Sijun Forums :: View topic - WHEW! Comic Coloring

Sc00p · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2000 9:23 pm

Okay, so I finished this tonight afterall :) Just my inked drawing colored in comic style coloring (or my attempt at it anyway). I'd love it if Liquid! could comment on this one, since their way of coloring is what I was trying to achieve:

Comments?

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Rene Antunes
www.nytro.org
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CapnPyro · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2000 11:42 pm

woo very very nice, i like the details and the textures you gave things

The proportions really weird on this guy.. looks good none the less

-Capn

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Chapel · member Member # Joined: 18 Mar 2000 Posts: 1930

That looks great sc00p. I think you got the coloring down pretty good. You might want to play around with using 2 different color light sources in the future. Makes things look more dynamic. Now go critique mine.. hehe.

Sc00p · Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2000 7:14 am

Yeah, I was gonna go back once I was finished and add a blue backlighting to everything. Last night around the 2 hour mark when I finished coloring this, I just wanted to post it and sit and watch some TV :)

Thanks for the comments guys

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Rene Antunes
www.nytro.org
[email protected]

Tinusch · Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2000 7:32 am

Coooool. That's great. I think it'd look awesome if you finished up the blue backlight, because that one arm that's backlit looks really good. Awesome job.

CeRbErO · Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2000 7:42 am

*drool*

That's all i can say

Great work.

BTW, nytro.org hasn't been working for a while...
Got a mirror URL somewhere?

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CeRbErO
www.cerberodesign.net

[This message has been edited by CeRbErO (edited October 22, 2000).]

Chapel · member Member # Joined: 18 Mar 2000 Posts: 1930

Sc00p: Have you ever done a background on your pics? I don't recall any of them having one.

Tinusch · Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2000 7:24 pm

Fanboy had a pretty cool background...

Sc00p · Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2000 7:33 pm

Yeah Chapel here's one:

[This message has been edited by Sc00p (edited October 22, 2000).]

EviLToYLeT · Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2000 8:18 pm

For the first pic, not sure if this might help, but I think the reason the porportions are a bit odd is you need a little bit more shading. Try shading the parts farther away darker. Simply add a mask and pant black adjust opacity. yadee yadee.

MaLoRuM · Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2000 10:11 pm

yep.... i'd have to say thats pretty damn nice. awesome work.

Only thing......

white guys can be Ninja's???

ohhhh yea thats right... i remember seeing that B movie "AMERICAN NINJA." Yea......

wow....

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Sc00p · Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2000 11:09 pm

Thanks guys.

I think I'm going to recolor most of this, except for the skin tones (which was my main purpose for attempting coloring again, since it gave me the most trouble, but now seems to be the stronger point of this coloring), and his right arm. When I have the time of course :)

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Rene Antunes
www.nytro.org
[email protected]

Sc00p · Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2000 11:10 pm

Oh, also, cerebro: nytro.org doesn't have a mirror and won't be up for quite some time. I'll be sure to spam the forum once it's complete :)

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Rene Antunes
www.nytro.org
[email protected]

Zaphod · Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2000 10:41 am

EviLToYLeY: OR, it might have to do with that the feets are bigger than the head?

Sc00p: Cool pic.

/Magnus

Sc00p · Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2000 5:23 pm

Katana:

Basically I pencil a drawing, then ink it, scan it in, then start laying down my base colors. Then, setting the gradient tool to "screen" mode, I choose a screen color and begin to add radial gradients to various selections I make with the lasso tools. All done in photoshop of course. Somewhere on this forum I have a huge 2-screen long step-by-step process I go through, but I'm having trouble locating it at the moment :)

When my site's back up, I'm sure to include this as a how-to, once I'm settled in.

NOTE: It is a LOT more than all this, but this quickly is how I do it anyway, not to say its the proper one.

Anyway, thanks again for the comments everyone :)

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Rene Antunes
www.nytro.org
[email protected]

CapnPyro · Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2000 5:41 pm

great coloring on that 2nd one as well. you tend to go a *tad* over board on the special effects, looks really good however. Get your site working! I want to see your tutorial

-Capn

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http://home1.gte.net/capnpyro

Katana · Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2000 11:11 pm

Very Very Cool. Looks like you have got it down. Humor me for a minute and simply explain the process. I have always been a sketcher and not very skilled at color.

tzekin · Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2000 11:12 pm

Hi, I think this Ninja guy is really cool. great work. Liquid! is a great professional but don't try to achieve what he has done try to achieve more :-) Because you can!

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