Thursday, April 15, 2010

Peanuts Color

Last but not least the fifth and sixth features that I color each week is Peanuts short and tall. Coloring Peanuts is an awesome experience for me, despite the fact that all of the colors are already established and all I really do for these strips is apply that established color to the old dailies. It's still a sort of surreal experience every time I open up one of these comics on my computer.

That's about it really, all together I color 36 dailies a week and I couldn't be happier. I hope you've enjoyed my most recent posts. I'll try to continue this healthy stretch of blog posts through out this month.

Peanuts
by Charles M. Schulz



Marmaduke Color

The Forth Feature I color every week is Marmaduke by Paul and Brad Anderson. These Daylies are by far the hardest to color. The Line work is so awesome and raw that it is nearly impossible to color. When trying to select areas to fill with color I find myself having to zoom all the way in so I can close off all the little gaps in the lines and fill in all of the tiny little holes . It's very time consuming, but at the same time its really cool to color Marm.

These posts are getting really long and the links to the images I am using from comics.com are really big so I condensed some of them and just uploaded the comics from my desktop. If you want to see more Marmaduke click here


Marmaduke
by Paul and Brad Anderson
Color by Me:)


Moderately Confused Color

The Third Feature I am coloring is called Moderately Confused by Jeff Stahler. This comic, much like Reality Check, is changing everyday, so I have a lot more freedom when coloring. This one is my favorite to color, I really like the color palette as well as the use of white in the negative spaces. Jeff Stahler is an amazing artist and I really feel lucky to be coloring his comics.

Moderately Confused
by Jeff Stahler
Color by Me:)
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Reality Check Color

The second Feature I color is called Reality Check. It's created and drawn by Dave Whamond. I really like coloring these dailies, every comic has a new situation and new characters which leaves me with a lot of room for creativity. As you can see the color palette is a lot different then The Buckets.

Reality Check
By Dave Whamond
color by Me:)
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Reality Check

coloring comics

So, there is a completely good reason why I haven't posted in a long time and that's because I finally got a regular freelance job. About 5 weeks ago I started working for Virtis Communications, which is a company out of my home town Buffalo, NY. Virtis is contracted by United Feature Syndicate, Inc. to color and distribute their comics. My job is to color those comics all day and I love every minute of it :) Right now I have six features that I am coloring, which amounts to 36 strips a week. All of them are different as far as the style and color. It's really keeping me on my toes bouncing from the different comics. Below I've posted "The Buckets" created by Greg Cravens. Its a funny comic and I really enjoy coloring it. When I started five weeks ago I was given a color guide which plots out all of the regular colors like the characters hair and shirts. Those colors stay the same through out, but the fun part for me is coloring all the stuff that isn't set in stone like the background panels and the one-off characters. It's not the most creative job, seeing how most of the colors are already established but I enjoy it. Basically I have to make sure that I color the Dailies while keeping with the general look and palette of the Sundays.

The publishing dates of the comics below are March 29th through April 15th.

The Buckets
by Greg Cravens
colored by me:)
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