Thursday, December 12, 2013

The challenges of digital coloring


Here's some of the latest fan art by Dann Phillips that recently showed up on deviant art. I usually only like to color art work that primarily consists of bold and fine line work on a white back ground. Fan art that consists of heavy shading in multiple darkness to lightness values represent a lot of coloring challenges that can make what normally would take me well under an hour to taking me half the day to do.
But on a whim in between breakfast, listening to the news and working out I tried something new out on this piece. Of course I used photoshop to do this in so I'll put it in Laymens terms. Basically, it deals with making multiple copies of the entire art piece and assigning an individual color swatch to each one. Then you just lay them all on top of each other and remove what you don't want from each one until the full picture appears. And then there was a little touch up work done using the more common photoshop features like the air brush and color fill tools.
I may end up tweaking it some more over the next couple of days but for now I'll post how it came out initially.You may notice that the this new coloring method doesn't produce the more vibrant colors as seen with the type of fan art I more typically color. The U-Foes coloring job from a few postings back is a good example that. Never the less it's always good to expand your horizons a bit from time to time.


When it comes to the well fare of your children trust no one other the greatest of the spaceknights to get the job done.

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Just a little something for shits n giggles I whipped up in photoshop and decided to throw in here as an after thought. I'm sure the inspiration for this is pretty obvious.

11 comments:

  1. I dont even know what to say man, except of course,thank you.

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  2. ok I'm back from being choked up,..
    Excellent coloring job! Wow man,Torpedo and the gang look great! Shlomo man, I know I've said this before but thank you again for creating this amazing community, and thank you all for accepting me as one of you. I can't tell you how great it feels to be a part of this. Bill Mantlo has Starshine, Joseph and son have ROM, and our buddy Mark has,..well, everything else! I never thought that this blog would do so much for my art and for me personally. I just want you all to know how much I appreciate you guys. Happy Holidays my friends.
    Chris-

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    1. We love you too, Chris! I'm glad you found us. :) Merry Christmas!

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  3. So now I know who to send all my stuff to for brushwork. ;)

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  4. That looks great! Turbo especially looks very Stuart Immonen like.

    Awesome job from both of you guys!

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  5. Awesome color job on that turbo. I like it and the tone its has.awesome pic of my boy next to that rom pannel Very cool.

    Thanks again a million chris.not just for the rom but all the great work you share here.

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  6. no need to thank me folks it's lot's of fun for me too. also, while Brock was wearing the suit he was known as The Torpedo. but for what it's worth, the words Turbo and Torpedo are 2 syllable words and both start with the letter "t" and end with an "o".

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    1. My infinite auto fill errors on my mobile . Smarter phones stupid people.yes of cousse torpedo.

      The team up of buzz lightyear is pretty neat .

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  7. Now That's what I'm talking about truly stunning!

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  8. To Limbo and beyond with all dire wraith scum!

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  9. Great work on the digital coloring job Shlomo! Torpedo looks fabulous. Love the toy story team-up too :)

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