Can I Commission someone to color this?

MoonChild · Post by **MoonChild** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 9:52 pm

loki_1992 wrote:I asked my wife to give it a try and this is the sample she produced using copic markers.

Nice start, it looks good with erica's hair colored.

The Spider · Post by **The Spider** » Fri Jul 03, 2009 11:23 pm

MoonChild wrote:
The Spider wrote:Thanks everyone.

MoonChild wrote:I like the red & the white one but how about coloring erica's face regular colors, great job man, did you do that in photoshop?
Yeah; it's all done on Photoshop. I'm thinking of ditching the red-orange one since Solar seems to blend too much into it. Might color Erica but I want it to fit with the background somewhat.
Yea, I like the White one but maybe erica's face colored even lightly. The green around the box is kinda off too maybe try a different color like the gold for that. I think all the Character's are colored Perfect accept X-O looks a little off, great job again man

I was a little hesitant about coloring in Erica but loki_1992's wife showed it could work, so I'll have to try that.

Yeah, the X-O's rather off mainly because I was trying to work the coloring with the yellow background (up until I started to have second thoughts about it). That's why I was trying to see if I could get a definite idea on the background, so I could change the colors accordingly.

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 12:52 am

loki_1992 wrote:I asked my wife to give it a try and this is the sample she produced using copic markers.

That is SWEET! Can't wait to see the characters when they are coloured in!

-slym

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 12:54 am

Looking good so far.

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 1:41 am

I still think we need the multi-coloured "powers" around her eye...

-slym

The Spider · Post by **The Spider** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 1:43 am

Got a little further but there's still much left to go...

I wanted to maintain that black and white effect so I'm still trying to decide how much I'm going to fade out of Erica. I liked the idea that Loki_1992's wife had with the ray area being more faded than the rest of Erica, and I think it's something that can help make the figures pop further.

Strangely enough I never noticed until now that Solar always wore a grey visor up until Birthquake, where he then started wearing a yellow visor for some reason.

The Spider · Post by **The Spider** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 1:47 am

slym2none wrote:I still think we need the multi-coloured "powers" around her eye...

-slym

Yeah, I'm trying to go through my copies of Unity and all that just to get a better idea of how to do that. I'll see what happens.

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 1:49 am

The Spider wrote:
slym2none wrote:I still think we need the multi-coloured "powers" around her eye...

-slym
Yeah, I'm trying to go through my copies of Unity and all that just to get a better idea of how to do that. I'll see what happens.

Good luck!

MoonChild · Post by **MoonChild** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 3:45 am

looks great spider! her skin being light it's ok to make her har a little darker brown. Coming along really well man, thanks.

geocarr · Post by **geocarr** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 4:26 am

I think Spider is getting close to nailing this! He's good!

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Sat Jul 04, 2009 9:33 am

geocarr wrote:I think Spider is getting close to nailing this! He's good!

Ditto.

loki_1992 · Post by **loki_1992** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 7:08 am

Here is my Wife's finished sample.

Unity 1 - by Joanna

Drift · Post by **Drift** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 7:36 am

I am not criticising anyone's colouring but I think the pic itself is missing something.

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 9:22 am

Drift wrote:I am not criticising anyone's colouring but I think the pic itself is missing something.

Like what?

Drift · Post by **Drift** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 9:25 am

Daniel Jackson wrote:
Drift wrote:I am not criticising anyone's colouring but I think the pic itself is missing something.
Like what?

I mean, there is something that just doesn't sit right with me.

I don't know what it is but I guess I just don't 'get it.'

The guys and gals have done a cool job of their colouring but the picture itself just, I don't know it just isn't my bag I guess.

slym2none · Post by **slym2none** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:12 am

loki_1992 wrote:Here is my Wife's finished sample.

Unity 1 - by Joanna

She is really quite good! That's the best I've seen yet...

-slym

BloodOfHeroes · Post by **BloodOfHeroes** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:26 am

Did Erica have brown eyes in the funnybooks?

xodacia81 · Post by **xodacia81** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:33 am

loki_1992 wrote:Here is my Wife's finished sample.

Unity 1 - by Joanna

Wow. Really nice shading. Lots of subtleties. The coloring on this really brings out the finer details of the line work. I'm not usually big on yellow, but with THIS work, that color doesn't bother me as a background. Totally excellent effort.

Daniel Jackson · Post by **Daniel Jackson** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:39 am

BloodOfHeroes wrote:Did Erica have brown eyes in the funnybooks?

I seem to remember them being a very dark brown.

The Spider · Post by **The Spider** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 2:02 pm

BloodOfHeroes wrote:Did Erica have brown eyes in the funnybooks?

I was looking through some of the Solar issues she appeared in and it seems she does.

greg · Post by **greg** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 3:24 pm

Modified one of the works-in-progress...

MoonChild · Post by **MoonChild** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 4:14 pm

loki_1992 wrote:Here is my Wife's finished sample.

Unity 1 - by Joanna

Pretty cool man.

MoonChild · Post by **MoonChild** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 4:15 pm

greg wrote:Modified one of the works-in-progress...

Nice!

MoonChild · Post by **MoonChild** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 4:18 pm

There's aspects that I like & dont totally like from both of these above, where's spider! I'd like to see his finished work. X-O needs to be re-colored and erica needs to be finished.

Drift · Post by **Drift** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 4:22 pm

I think it is the poses and the hands that bother me.

Rai and X-O don't look right, someone mangled Aram's hand in a mincer and I think Solar put his hand on back to front after Geoff gave it back to him.

Also Venom appears to be attacking Archer.