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Gawd... so many firsts (for me and my learning to colour stuff) in this one for me, where do I start?

First off the clouds. This is the first time that I have ever hand painted clouds rather than rely on various filters and the flamingpear.com plugin 'glitterato'. It took me 4 attempts to get what you see here. Then the metals, especially the disks on his chest and the way they reflect everything around them. I'll never look at metal the same way again I think. Then painting the rim lighting and painting OVER the lineart whereas up until now I've only ever really done glows and a few colour holds on pictures. And grass!!! Layers and layers of grass!...! Gah!

Anyway heaps of fun overall

pencils = Oliver Coipel and inks by mark Morales

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Sean]]> Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:12:59 +0000 http://seane.cgsociety.org/gallery/805399

pencils = marc silvestri
inks = joe weems

Coloured this one for fun after steve firchow sent me the high res inks (whatta nice guy!) and its been AGES since I've had a marc silvestri/weems pic to play with!

I love green...

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Sean]]> Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:19:59 +0000 http://seane.cgsociety.org/gallery/799093

pencils = ken rocafort
inks = billy crooks - who sent me the high res inks he did to have a play with - whatta nice guy!
COLOUR = me!

I'd forgotten how much I hated colouring with pink (because it's hard to get right and make it look ok) ... now I remember...! :+P
But the rest of this was a heap of fun to do!!!

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Sean]]> Mon, 24 Aug 2009 00:10:21 +0000 http://seane.cgsociety.org/gallery/771666

Ok so what have I been up to in the past month or so..?

Besides it being exam time and meaning that I have bucket loads of marking to do (bleah...), I've been getting these school mascots designed for the different houses/factions of the new school where I teach, following the success of a similar project last year at my old school.

They are:

Owen Phoenix
Sanderson Apes
Weston Wolves
and Wallis Tigers

The names (owen, sanderson etc) are the names of the original pioneers/settlers in the region. Boring as hell I know but we're stuck with them...

But the kids themselves chose the animal characters in a school competition

pencils and inks by randy kintz again

They'll now be used on all sorts of school publications starting with some 3 metre high banners of each character up on the wall of the gym, as well as flags, t-shirts, mousepads, mugs, desktop wallpapers... well anywhere we can think of actually.

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Sean]]> Sat, 06 Jun 2009 09:44:37 +0000 http://seane.cgsociety.org/gallery/763563

Flat out with end of semester exam writing and assorted marking of other assignments. (bleah...the joys of being a teacher) So knocked this one up in the little spare time I seem to have at the moment...

pencils = david finch
inks = jonathan glapion

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Sean]]> Thu, 14 May 2009 08:39:37 +0000 http://seane.cgsociety.org/gallery/761697

Cover for a submission to zenoscope. Concept, design, cover drawing, inks all by Rich Bonk

Colour by me!

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Sean]]> Sat, 09 May 2009 07:55:17 +0000 http://seane.cgsociety.org/gallery/749874

My original idea for the background was to have the tree a pink/purple fading into a white-ish background, and after mucking around with that for a day or so I realised that it well... sucked.

So I came up with this quickly. I seem stuck on the vignette effect for now. This is the 3rd pic in a row with this sort of thing... ahh well, better than being stuck on colouring stuff 'blue' as I did for about 5 months last year...

Pencils = David Finch
Inks = llamas

High res inks sent to me by Steve Firchow (whatta nice guy!)

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Sean]]> Sun, 05 Apr 2009 09:14:14 +0000 http://seane.cgsociety.org/gallery/740777

pencils and inks by Zach Howard

being a mega-fan trekker from way, way back I couldn't pass this one up when I saw it on Zach's website, so I coloured it up for fun on the weekend. Resistence as they say, *was* futile!

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Sean]]> Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:01:08 +0000 http://seane.cgsociety.org/gallery/737689

pencils = david finch
inks = ernest jocson
colour = me!

I got the high res inks off ernest jocosn (what a nice guy) and colored this one up for fun while waiting for another few pieces to be emailed down the line.

