I am indeed working on page 7 of winter's solace, and I am also still working on that Vincent and Cloud piece as well as other stuff.
But in the interim, I updated my techniques for one of the MANY ways to digitally paint. This one is often used for illustration work. It's back coloring a scanned pencil drawing. There's lots of ways to accomplish it. More than anything I am now working with differing color presets in photoshop and a differing process to make things print at a higher quality in CMYK. Color conversion is a major issue, and I refuse to paint in CMYK. Too many limitations. RGB can be converted to CMYK, but the reverse is not true. So paint for web optimization and then reduce for printing range...that's my rule.
Anyway, I did a project last night to test out the new color settings. Not too shabby, though the line drawing itself was HIGHLY flawed, the finished version still has nice artistic values.
It's not an accurate depiction of Japanese armor...more like it's what happens when Samurai armor and Medieval European armor get together and have a sloppy bastard child. LOL! But it was simply test art, so the subject/style/accuracy didn't really matter. I just needed dense pencils to play with. There are definitely a lot of things I'd change if this was professional work. I was using some hints from several great colorists in the comic business. It was, overall, a successful experiment in color.
