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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1 Comment so far

  1. Sandy on November 27th, 2008

    Holy Crap! You never told me you draw! all of sudden i feel i don’t know you at all…. i feel i’m so insignificant… and…. speechless…. i don’t think i should call myself some sort of artist anymore… gosh… what else do you do? I’ll have to hold my jaw…

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