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Sean]]> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 05:21:15 +0000 http://seane.cgsociety.org/gallery/733551

a rejected concept design for an 'upgrade' version of Aphrodite IX done by Joel Gomez. She's kinda Aphrodite IX crossed with Witchblade bits and a bit of EVE: Protomecha thrown in...

pencils = Joel Gomez who sent me the high res pencils (whatta nice guy!)
Inks = Tom Schloendorn who inked them for me (another really nice guy!)

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Sean]]> Mon, 23 Feb 2009 05:48:49 +0000 http://seane.cgsociety.org/gallery/730362

When I started this one I really didn't have a clue how I was going to do it from a technical point of view considering the dramatic lighting from the electicals going on in Storm's hand. As it was I must have done her skin areas at least 6 - 8 times before finally getting it right and even then only after I asked Raul Trevino for some pointers and hints!!!. The rest all just came standard and easy to do, but that skin on Storm must have consumed at least 10 hours!

All up this was just a learning piece to work out how to handle this sort of environment and lighting effects.

pencils = Diogenes Neves
Inks = Ed Tadeo

Based on the original colours by raul trevino who sent me the high res inks (what a nice guy!!! )

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Sean]]> Sun, 15 Feb 2009 02:33:45 +0000 http://seane.cgsociety.org/gallery/725303

Pencils by Steve Platt (man you can *never* find his stuff on the net!) and inks by David Rivera

Tricky to do but I based the colour scheme on a deadpool "Ka-booom" picture I found elsewhere as a reference and inspiration which seemed to do the trick... Still had a bugger of a time making Ironman decently visible against that explosion.

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Sean]]> Sun, 01 Feb 2009 07:19:52 +0000 http://seane.cgsociety.org/gallery/717162

pencils by Joseph Ng and inks by Mickey Clausen. I've not coloured a Joe Ng pic before so this was cool to get hold of...!

I stuffed around on the background and then the wings for ages before settling on this. Plus, whoever decided that a superhero character with hawk wings and feathers... LOTS and LOTS of feathers, ought to be shot!... :P

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Sean]]> Sun, 11 Jan 2009 08:46:31 +0000 http://seane.cgsociety.org/gallery/713307

Pencils and inks by joseph caesar who sent me the high res scan to them. I just loved the batsuit here and had heaps of fun doing it! I'm especially happy with the wall and the face skintones for that matter too.

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Sean]]> Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:57:57 +0000 http://seane.cgsociety.org/gallery/704065

pencils by Billy Tan, inks by Walden Wong

Just a quickie commission I got paid to do (yay me!)

It's a simple portrait for promos/posters/submissions. He's a teacher to the blind by day, and super hero by night (aren't they all?) His special power is his metal-silver eyes that cause people to see the deepest darkest nastiest side of their inner selves - permanently, so he has to wear super dark sunglasses all the time. Kinda like X-men Cyclops but nastier and with less ruby coloured death rays! ]]> Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:18:07 +0000 http://seane.cgsociety.org/gallery/700723

pencils and inks by Drew Johnson (Marvel artist)

If people are wondering who this wolalina character is and why she always looks different, then she's a time travelling detective from the 21st century and so she dresses in whatever period/era and location that she finds herself.

In this one she's found herself in the US war of independence but as she's from the 21st century she's also passing herself off as a kind of super-hero (due to her greater technology) and so she's ripped ideas off zorro and captain america - which explains the mask and shield... go figure...

Wolalina concept developed by Daniel Kakunen.

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Sean ]]> Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:23:47 +0000 http://seane.cgsociety.org/gallery/692214

pencils by Philip Tan and inks by Jon Glapion; who sent me the high res to have a play with. All the machine exo-skeleton stuff wasn't *that* hard to do actually... the lineart itself did most of the work.

