Hi, all.
This posting is to try and find a colorist. The group I'm working with is turning four novels into graphic novels. The character involved is iconic and has a following in the world at large. More than that I cannot say. We met as a group, me, Tim Vigil, Johnny B. Gerardy, and the author of the books at the Long Beach Comic Con last week. Went EXTREMELY well. The author is going to take this pitch into the 3rd largest comic book publisher himself, and it doesn't get any better than that. Anyway, I need a colorist to do the pitch samples: four concepts and one page of sequential art, all inked.
Anyone who wants to step up and try your color work out, here is the initial character sketch, penciled by Tim Vigil, inked by Johnny B. Gerardy, and now yours to download and work on. This is an open invitation and I will pass anyone's finished piece to the other two artists involved. The one they choose will get the gig -- simple as that.
I have faith that this project will find a home and that it will be a paying gig. The pitch sample pieces will have a price attached, but I need to work that out with the person selected to participate.
More questions, ask me: Shenandoah01 at gmail dot com.
Update(from Rick): I've added my color to this.
Update.(Ellis)
I did the one below Rick's
Looks exciting Tom. I'd say 50 percent of colors in comics ruin the line art for me. So I hope you get a good talent. Schmitz springs to mind. Jeromy Cox in your area is a great colorist. And mainly makes his living from that skill. I could give you a Fletcher Hanks color job. I don't think that's what you're after.
ReplyDeleteI'll give it a whirl!
ReplyDeleteGood on ye, matey ...
ReplyDeleteVery Nice Rick. I'm going to do one
ReplyDeleteIs that sedond one yours, Ellis? No signature ... :-(
ReplyDeleteYes. It's mine. Just a time killer. Looking at it thumbnail size I realize I'd do different. Nothing pops, no saturation anywhere and some pretty random color choices.
ReplyDeleteThey both look great. It's interesting to see the contrast between Ellis' cold, desolate version and Rick's burning wasteland.
ReplyDeleteDeane I think I've simplified things in my mind to this point. It's Cold or Hot or Not (Gray). Gray can be the best way to pop the temperature you may have in mind for a scene.
ReplyDeleteRick, I love your color palate and dramatic use of highlights, but the latter seems a bit inconsistent -- or unfinished? Specifically, I miss seeing the nice primary highlight on the Death Dealer's back continued along that entire side of him, and there are a few secondary highlights (from a light source on the viewer's right) with which you don't follow through. Am I just witnessing an accepted simplification standard for the industry? Am I out of line here?
ReplyDeleteEllis, I know yours is a quick-n-dirty, but the idea of a "cold" version appeals to me as well. Rather than making the Death Dealer's hotness pop against the cold, though, I'd run with it and make him more a part of his world, like Rick has so nicely done with his hot version. I'm thinking of the Others in George R. R. Martin's Ice & Fire series ... who have eyes of "a deep, inhuman blue that burns like fire." These two drawings would make great companion pieces.
You’re right, the rim lighting isn’t consistent. The drawing indicates where to put that stuff and I used the drawing as my guide. You are also right in that I missed the back side of his fat belt thing… I noticed it right after I posted it, I just haven’t had a chance to fix it yet.
ReplyDeleteGood points Beata. I may drop this into photoshop and do some manipulating
ReplyDeleteBelt thing fixed.
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