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Sc00p · Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2000 9:24 pm

Just another comic-style pic I did this morning. Here's a tiny version of the ink I did, and the finished product. Please let me know what you all think, your opinion matters a lot:

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Rene Antunes
www.nytro.org
[email protected]

chrisk82 · member Member # Joined: 16 Jan 2000 Posts: 91 Location: CO

Very nice! The coloring job is awesome.

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Chris Konchalski

immi · Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2000 9:54 pm

yeah, i agree. you've definately got the style down to a tee. great job

Mongoose · Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2000 3:58 am

You own me

CeRbErO · Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2000 5:38 am

Wanna color like you do...

fragamite · Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2000 5:46 am

oooh.. very stylish.. would look even better if you vectorize the lines with illustrator or something

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LeChuck · Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2000 5:55 am

That's some bad ass coloring. I love the relections

Count Zero · Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2000 7:12 am

Now that's a big-ass gun.

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Wildkat · Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2000 8:37 am

Great pic.... and I love that background..very striking...

Jess · Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2000 8:59 am

This is great, I love the shoes, the gloves, the watch, the clouds, the sun beams.... well, everything. The charector is so cute.... he looks like he's comptemplating something...

Sc00p · Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2000 3:19 pm

Contemplating eh?

Possibly world domination Jess, possibly world domination

Go fanboys

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Rene Antunes
www.nytro.org
[email protected]

imdaking · Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2000 5:06 pm

That is terrific scoop

Mind telling us how you went about the coloring?

I can see you used a very comic style...

Laying down some base colors and then applying others on top, *i think*

but maybe some in depth coverage!! PLEASE!!

Thanks!!

Sc00p · Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2000 5:36 pm

Well, I will be going into some very deep coverage whenever I get around to finishing the tutorial for my site, but here's a little step-by-step, sans-visual aid, inside look into my method (which by the way is probably not how the pros do it):

---DONE IN PHOTOSHOP 4---

1. Sketch, this is a must. Pencil, as sketchy as you want (unless you're a tablet user, then skip steps 1, 2 and 3)

2. Ink the drawing by using tracing paper, or use an animation light table (I recommend a .5pt pen, which is half a point thick). You're going for clean line, this is a comic drawing/coloring, not a painting (save painting skills for backgrounds in comics). You can't possibly color on top of pencil, it just doesn't work, and it throws off the whole reason for using "multiply" later on.
After you ink, outline the drawing with a thicker point size pen (I have an 8pt pen).

3. Scan in the ink and in photoshop, and get rid of any grey area because tracing paper tends to scan in grey instead of perfectly white. (Just goto select/color range and click on the paper color, then fill it with white).

4. Create a new layer called GRADIENTS and set the layer mode to 'multiply'. Now the long part. Go back to your line drawing layer and use the wand (or zoom in and use the lasso) to select a certain part you want to color, then select/modify/expand 1 pixel, so you don't get a nasty white line after filling with a gradient. Now goto your GRADIENTS layer and use your airbrush (set to a very LARGE brush size) or use the linear/radial gradient tools and make nice gradients of color, any colors you want, whatever you think looks good. I prefer vibrant colors (yes even when they're dark vibrant colors, it's possible), but that's because I'm big into comic coloring and you may be a pastel person, that's totally your call here. You should now have a bunch of nice base gradients and your picture should look semi complete, however still plain.

5. Now while still on this GRADIENT LAYER, what you do here is tricky, and it's really the colors you choose that determine how cool this comes out. Take the lasso and select various shapes, and draw your own, like creases in clothes. Now fill that with another gradient, either airbrush or gradient tool. White usually works fine 8 times out of 10, but sometimes you will want to find a lighter color, slightly lighter than the base gradient that you put down underneath (note: the glove on the fanboy pic. It's a light tan gradient over a dark brown one put there before, but selected slightly inside, and its a nice lighter color (its not white, but works even better).
So keep doing this 'cut-style' throughout the whole image until you hopefully see shapes like the fanboy pic. (Sorry, that pic is the only visual reference I have at this time).