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Sean]]> Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:12:51 +0000 http://seane.cgsociety.org/gallery/687137

Art Thibert asked me to colour his new poster of his own "Black and White" series. He'll probably use this at conventions etc in the coming months and it may turn out to be the cover of his new script. He's asked me to be the colourist for this book which means it'll be my first full comic book that I've worked on! (Let's then hope it sees the light of day an ultimately gets published!)

pencils and inks = art thibert, colour = me]]> Tue, 21 Oct 2008 06:11:48 +0000 http://seane.cgsociety.org/gallery/676556

So freaking busy I haven't time to do much lately - getting married, getting ready for Rome holiday, end of school term so heaps of marking - bleah. This picture is all about the reflection effect on the "floor" which is an effect I haven't tried before. Otherwise the colour scheme is one I've done before so nothing new there. I hate doing hair anytime!... Tongue

pencils and inks = mike miller

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Sean]]> Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:47:20 +0000 http://seane.cgsociety.org/gallery/670399

pencils/inks by Tony Moore.

Tony Moore provides some high resolution inks from past comics on his website for aspiring artists to have a shot at. This is one of them! It took ages to do!

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Sean]]> Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:19:52 +0000 http://seane.cgsociety.org/gallery/665163

I was colouring away on another picture when I looked at it and saw that it was going to be the what...?... 10th picture out of the last 15 or so that I've done that was going to be basically desaturated green/orange/yellow as a colour scheme.

Ok, so deciding to put that aside for now, I went looking through my lineart stash and decided to do this one simply to give myself a kick up the arse and do a highly saturated, non-green/orange/yellow picture!! - so here it is. Nothing fancy, just trying to get myself out of a rut...!

pencils = David Finch and inks = Joe Weems. based on the original colour scheme by Steve Firchow.

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Sean]]> Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:01:09 +0000 http://seane.cgsociety.org/gallery/657418

pencils = mcornelius at deviantart and inks by mike clausen (mindwinder at deviantart)
I've had my eye on the penciled file for years at mcornelius' DA gallery and FINALLY someone inked it! (and better yet sent them to me!)

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Sean]]> Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:18:38 +0000 http://seane.cgsociety.org/gallery/650879

pencils and inks by Art Thibert.

Squeezing this one inbetween other paid stuff (gee can I tell it must be con season and SDCC is coming up? - everyone wants me to colour their samples pages/covers/pinups/whatever at present it seems! :P ) Anyway, Art sent me the highres to this one to have a play with after I did a Captain Action picture/poster for him a while back. It's not a patch on the original colours done by Snakebite but was fun to do.

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Sean]]> Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:48:52 +0000 http://seane.cgsociety.org/gallery/641454

Pencils and inks by Wayne Nichols and colour by ME!

Darren Close (owner of the killeroo character) commissioned Wayne to draw this pinup for him and then gave it to me to colour up! "Make it Earthy" were his only instructions... so, here it is!

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Sean]]> Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:54:22 +0000 http://seane.cgsociety.org/gallery/632104

pencils by Eric Basaldua
inks by Tom Schloendorn

COLOUR by me!

So Eric posted this on his deviantart gallery as a high res pencils for people to have fun with to ink or to colour... so here's my efforts on the colours! It was all going pretty much standard with spooky blues and reds etc and then I accidently bumped the hue slider to 180 and it all went greeny-grey!!... I went WOW! - and ta-dahh, here it is!

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Sean]]> Fri, 16 May 2008 07:57:27 +0000 http://seane.cgsociety.org/gallery/616930

Man, talk about fiddling with this one! The original colours many years ago were with a pink background and so I decided to go with green just to be different! I was struggling to find a way to bring out both spidey and wolverine equally at the same time and everything I tried was swallowing one or the other. Guess that green idea went by the board then didn't it!?... :P

pencils = david finch
inks = tom schloendorn - who sent me the high res inks to play with for fun
colour = me!

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Sean]]> Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:35:38 +0000 http://seane.cgsociety.org/gallery/604633

Fan art pencils by Rosame Gregorio who sent me the high res (how nice of her) and which I then had to get inked. Took me a while to get someone to do so but eventually Tom Schloendorn did it for me.

So to the colours! - I mucked around for ages on the skintones of Aphrodite alone. The magenta jet bike is what it was coloured like in the original comic so I was kinda stuck with that, but the rest came out nicely IMO with the complementary greens etc.

