I was asked to color this exclusive cover for Zenescope’s Kickstarter campaign. I guess it is going to be used on only 250 copies of Grimm Fairy Tales: Myths & Legends #18 as an incentive reward to larger contributors to the Kickstarter thing. I don’t know much about that stuff, though. I just color.
I thought this cover would be a good one to use for recording my process, too. Normally, when I post them to YouTube, I speed them up, but this one I kept actual speed. That’s how I like to watch others work, so I can really see what they are doing and how quick they do it, so that’s why I did it this time. I’d love to do a commentary, but I just don’t have the time. Someday…
Anyhow, here’s the cover with awesome lines by Jamal Igle and a link to the video. It’s 3.5 hours long and available to watch at up to the full res of my Cintiq (1600×1200) so you can watch as if you were looking over my shoulder. Thanks for checking it out.
I should be working on paying stuff, but dammit, it’s my birthday and everyone’s in bed here, so I’m doing what I want. Saw this drawing by Steev on Ten Ton and used it to play with some color theory stuff. Might as well share.
I had a request from a member of Ten Ton forum to do another video painting over someone’s lines. I selected a Khoi Pham Beta Ray Bill sketch and gave it a quick sketch paint treatment. Video is sped up 4x actual speed since I assume you don’t need too much detail on this sketchy thing.
Khoi Pham posted the high res lines for this over on the Ten Ton message boards. I just wrapped colors on my part of Zenescope’s Alice #5 and I have Emerald City ComiCon this weekend, so I didn’t feel like doing any heavy color work. However, I can’t resist working over Khoi’s lines, especially when he’s doing a Mignola-esque thing. Considering the lines, I couldn’t help but throw down some Dave Stewart style colors. I’m no Dave, but it helped me branch out from my more painterly stuff I’ve been doing lately.
Ron Randall had asked me to color up this promo image for the upcoming (Sept. 8/9, 2012) Rose City Comic Con. It’s a new show that we in the Portland area hope grows into an Emerald City ComiCon-like event. This will be used in promotional materials, but not sure where it will show up yet.
For those who don’t know, it’s Mercy St.Clair–a futuristic bounty hunter (Trekker) from Ron’s series of comics spanning the last 20 years. The original tales are being uploaded at a rate of 3 pages a week, with new (color!) material in the works. Right now he has the first six+ issues up at www.trekkercomic.com. Check it out.
I don’t remember where I got the lines of this, but it’s by Jimmy Cheung (pencils) and John Dell (inks). Captain America versus Iron Man for a two part cover during the whole Civil War storyline a few years (really? Years already?). This version of the cover had Cap winning, the other had Iron Man winning.
Did an even more complicated and labor intensive process on this. The previous technique I was using to color of grayscale had some flaws that made me have a lot more trial and error to get it right. This new way is more likely to get the results I want, but will take some time to streamline into a useful method.
Again, thanks to Matthew Clark for the excellent pencils.
A while ago, longer than I care to remember, I was hanging out at the Periscope Studio with Matthew Clark. At the time I was pursuing inking and he was generous enough to let me snag some scans of his work for practice. Fast forward, and now I’m coloring and doing concept work. Found this on my hard drive and thought it would make a good experiment piece. At this stage it’s part line, part paint. Next is to take it all the way to grayscale paint, then color.
After crits and self reflection, I decided to revise this cover. Basically, it lacked unification as C.P. Wilson III observed on the Ten Ton message board. I agree. In my typical fashion, if I make a change I go the complete other direction, so now it’s very unified, but less accurate. Some day I’ll find a balance!
