[Alex]UPDATED FINAL COVER.
Details, details--used some smoke and dust particles to help separate Supes from the foreground. To finish it off, I added the beams of light coming thru Superman which accentuate his blacks and gave the piece a nice intensity.
Click Save and cross my fingers as I send a JPEG off for approval!
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This is all too good to believe. Thanks for the insight regarding color Alex. Your stuff is SPECTACULAR!
Hey Alex, we meet at the con , this help s break it down easier and makes more sense, thxs for posting it's helpfull.
Glad you guys like it! Thank you for the kind posts and to Eddy CHoi for helping me get this on the Blog.
Alex-
hey, as a fellow sequential arts guy, I really appreciate the time you guys put into this blog. I come here looking forward to any lessons that I can learn. Thanks for all the tips, it has helped me out in more ways than I can count.
thanks,
Tyler "TheDeafGuy" Niccum
You ROCK. I hate you. But you know that really means I love you. It's gorgeous.
Alex, that is wonderful work. Glad you posted the colors to this. It was great seeing how Sandra approached the inks, but to see those beautiful inks turned into this was awesome.
OMG!! Now Alex Sinclair! :D
Thanks for the step-by-step, sir. As well as full disclosure of tools/weapons! Gorgeous work as always!
If you're still around, any book recommendations or resources on the history of digital coloring (in comics)? I know you're the man to go to for this type o' thing. Thanks!
Peace...
Chris is right. Chiarello's (aka color master extraordinaire) DC Comics Guide to Coloring and Lettering Comics is by far the best book out there that shows how to color comics. It gives a quick review of how coloring was done as well. I would also look at color theory books. My favorite is "The Elements of Color" by Itten. I also like to buy interior design books--those folks show color combinations that you would never guess would look good.
Alex-
Right on! Many thanks, Chris and Alex! :]
*off to find the books*
Peace...
Okay, so this question came up to myself while I was writing a fanboyish post in my livejournal about things WildStormish... but seriously, why are the best computer colorists in this little industry all from WildStorm? What did you guys do? There's Laura Martin, there's YOU, Mr. Sinclair, there's Jessica Ruffner-Booth, and a bunch more that I'm forgetting, and all of you color in such drastically different ways, but all of it makes everything else being done in comes look... almost amatuerish. The only non-WildStorm computer colorist that I can name off the top of my head whose work I thought was absolutely amazing is Brian Haberlin -- well, and Masamune Shirow, but he doesn't count.
Marvin,
The coloring comic books the DC way covers all that stuff in detail. Here's some quick answers. 1)I place the line art on a separate alpha channel to avoid affecting it with the color.2)I use the lasso and wand tool to select/mask object to color.3)I work at 11"x17" and 450 DPI. I recommend getting Chiarello's book for more answers.
Alex-
damn! your work is amazing
Chiarello's book is SERIOUSLY AWESOME. I have it in front of me right now.
Frankly, it was more straightforward than HALF MY CLASSES. (Graphics student. Good times.)
Wicked stuff. I love the palette and sense of three-dimensionality. Plus the colour holds work really well. I'm still scared of colour holds.
To summarize: awesome.
You guys are on the cutting edge!! DC comics made probably the smartest move in comics when they bought WS. You guys are simply the best...Alex...I am speachless. So long as you guys keep the same attitude of working with the best instead of against them, you will always be on top.
Amazing illustration, and thanks for sharing the different version and technique!
Your work has seriously enhanced the quality of the picture....Great Job! Nice lighting and cast shadows!
very nice alex! you should really consider doing this stuff for a living someday.
plus with your skills, i think you'd have no problem jugglin a book or two every month, easily.
here's hoping you get to do more intersting work than these entry level submissions seen here.
keep up the fantastic work!
Thanks to everyone for all their compliments! I am glad you enjoyed these posts.
And you Dustin, I was wondering when you would show up and rain on my parade. My real estate agent mentioned he found a nice shack for you in TJ. :D
Sinc'
man, what are you talking about!? those were all valid compliments...
so yeah.. TJ, huh? i'm there! that's right down the street from WS studios right?
I think it looks really cool. its so cool how you show the different stages you go throught to get the finished piece, it must help a lot of people seeing what is involved in the business of inking and colouring. hopefully one day I'll get my stuff inked and coloured by pros like you guys and gals.
Jon
Amazing!!! Sometimes you just have to marvel at what a program like photoshop can do in the hand of true experts like Alex.
As an artist you usually only see a glimbs of what you can do. Looking at this, I truely wish I was that capable right now.
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