No. 49 Colour Rough
I tried to get more ambitious this week and found myself short of time while colouring the strip. So as a treat, you get to see a rough version of the strip with very basic colour and text laid down. I can usually sketch and ink the drawing pretty quick once I have the layout and idea in my mind as to what I want that week. The colouring is what takes most of my time. I think I tend to lay it down differently than most webcomic folks. I don’t use the lasso or paint bucket or fills that come with Photoshop or Manga Studio 5. I basically paint everything in as I would if I were using an actual brush. I try to come up with a simple and effective colour scheme as you see I tried in this weeks strip. Once I come up with that, I lay in all the colours in layers; background first, then flats for the characters and objects, then shadows, then light and highlights and any special effects that I might have in that weeks episode. Anyway, here is the rough colour sketch for this week. I will be finishing up within the week, so stay tuned. I’ll let you know when I’m done. Have a good week, everyone – Jim
I kinda like the feel the colour rough gives the page. Kinda like what you would get out of an old Pulp Adventure comic from the ’30s.
I kinda like the rough look of it as well, balthazar. That’s why I didn’t have many qualms about letting it go out like this. And you’re right, it reminds me of the art that you’d find in the old pulp magazines, with wide swatches of one or two colours thrown in to make it pop.