So all in all, a bit of a saga to get it done but I'm pretty happy with the end result!

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Sean]]> Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:45:32 +0000 http://seane.cgsociety.org/gallery/585887

Pencils - Nat Jones and inks = Richard Bonk (who sent me the high res to this one - whatta nice guy!!) Rich saw the first deathdealer (http://www.seanellery.com/gallery/albums/userpics/deathdealer2a.jpg) that I did from his inks and sent me this one to have a bash at as well. *Then* Jon Glapion sent me another DD by Nat Jones to have a play with - but I haven't done that one yet... but I will!

My initial idea for this one looks nothing like the finished product here!

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Sean]]> Sat, 19 Jan 2008 10:19:04 +0000 http://seane.cgsociety.org/gallery/577181

pencils by Andre Ponce - who sent me the high res.
inks by Tom Schloendorn
Colour by ME!

As i was working on this I became aware that there were quite a few things wrong with the picture itself. Firstly the upper hand is around the wrong way, and otherwise the light direction as indicated by the B&W inks keeps changing. Top left on the upper rock, center right halfway down and then from behind the characters by the time you get to the bottom rocks! Added that "barf-boy" has no indicated light direction at all... and it made for an interesting exercise!!

At least I'm happy with the colour combinations and how they came out and I covered the light source issues as best I could.

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Sean]]> Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:14:05 +0000 http://seane.cgsociety.org/gallery/565556

So, Tim Townsend has a new deviantart gallery and is uploading all sorts of large sized and mostly high res goodness, so I did this one while I wait for some (paid gig!!) artwork for a children's book to come in...

pencils by JS Campbell and Inks by Tim Townsend of course... and I might have overdone the glows a bit on the webbing - still thinking about those...

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Sean]]> Mon, 26 Nov 2007 05:22:00 +0000 http://seane.cgsociety.org/gallery/561734

Pencils by Tony Daniel and inks by Jon Glapion (who sent me the high res inks file.) So, just experimenting with greens, grays and oranges here... sorta trying for a "Batman - Begins" feel.. I dunno, maybe it didn't work as good as I envisaged. *shrugs*

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Sean]]> Thu, 15 Nov 2007 06:48:05 +0000 http://seane.cgsociety.org/gallery/558658


Mark Brooks (penciller) posted the high res on his DeviantArt gallery and invited everyone to have a go at it - so here's mine.

Had to work on it inbetween some PAID work!! (which I'm not allowed to show yet on forums etc until after NYCC) - yay me!! - so that's why it's been a while between posts.

Not 100% happy with the girl and the chipmunk but the rest seems ok to me... btw, if I never have to colour another sunflower again I'll be happy. :P

and now I get to move onto colouring about 12 character pictures for a children's book and accompanying website - again paid work - so yay me again...

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Sean]]> Wed, 07 Nov 2007 04:41:02 +0000 http://seane.cgsociety.org/gallery/550159

Pencils by Richard Bonk and colour by me.

Richard did this one for fun it seems and then sent me the master high res black and white to "see what I could do with it"and so... here it is!

It wasn't all that ahrd to do overall and only took me about 4 nights all up (mind you one of those nights entailed a 2.00am finish...)

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Sean]]> Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:07:45 +0000 http://seane.cgsociety.org/gallery/544537

Pencils by David Finch and inks by Jimmy Reyes who sent me the master high res file of his inks to have a play with! There was no background on this one so I just made something up...

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Sean]]> Fri, 28 Sep 2007 03:15:46 +0000 http://seane.cgsociety.org/gallery/543266

Pencils by Dietrich Smith and inks by pro inker Walden Wong, who asked me to the colours on it for them. This is for a 'Darkhorse' comics submission. If they pick it then I get to colour the full series (and get money to do it!!) or at worst get to do the remaining covers for them - *crosses fingers*- But we'll just have to wait and see.

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Sean]]> Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:08:24 +0000 http://seane.cgsociety.org/gallery/533100

Yeah! - Rednecks, shotguns, booze and ninjas!! What's not for a guy to like!?...!!!

