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Ian Sokoliwski
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Post subject: Colouring Doctor Strange - Step by Step Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 3:44 pm |
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Ian Sokoliwski
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Post subject: Colouring Doctor Strange - Step by Step Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 3:46 pm |
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Here, I've laid down some flat colours. These won't be the final colours, but are just 'placeholder' colours so I can easily select the areas I want to colour. I'm toying around with making the background warm (based on Dormammu's flaming head), skewing the foreground to a cool colour. 
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Ian Sokoliwski
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Post subject: Colouring Doctor Strange - Step by Step Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 5:00 pm |
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Ian Sokoliwski
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Post subject: Colouring Doctor Strange - Step by Step Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 5:39 pm |
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Ian Sokoliwski
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Post subject: Colouring Doctor Strange - Step by Step Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 9:16 pm |
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Energy effects and more background stuff. Still being tweaked, but I finally like how the background is coming together. I knew it would be tricky working with multiple overlapping energy/mystic effects like this, especially with flamey-head-guy back there. 
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Ian Sokoliwski
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Post subject: Colouring Doctor Strange - Step by Step Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 9:45 pm |
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Ian Sokoliwski
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Post subject: Colouring Doctor Strange - Step by Step Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 10:34 pm |
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Clea and the Ancient One. In the original wraparound cover for this piece, the Ancient One was wearing a red outfit. Since he's right behind Doc's cape, however, I decided to go with a green outfit, one that I've painted him in before. Also, I've added a blue side-light to Clea, to pull her further into the foreground and give her a bit more mass. 
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Ian Sokoliwski
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Post subject: Colouring Doctor Strange - Step by Step Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 11:14 pm |
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Ian Sokoliwski
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Post subject: Colouring Doctor Strange - Step by Step Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 11:51 pm |
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Post subject: Colouring Doctor Strange - Step by Step Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 6:19 pm |
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Post subject: Colouring Doctor Strange - Step by Step Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 6:50 pm |
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Pope Krysak
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Post subject: Colouring Doctor Strange - Step by Step Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 9:15 am |
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Excellent work as always, Ian.
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Post subject: Colouring Doctor Strange - Step by Step Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 9:26 am |
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Post subject: Colouring Doctor Strange - Step by Step Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 11:00 am |
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Post subject: Colouring Doctor Strange - Step by Step Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 1:22 am |
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Cool beans Mr Sokoliwski.  There's some expert knowledge in action here, but there's one thing I don't quite get... The energy-beams from the villains, why are they all in a reddish tint, when evil flame-heads uh, head, is so close to them? Now, I think I understand the reasoning behind making Mordo's beams red, since it creates a perfect contrast to his green clothes, but those purple guys below him, hmm... it just feels a bit off. I probably would have given either Mordo or the purple henchmen, a greyish beam, perhaps slightly tinted to green or yellow, just to break it up a bit. Just a quick question for you before finishing off, I've been colouring some flaming characters myself recently, and found it hard to find a colour-hold that works well for them, now, I'm thinking your brown lines on Dormammu is working quite nicely, would you recommend that for most situations with a flaming character, drawn in that manor? ( naturally if there's more advanced rendering on the flame-form, several different holds might be adviced, I suppose)
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Ian Sokoliwski
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Post subject: Colouring Doctor Strange - Step by Step Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 11:30 am |
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Well, I went with different shades of red to keep all the villains connected, to have their bad-guy blasts easily separate from Doctor Strange's blue energy shield. Yellow wouldn't be as effective for anyone, because it would fall into the yellow background behind Dormammu (the flamey-headed guy), and there is already so much green in the Baron's costume. So, I went with red
As to colour-holding flame, I tend to vary it a lot from picture to picture. Sometimes a deep red, sometimes orange, and sometimes (like here) what is essentially an orange-heavy brown. It really depends on the picture. You have to be adaptable.
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Post subject: Colouring Doctor Strange - Step by Step Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 1:34 am |
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Ian Sokoliwski
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Post subject: Colouring Doctor Strange - Step by Step Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 1:41 am |
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Hanzo the Razor
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Post subject: Colouring Doctor Strange - Step by Step Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 7:03 pm |
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Out of curiosity, when Gerry commissions you to do this, what does he get? A large file e-mailed to him? Do you printed out a poster or something?
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Ian Sokoliwski
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Post subject: Colouring Doctor Strange - Step by Step Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 2:45 am |
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Hanzo the Razor wrote: Out of curiosity, when Gerry commissions you to do this, what does he get? A large file e-mailed to him? Do you printed out a poster or something? Gerry (and all my other clients for colouring-only) gets a high-resolution colour file - usually, it's too large to email, and is sent via my FTP site or YouSendIt. This works out to be a lot cheaper than me printing and shipping a poster out to the client (especially one living so far away, like Gerry). Also, if something happens to the piece (sun damage or something like that), the client can get it reprinted or just print more than one. There are exceptions, but then a printing and shipping charge is added as well.
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