Archive for October, 2008

Colour tests

Having no artsy fartsy background, it’s really hard for me to figure out how to go about colouring in drawings. I’m always trying to refine the way I colour in my scans because my process feels really slow. I did a couple of photoshop tests – 2 layer (ink + paint) on the left and 1 layer (ink + paint on the same layer) on the right. Both seem to have their own look which also took around the same time to do (roughly an hour or so). I found doing everything on one layer gives a more pleasing, painterly feel but a real pain to do major refinements. Having the ‘ink’ on the a seperate layer sort of gave me a good sense of security but I have no idea how to go about cleaning up lines in a way that wont drive me insane. It also got a little confusing which layer I was working on at times.

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