6. I hope I didn't lose you thus far

Now that you have a cool-looking, near-complete drawing, make a new layer called SCREENS, and set the layer mode to 'screen'. This effect is obvious once you try it. Just take an airbrush and dab some "glows" around where you want things to look metallic, or reflective. Note the heavy use of yellow and blue glows on the fanboy pic.

7. Make another mode called "DODGE" and set it to 'color dodge' mode and dab w/ airbrush on things you want to be EXTREMELY bright. You don't want anything too over exposed, so only use it if necessary. In this pic, it is most heavily used as the sun in the background and on the fanboy's pants. NOTE: You may have to make several of these color dodge layers as they effect everything UNDERNEATH it, and nothing more, so you may want it in certain spots in your layer heirarchy so you can do it to just certain areas (ie: color dodge behind the character, and also color dodge in front...hence two dodge layers were used in my fanboy pic).

8. Paint a nice background. Most comic backgrounds are painted, and painted well. I'm not sure if I'm the authoritative figure on this, since I'm not the best realist painter, but I tried. The red sky on the fanboy image was done with some well-chosen colors and the smudge tool, nothing more.

9. Sign your name on it, and relax, you've finished the picture. This may be followed by several caffeine fits, as you've probably had 5 pots of coffee by now from either reading this lengthy post or from spending a lot of time learning to comic color. Hopefully its from both

GOOD LUCK, whew, I hope this helps

PS: I will let everyone know when the actual tutorial is up on my site.

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Rene Antunes
www.nytro.org
[email protected]

klash · junior member Member # Joined: 18 Jan 2000 Posts: 1

Damn nice work Sc00p! Keep it up! C u in #photoshop on Dalnet!

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-=Regulator=- · Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2000 9:58 pm

This is awesome!!!
Can you write some kind of tutorial on how to draw this comic style? And how to make shades!!!

Sc00p · Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2000 7:14 am

-=Regulator=-

I sure can, and I will, as soon as the layout for my new site is done. Currently my webpage is http://www.nytro.org but that look is old, and I'm tired of it, so I'm completely redoing my site with new content. Drawing/coloring tutorials, other photoshop tutorials, weekly comic strip, yadda yadda. Uhm...it'll just be fun

I hope to get it finished within the next couple months, because school and working is really taking up a lot of my time

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Rene Antunes
www.nytro.org
[email protected]

Blind · Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2000 8:04 am

Great pic, Sc00p. Very nice work. The colors are awesome. And thanks for posting the step-by-step. It's so helpful to newbies like myself to read about others methods, no matter what the style. Thanks...

But, I can't get through to your site. Is it down?

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- Blind

Sc00p · Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2000 8:09 am

Sigh..yes it's down. The server it's sitting on is being upgraded. It was to be up about 2 days ago, but it's taking longer than expected I suppose. Hopefully it will be up within a week's time at the MOST, so I'm crossing my fingers.

PS: This isn't the new layout coming up, but the site that was there before it went down a week ago.

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Rene Antunes
www.nytro.org
[email protected]

LuCiD · Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2000 9:10 am

tbh im not usualy into comic style work, but this picture is fantastic, you seem to really enjoy creating it aswell which is also great. Keep up the good work, i hope to see more of your stuff soon

n8 · Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2000 3:38 am

hmm??...U RULE!!...thats syko shit...seems like everyone likes it...keepem comin!

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Woo0boggyboggy!!

Darkmoon · Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2000 7:18 pm

Sc00p, you know you rule, take the gun away from my head please, help, someone help me hes gone mad! he thinks his art is mediocre! hes going on a postal spree! im next! quick everyone tll him how much he rulez! we must feed the ego! help! help!

you know it rulez, the only thing i dont like aree the red beams comming outta the sky.
*BLAM*

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