Digitally coloring B&W Images.

This thing really makes me think of Audrey II from little shop of horrors...lol nicely colored

Vaeri wrote:

This thing really makes me think of Audrey II from little shop of horrors...lol nicely colored

Thanks. It's hard to work off of the image - because it's got a lot "colored in" detail already (tons of tiny dots and such).



But I did what I could.

I am nowhere - NOWHERE - near your level. Maybe your level from 30 years ago. And you probably weren't even born yet, 30 years ago. And I am probably still not that level.

I say it looks great, Tymber - especiually with all this dots and lines and greyscale (re)colored!

I wouldn't say you're nowhere near my level! I like your colorings! And...uh...i was newborn 30 years ago lol

Sand shark....now i'm gonna be thinking of sand worms all day. Damnit beetlejuice!! Haha

Here is the original -



And this was my coloring of it...

Darkhawk original -


My coloring (note - background is a NASA photo and not by me, if that wasn't obvious)

Judge Dredd original...


My coloring...

Longshot mini original....


My coloring...

Power Pack digitally colored by me (saved over the original to compare it against in error) -

Black Knight original -


My coloring...

Gave myself 30 minutes to color this.
http://comicreliefpodcast.com/archives/2616

Glad you are still exersizing your creativity, I hope gou are doing well

Some of these really bring me back to when comics were good, and back then I was clueless that those days could ever end: endless episodes of Iron Man tracking down his leaked tech, battling baddy of the month after another, Ambush Bug cosplay8ng Judge Dread, the occasional origin "must see first ever dont miss" issues... great times...

The new century has been dissappoingfor me for comics: 8 pages of story that would be more in place in a soap opera but Im paying for 24 pages of mostly ads, the story is a snippet in an appartment with injokes and references Id only get if I had read the last 2 years of comics, no action, no advrnture, just social drama of home life of a couple without kids. But at least they got ever drawn line to be a soupy flowing curve that reminded me of a plate of spegetti, with the color as rich and full and lifeless as a graphic arts dropout can mueter. A far cry from the prior Superman comic Id bought a decade before.

Are these covers you find somewhere or do you scan them yourself from your collection? I need to dig mine out for my kids to enjoy.

TrollHammer wrote:

Glad you are still exersizing your creativity, I hope gou are doing well

Definitely keeping creative. I run a D&D (Dungeons & Dragons) game every Tuesday - that has been a blessing.
Then run another game, once a month.
And play in an assort of D&D / RPG related games.

TrollHammer wrote:

Some of these really bring me back to when comics were good, and back then I was clueless that those days could ever end: endless episodes of Iron Man tracking down his leaked tech, battling baddy of the month after another, Ambush Bug cosplay8ng Judge Dread, the occasional origin "must see first ever dont miss" issues... great times...

Absolutely agree. I am re-reading my old Avengers - all digitally - started from Avengers #1 (now on... #337?)
This is the Twitter account I made - as I read and post brief comments about each issue...
https://twitter.com/DailyAvengersHQ

TrollHammer wrote:

The new century has been dissappoingfor me for comics: 8 pages of story that would be more in place in a soap opera but Im paying for 24 pages of mostly ads, the story is a snippet in an appartment with injokes and references Id only get if I had read the last 2 years of comics, no action, no advrnture, just social drama of home life of a couple without kids. But at least they got ever drawn line to be a soupy flowing curve that reminded me of a plate of spegetti, with the color as rich and full and lifeless as a graphic arts dropout can mueter. A far cry from the prior Superman comic Id bought a decade before.

I stopped collecting a few years ago. And really stopped reading about 10 years ago. But there were things like Uncanny X-Men that I had from #60 onward with no gaps, and so around issue #600... I finally said enough, because they rebooted - and it gave me the chance to severe that chain.

I have well over 30,000 comics...
A bunch I was wanting to sell at a local convention (San Diego Comic Fest), but then pandemic, then my wife's health...
And everything turned upside down.
Now I have a garage - stuffed with crap - which includes like 20 boxes full I want to get rid of.
I will probably just resort to throwing mass bundles on ebay - for dirt cheap.

TrollHammer wrote:

Are these covers you find somewhere or do you scan them yourself from your collection? I need to dig mine out for my kids to enjoy.

I find them online, because they're B&W.
So they're the artist covers - the ones used to press and print the comics, that someone has scanned.
For example - this site has some I've grabbed (just the scans, not bought the art) - just to digitally color them.
https://comicarttracker.com/john-byrne-original-art-for-sale

And what the original cover actually looks like...

I got lazy on this one...

Returned to this and redid it with much better results...


Came back to this one as well, but still not happy... something's still off.

Progression coloring of Age of Apocalypse...















And final...

Glad to see you sharing your new coloring pages Tymber! It's fun to see a bunch of them in the same place.

I like your version of the 1st X-Men cover, the colors are more coherent and the deeper shades suit it.

Cutter and Skywise is my favorite of these. The coloring on the spirits is cool looking the way it fades into the blue and green hues, with the slight change on Voll and the shading on the characters feels the most natural to me out of all of them.

Cutter and Ember is my least favorite, it looks good overall, but for some reason I feel like ember's skin tone and hair color clash a bit.

The one with Skywise and his ladies is interesting. Why did you vary their coloring so much?

I feel like with the Leetah and Cutter picture, you emphasized highlighting over shading, which is an interesting contrast to the other pictures. Or you at least focused on it more. I'm no art expert.

Like the progression coloring, it's fun to see what you tackled first.