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This piece was penciled by David Williams and inked by Art Adams. I just did the colors.Related content
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You got a fan right here! I wish we can work together someday!!! @_@
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"I just did the colors."?! What the hell are you talking about? Your work is great, as important to the final image as the pencil or the ink. So forget about the "just". Be proud of your fine art.
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Thats the most phenomenal coloring job ive ever seen!
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Superb piece, the lines are flawless, inks are greatly done, and colors suck but oh well
seriously youΒ΄re one of my favs colorist of all time!
AWESOME!YOU!
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Yeah, you outdid yourself on this one man! I read in the other post how you did the sky. What a great idea! It really works. All of this crazy lighting works! I'm in awe.
I especially like the lil' touches, like the texture on the cathedral and how you did the highlights on Wolfman's fur. And that you put color holds on individual limbs and characters to make 'em pop out. It give it all such a great sense of depth.
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DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAMN!
k.
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dude. your colors complement the lines perfectly! great job!
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Yep definitely buying this if it becomes a poster...wow...
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Wow! That's fantastic. The best Universe there is. The colors are excellent! It pulls you from left to right with day to night. I would hang this on my wall.
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...just the colors he says... Awesome piece! I think it would've been cool of David to have snuck in a zombie somewhere, though... You know, tie in ALL of his Image books.
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great color work, was this done in corel or photoshop?
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I like it. Kudos to Kelsey, Davey D, and everybody concerned.
But---
If this is a wraparound cover design, I think the guy in the middle is in for an awkward bend. lol
And, sorry to be fussy, but ya can't have a sunset together with a full moon like that. This makes for a pleasing visual in the abstract sense, but once you aim more toward the realistic, errors like this become glaring and unsettling to kooks like me.
Of course, one could say this is the desired effect. But there's definitely a "disconnect" here between dynamic comic-book reality, and whimsical fantasy imagery.
Another example would be how the dramatic underlighting shows up on the werewolf, but as he passes in front of the other character, there's no hint of a shadow. This is the sort of "isolation" that surfaces in digital photo-composites, whereby the subjects don't effectively relate to each other on the same plane.
Again, I'm just being fussy, and artistic license forgives much, doesn't it?
Please don't hit me.
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It's not a sunset...It's an explosion.
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Ahhhhh shaddup. Nobody asked ya.
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Man, you need to get out more. You've never seen the sun and moon in the same sky? It happens. Granted I have taken some artistic liberties to enhance the drama, but this is a phenomenon that is very real.
In regards to the lighting on Wolfman, where would you have me put a cast shadow? I thought the giant black shadow on Brits leg did the trick.
"dynamic comic-book reality, and whimsical fantasy imagery"
Uh....Those are pretty much the same thing dude. Other than one has horses and swords and the other has tights, they are in the same class as fantasy. Wait a minute...they BOTH have tights. So there!
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I DO need to get out more, but that's beside the point. lol
Depending on the precise angle of the light source from below, yes, you can get away with things as is on the lycanthrope and soldier-dude.
Comic-book "reality" and whimsical fantasy are not the same things, at least not in the way I'm referring, although they can and do overlap.
In whimsical fantasies, you rarely bat an eye at rivers of gold, psychedelic horses, or talking blue mountains. But comic-book reality is often grounded in some resemblance of urban grit for a backdrop, and outside of the requisite superpowered heroes and villains, it generally abides by common scientific fact found in the real world. This helps provide a suitable base reference for the incredible drama. As such, you wouldn't have a moon in full phase at the angle depicted in conjunction with a sunset. Can't happen.
The moon reflects light from the sun, so at this angle you'd get more of a crescent moon, or half moon at best. With a full moon, the sun must be farther behind the Earth, having already set.
Take it easy, Kelsey. I'm just messin' with ya.
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A great lesson to be learned here!! Beautiful!!!
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This is really nice. You care if I use it for my screensaver?
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you have to pay royalties to David, Art, Kirkman, and me.
Oh, ok. Just this once.
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LOL Wish I had the kind of money you guys deserve. Thanks for the cool pic. Makes my computer look nice.
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Brilliant piece!! But only you, Williams and Adams? Couldn't you fit one more genius in somewhere?
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I said it before and I'll say it again - outstanding!
I really, really like this piece.
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I knew instantly that brohawk did the pencils!
good show from all of you!
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I'm kinda curious how your colour theory works, because it reminds of the fact that Brian Stelfreeze has his own colour theory as well. But that makes no sense. There should only be ONE Universal colour science, not three...
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Well, Brian is a color master. He schooled me in the ways of color many moons ago. I don't have the patience to do it exactly the way youβre supposed too, but I know enough now to fudge.
What youβre seeing isn't different color theories, your seeing applied theory. Just like there are certain methods to traditional inking, but every inker develops their own way of using it, same with color or anything really. It's just personnel taste.
I'm criticized a lot for being too monochromatic, but it's the way I see things. I look at coloring as lighting. Some people don't seem to understand that yellow or green or blue isn't the color you think it is. It changes constantly due to light. In warm light, cool light, black light, what ever light, that color will change slightly. It's called color balancing. There's even a tool for it in Photoshop.
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One question though: Is the sky all you or was that David and his China Marker?
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I used watercolors on rough paper to get all the cloud effects. It's the first time I made my own texture. It was fun and I'll probably do more when time permits.
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I thought it was a particularly nice touch and it didn't distract from the line work at all...
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"I just did the colors."
Scratch that. You "just breathed life into it."
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Yea...because the art was DEAD without him right?
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One question fro you, David: Was the Astounding Werewolf character applied at a later point?
It looks like there's a bit of a disconnect there... maybe I'm looking too hard...
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Don't be like that. You know what I mean.
Besides, most of the time I'm so far up your butt I should be checking for polyps!
I just don't want K-dog to devalue his contribution...
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Well, that's what everyone's been sayin'
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Everybody has been sayin that?
Only a few knuckle heads we know said that..
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whoa, this would make a kick ass poster... i really like the day to night transition. good job!
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