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Published: 2007-04-16 16:26:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 19586; Favourites: 379; Downloads: 460
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I know I haven't uploaded anything in quite a while, and that's mainly because I haven't done anything. At least nothing that I can or would want to show. But lately, I've been getting back into doing warmup coloring, aka just taking random sketches off the web and coloring them for the hell of it. I find that it's definitely important to do art just for fun every now and then, so that it doesn't turn into a boring job routine (which kills the motivation for me).Also it's a great way to just try shit out and experiment. I still think I'm way too slow so I'm trying to up my speed as well, which up to now I haven't succeeded in doing (these were all between 1 and 2 hours each).
So yeah, I didn't feel like uploading every piece individually here, so I just put them all into one piece. If you want to take a look at a bigger version (which I kind of recommend since none of these have anything to do with each other, and should actually stand alone) then check this [link] .
CREDIT FOR THE PENCILS:
-the Hulk: Keron Grant
-Ping Pong Gabe: Mike Krahulik [link]
-Afro Samurai: SaintChase
-little guitar girl: Kazuya Mochu (couldn't find a website?!)
-everything else, aka Leon design, Venom, and twice Philly the Kid: LeSean Thomas
SOFTWARE:
Photoshop CS.
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Comments: 158
warm up coloring ? i hate you !
but hate is good, isnt it ? no really, your art is astonishing !
and that ping pong guy...isnt it Gabe from penny-arcade ?
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Yeah that's Gabe from Penny Arcade.
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the lighting on the ping-pong one is fantastic!!
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your work is amazing man!!
i love the characters..
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you, sir, are absolutely a MONSTER!
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YOOOO, can i get that shot of my AFRO? a bigger one, i just nutted on myself man.....whoa...
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Here you go: [link] !
But the colors look better in small, hahaha. Glad you're digging it man!
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Psh....diggin em, man....thats not even the word for it.
thanks for the speedy response.
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sach mal das ist fuer dich "nur WARMUP COLORING"?
sehr sehr schoen...fΓΌr mich ist das schon THE TOP
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your facking sick man
keep getting better and i might have to cut your hands off
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But I need those hands!
Haha, thanks man.
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You and Lesean produce the best collab ever!
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I am forever baffled at your magic powers. What you do with colors surpasses some of the greatest people who use pencils. Seriously, if there were a book out with terrible writing and shite art, but YOU colored it. I'd still pick it up.
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What if I were to tell you that there will be a book with not terrible writing and definitely not shite pencils but also colored by me, would you pick that up?
Hahaha, sorry, had to run a little promotion here. Thanks for the compliments dude, much appreciated!
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I honestly don't know how you do it (as far as colouring goes).
I wish I did!! I get far more frustrated colouring than I do drawing.
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Yah for me it was just a bunch of trial and error. If you keep practicing you'll figure it out as you go along. I find learning how to draw properly much more difficult.
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wish i could color that good.. that afro samurai is off the chain, i really like the ping pong kid too.. and you call these warm ups
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Awesome variation in color and lighting style. My favorite is that pastely one down in the bottom left corner. To think you can pull that many different coloring techniques from Photoshop.... I'm starting to pick that up myself.
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damn, all of this was done in CS? Do you use a tablet or wacom or something similar? I can never color faster than a whole day for a piece like anything you've done..... they all look like finished pieces. whats your process?
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I use a Wacom Intuos 2 at home, and an Intuos 3 at the studio where I intern. And yeah, done in CS.
Here's a quick break down of the process on these:
I just set the layer with the line-art to multiply, then I dropped a solid color underneath that layer and put some very rough color washes on that same layer (underneath the lineart). Just really rough brush strokes to sort of block out shapes. Kind of like flat colors, but I didn't take the time to really give each area it's own color - that was all done really roughly just to give me an idea of what the mood could be. Then I made a new layer above the lineart and started putting in all the details and the rendering. Usually zooming in pretty close and using very small brushes. I also added a sort of grain to the images with the noise filter. On the Hulk piece I used some textures as well. And that's basically it.
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i kinda figured that might be how you did it, but the first part I didn't guess with the flats under and the details over the line art..... I need to get me a tablet to color..... everything i learn i do so late it's annoying. I am trying though.....
[yea I do everything with a mouse
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Hey can we get a higher res of the Cannon Busters stuff? I'd love to see that up closer.
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Sorry to say, I don't have any higher res version anymore. When I colored them I upped the resolution to 300 dpi, but I didn't save those versions. I just saved the final ones, which were reduced back to 72. I don't know if you checked the link in the image description, but that's the largest those pieces are.
I still have higher res of the Hulk and the Afro Samurai though (those were the last two I did, and only then did it occur to me to keep the high res), if you're interested in those I can send them your way or something.
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Ahh - so sorry man, I did the jerk thing and read the first two paragraphs and missed the link. Thanks chief! I always enjoy the pieces!
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Coming from you that sounds really charming.
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awesome colouring, the mood of each one is just brilliant.
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I'd be proud to do that kind of stuff in two hours. My coloring quality is twice the time and possibly an eighth the quality. That's why I just stick with drawing.
Very cool stuff.
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Umm, yeah its stuff like this that solidifies you as my favortie colorist EVER! I got an email full of random sketches that i will be send to you later on today, AMAZING SUFF MONK! One day i will have enough money to buy you for my HIM series, ONE DAY!lol!
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You know I'll be waiting for those sketches dude, and everything else you ever decide to drop. Yeah I swear as well, one day we'll get together on something exciting again.
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^^ I likes excellent work here!
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what da hell?!....yo, ya skill is outstandin' man....keep up the hotness
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Glad to see you posting again! You aren't allowed to take so long in between updates. 
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Well there isn't really one true focus, none of these images are supposed to be working together, I was just too lazy to upload them individually, haha. Thanks for the comment!
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