Happy Holidays!
Terry
Sunday, December 24, 2017
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
Old Man Jack, Uncanny Avengers, Generation X and Bombshells United all out today! Woof!
A bunch of our new covers are out in stores today!
For the person who has everything on you shopping list ;-)
Saturday, December 9, 2017
Star Wars #38 Step by Step Part 3 Color
Our variant cover for Star Wars #38 - out now from Marvel Comics - a chance to draw Luke and Leia and X-Wings and Jedha!
Check out how we made it.
PART 3
COLOR
FLATS
The first stage of color is called flats - flatting allows me to choose an area to color at any point throughout the coloring process.
I try to adjust the colors to their medium value or imprimatura - I use this as the starting point for the piece.
INITIAL COLOR (ROUGH IN)
I colored this on my Cintiq 22 HD using Photoshop CS3 .
I rough in quickly all the medium lights and darks on the figures and cast initial shadows.
Using the Pencil Tool (Hard Round pixel Brush) at 100% to to begin and then switch to lower 30-50% to get the right value of color for the next stages of rendering.
RIM LIGHT, GRADIENT, ROSY CHEEKS
On layers above the initial rough in -
LAYER 1 - Used the Gradient tool to fade out the background
LAYER 2 - I added Rosy cheeks to Leia and rounded out her face referencing photos from Empire
Strikes Back
LAYER 3 - I added the yellow rim light to Luke using the Pencils tool at 100%
COLORING THE LINE ART
This is the icing on the cake step of the process.
I just started working on Luke here...
I colored a lot of the characters black lines, notice the lips, flesh outline and the rocks and clouds in the background.
Fun stuff!
ALMOST FINAL
The colors I submitted to Marvel, editor Heather Antos had me light the background behind Luke...
FINAL COLOR
Great suggestion, Heather!
PART 1