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Post by junkmonkey on Jan 4, 2020 22:14:22 GMT -5
I don't know any more I've been working on it for the last too long. Is it funny?
Edit: Slightly revised to fix a couple of looking-at-it-again-after-a-couple-of-hours obvious cock ups.
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Post by junkmonkey on Jan 9, 2020 19:27:52 GMT -5
This isn't original me. I'm trying out new things on the old Photoshop recreating a Public Domain Joe Orlando Strip from 1953. I need a wee bit of help. Does anyone see any on screen moire patterns in the 'Ben Day' dot screens I'm using here. It sometimes looks horrendous as I'm working on it then next moment OK. Does it look OK to you guys?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2020 9:48:32 GMT -5
This isn't original me. I'm trying out new things on the old Photoshop recreating a Public Domain Joe Orlando Strip from 1953. I need a wee bit of help. Does anyone see any on screen moire patterns in the 'Ben Day' dot screens I'm using here. It sometimes looks horrendous as I'm working on it then next moment OK. Does it look OK to you guys? Looks really good and the colors are just great ... thanks.
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Post by junkmonkey on Jan 12, 2020 17:01:38 GMT -5
blip
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Post by junkmonkey on Jan 12, 2020 17:02:53 GMT -5
Looks really good and the colors are just great ... thanks.
Thanks, MechaGodzilla, I shall persevere...
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Post by beccabear67 on Jan 14, 2020 14:37:05 GMT -5
You seem pretty advanced in what colors you choose from the palate you also choose, they really suit the page and time period. I've really admired how some people do choose a palate and know what will work with it and what is outside of it.
Someone gave me a copy of their Photoshop once and I found it very user un-friendly. I never got anywhere with it. I can use the more limited iPhoto Plus 4 which is circa Windows 98, but there are things it doesn't do.
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Post by junkmonkey on Jan 14, 2020 15:59:02 GMT -5
Thanks for your kind words but I think you're giving me more credit than I deserve with the palette. For first I'm reusing the colour scheme already in place on the original - and though it is (I am finding out) possibly impossible to recreate the effect of real ink Ben Day or Crafttint screens on crappy pulp paper I'm trying to limit myself to (nearly) the same methods the original colourists would have used. I have layers of 100%, 75%, 50% and 25% opacity and am 'colouring' in Black on those layers and then removing unwanted elements of the individual CMYK channels in each layer to get the results I want. It's a reductive version of how I think the books would have been originally done. It's a larger range of colours than the original colourist had which (possibly) only used 100%, 50%, and 25% (and didn't have black in the 50% and 25% menus) but still very limited in modern computer terms. (256 I think - certainly not the millions available. It's all a bit hit and miss at the moment. I keep getting lost as to how each colour is made and have to go back and unpick a panel to find out how I made a colour I want again. Not helped by the fact I always get way too involved in the doing of something to take any notes (which would turn it into work and therefore not fun) and I get distracted by trying new things, like the double dot screen effect on the yellow face at the bottom left of the page. This is what Page 2 looks like at the moment.
Oh and here are a couple of links to some REAL drawing I did recently at a life-drawing session. It's heartening to know I can still draw for real though I keep having to slap myself down for getting comicbooky with my gestures - I mean, just look at the Moebius hatching on number 1 which, scarily stepping out of my comfort zone, I drew in pen. (Hah! Incal inking?)
(Nudity)
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Post by junkmonkey on Jan 15, 2020 20:14:49 GMT -5
The mojo is definitely not with me tonight. "An artist can feel the mojo flowing through him, Luke - it controls your actions, but it also obeys your commands - except when it comes to drawing feet - then you're on your own." So I coloured in a doodle and am turning in for an early night.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jan 16, 2020 6:28:29 GMT -5
The mojo is definitely not with me tonight. "An artist can feel the mojo flowing through him, Luke - it controls your actions, but it also obeys your commands - except when it comes to drawing feet - then you're on your own." So I coloured in a doodle and am turning in for an early night. I really like that mojo-independent piece!!! It has a certain Moebius whimsy about it, as well as a certain Frank Miller-like quality.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2020 9:26:05 GMT -5
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Post by junkmonkey on Jan 17, 2020 20:36:07 GMT -5
Thank you for saying so. That one started out with me literally idly doodling that oval shape in the front wheel and it just grew from there with no planning or forethought. (And precious little asitwashappeningthought either.) This morning my Mojo sauntered in from wherever it's been these last few days and looked at me as if I was a numpty for not getting anything done without it. So we sat down and pencilled a couple of pages of an 8 page strip I've been not getting round to starting for a while. Couldn't work out how to start. So this afternoon I threw a dart at my copy of Wally Wood's 22 Panels That Always Work and went from there.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2020 7:54:43 GMT -5
I loved these sketches ...
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Jan 19, 2020 7:43:08 GMT -5
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Post by junkmonkey on Jan 19, 2020 12:38:21 GMT -5
I really like the Hendrix one. I'm full of admiration. Colour scares me. And watercolour even more so than probably any other medium. There is an inherent lack of control about it - which probably more to do with my timidity and lack of practice than any actual inherent property of the method - which makes me run away to Photoshop and undo functions. Control Z is my friend.
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Post by Paste Pot Paul on Jan 28, 2020 17:01:31 GMT -5
My newest, a copy of an Alex Ross Last Phantom issue. I'm reasonably happy with the result. Learned that really cheap paint is cheap for a reason, that I can't paint plants for crap, and that I wish I could design a cover like this of my own. My design skill level is a 1 at best. Still a lot to work on but getting more confidence all the time. The down side to that of course is I'm looking at attempting work I'm just not good enough for.
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