Archive for January, 2010
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Earlier this month I saw this line art on Alvin Lee’s DA. At the time I thought how this would be good practice for me to color since I don’t often work with this style of art and it would require me to use techniques I don’t often use. Plus, I liked the idea of challenging myself to see if I could make it work.
Then I discovered that it was part of a contest through Capcom which meant that I was able to download the high res version of this. I did a little each day as a warm up and managed to finish it last night. So, I actually had time to submit it to the contest. Doubt it’ll get anywhere but I’m happy with what I did here.
The challenge with this type of “collage” composition is to make it so that its not visually confusing. With the set of characters on the top I was able to do the sort of thing I would do as if it was just a normal scene and have the characters in the background recede. However the bottom characters aren’t laid out with that same sort of logic so that was more challenging. I thought I had remedied that but now that I see it again this morning I wonder if its still a bit visually confusing.
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I wanted to experiment with my approach on Matthew Dow Smith’s line art in preparation for our next project together. This is one experiment. Its a similar approach to what I’ve done on his line art in the past but with just a bit more rendering.
I can’t decide if I like it or not. What does everyone think?
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I finished that Dr. Who deadline last night and this morning I felt the need to do something quick to refresh myself.
I decided to do a speed paint on 
’s Superboy. This was fun and simple. The style he used reminded me of “New Frontier” so that’s what I was imagining when I approached the colors.
Check out ’s original black and white here: [link]
Check out the speed paint video: [link]
This vid is set to the music of Doshino Sunset: [link]
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A cover for Doctor Who Classics series 3. With this series I’ve been experimenting with varying the colors I use for the interior of the TARDIS and going away from being literal with it. This cover is one example of that.
Line art by Robert Hack
Colors by me
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