Archive for January, 2017
Sara’s working extra hard for that interview.
Agent Carter saluting the real masterrace, and this one doesn’t need a secret superpower formula to become big! 
Those wardrobe malfunctions can be killer!
Principle Rogers never misses an opportunity.
Beautiful melons on display at the fruit stand…
I’ve colored comics for over a decade and I’m always trying to figure out and/or test new ways to color lineart. I’ve seen artists start in B&W and do a myriad of techniques and generally I’m too lazy to try these techniques outside of sketching. In the last Ms. Cross page I painted, I decided to isolate the shadows on the entire page.
Usually when I color comics, I “flat” the comics using a flat color and then I add shadows and highlights. For a while I had been considering isolating the shadows to see how things would come out.
What I did here is I put a layer of 100% white above the flat colors. On a separate layer I used two colors (one lighter one darker) for shadows. Once I finished chizel in the shadows, I set the the layer to multiply and removed the white layer.
Here’s the finished image. Once I add the shadow layer and a few lighlights the image is done. It took longer for me to color this way but I do like the result. Coloring this way kept me 100% focused on the shadows and I like that part. If you try it, let me know if you like it.
-Moose
Meanwhile, the search for the Con-goers continues!