Here's a pic of War Machine that I coloured for the guy who runs the Iron Man Armory. It was pencilled by Kevin Hopgood, another Iron Man artist.

That WM is awesome!

Thanks, Matthew

Here's the coloured version of a Batgirl sketch I did a while ago.

Your best work ever.

Thanks, Linda

My colouring of one of my Ultimate Vision sketches.

Looks great, Ian! And feel better! As one stuck at home---it sucks!

You shouldn't do that Ian. You're making me feel like an amateur.


Oh wait. I am.

Beautiful piece!

Thanks guys - here's my colouring over another of my sketches.

Ian, looking good, as always!

Thanks Mr Tomorrow

And more colouring over more of my sketches.

Wow. Great flames. Nice one.

Thanks, Matthew

This one is a bit unusual - it was a commission to colour this Mike Grell Green Lantern piece. And, to keep the pencil texture (especially on the energy of the ring recharging), I just did it as a pencils-to-colour job.

Now, the unusual part is in that energy - normally, I would have made it a bright colour. In fact, originally I had it as a bright green, with a much lighter background to make the green stand out. However, the client really wanted the energy to be in black (to better show the pencil texture, I suppose) and the background a bit darker.

Overall, I do like how it turned out. It is just different from how I originally envisioned it.

But, hey, the client gets what they want - they is payin' da bills

would you post the first version Ian?

Okay

I had been planning on doing a Work In Progress thread on colouring this image, but the thing was so damn big (it was painted at 11"x17", at 450dpi, and colouring over pencils always makes the file even bigger) that it was going to be a big hassle to keep saving a 'for web' version. So I didn't

If you are curious about this sorta thing, the final high-rez version that I sent to the client was around 80megs in size.

are you still planning to do an in progress on that Ancient One piece?

Both are nice, but I far and away prefer the first version (your original vision), it's much more dramatic!

Well, the more I think about it, the more I realize that it'll be pretty complex.

See, I really want to talk about how I included that 'star field' effect over the Ancient One himself. But, that was all done using Channels.

Channels are tricky to describe how to use - plus, a lot of folks who are using Photoshop aren't actually using Photoshop. Instead, they are using Photoshop LE (or one of those similar stripped-down versions), and most of those don't use Channels. So, it might not make any sense...

hmm...

I will probably still do it - I just have to think about how to approach it

Well, thanks

Fortunately it was very easy to change. The way I paint, most changes (aside from re-modeling stuff) are fairly simple.

Imagine the pain if you didn't work digitally!

That Mike Grell piece is great! Lately, I haven't liked many of his color pieces, mainly because his watercolors seemed so washed out.