After doing 7 blue-based pictures out of my last 11 pictures I deliberately avoided using that colour in this picture, just for the heck if it. I kept having flashbacks of the "My Name is Earl" TV show doing this one! :P (except that show has less ninjas...)

Pencils and inks by Neil Googe who also created this character.

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Sean ]]> Sun, 26 Aug 2007 15:36:56 +0000 http://seane.cgsociety.org/gallery/529792

pencils by philip tan and inks by dubbery over at deviantart.com
COLOUR = me

I actually *hate* doing hair at the best of times... imagine how I felt when faced with this one! :+P

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Sean]]> Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:25:02 +0000 http://seane.cgsociety.org/gallery/522820

Pencils and Inks by Edgar Tadeo and colour by myself.

Going for the dark and gloomy look here. Heh... 6 of my last 8 coloured art pics have been blues and greys! Well, if Picasso can have his "blue" period I guess so can I! :+P]]> Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:31:01 +0000 http://seane.cgsociety.org/gallery/517180

pencils by Nat and inks by Richard Bonk - who also sent me the high res B&W for this one to have a play with on the colours

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Sean]]> Wed, 11 Jul 2007 05:57:40 +0000 http://seane.cgsociety.org/gallery/513543

Pencils = Philip Tan, inks = Walden Wong and COLOUR = me

This will be used as a poster at the various comic conventions this year apparently. Not sure which cons though, but it'll be a limited print run of 100 copies only.

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Sean]]> Mon, 02 Jul 2007 05:12:56 +0000 http://seane.cgsociety.org/gallery/511160

Pencils by Joshua Allen, Colour = me

Done for the millarworld.tv forum thread of the next Atomic-Mike TPB submission that been happening over there. Hopefully Steve will like it and put it in the book...

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Sean]]> Tue, 26 Jun 2007 06:12:39 +0000 http://seane.cgsociety.org/gallery/506952

First coloured pic after spending two weeks marking year 11 and 12 geography exams. (yay - yep, I know what I'd *rather* be doing!) so this was kinda like the cupcake sitting on the top of the treadmill.

Got the high res pencils and inks by Mike Miller from abacuscomics.com who now goes on my 'whatta nice guy' list!. Colour by me as usual.

Lots of fun creating the contrast between the evil and good sides!

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Sean]]> Thu, 14 Jun 2007 07:42:44 +0000 http://seane.cgsociety.org/gallery/499330

pencils = joe benitez, inks = llamas and COLOR = me as usual.

Got the high res to this off "Gibbous" a few years ago. Background are just some fractal pics off a google search that have been folded, spindled and mutilated...

Sean]]> Wed, 23 May 2007 08:41:50 +0000 http://seane.cgsociety.org/gallery/495187

pencils = Mike Wieringo, Inks = Sean Parsons, COLOUR = me

Evil/dark spiderman is *SO* easy to do!!! :+P This picture wasn't meant to be coloured this way but I decided to make some small changes to the inks and have some fun with it. ]]> Fri, 11 May 2007 08:14:26 +0000 http://seane.cgsociety.org/gallery/489917

Pro penciller David Nakayama now joins my 'whatta nice guy' list for provided the original high res lineart for this one and a couple of others! I had a heck of a time trying to get the background right as its my first fully painted background. Eventually I went with this using one of the default photoshop brushes... eh, looks ok to me... ]]> Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:49:05 +0000 http://seane.cgsociety.org/gallery/482794

steve firchow (the original topcow colourist) sent me the high res inks to this one to have a practise with. It wasfun working out ways to get some depth to the background and the swampy water effect!! Sonja herself was easy compared to those bits

pencils by marc silvestri, inks by joe weems and colour by me]]> Fri, 06 Apr 2007 06:23:50 +0000 http://seane.cgsociety.org/gallery/481224

pencils by Randy Green - again from his DA gallery

Incredibly nasty and rough digital inks by me... but hey they work, kinda...

just banging this one out on a Saturday night after marking 6 billion year 10 powerpoint assignments on 'china's one child policy' before the end of term...most of which was just simple cut-n-paste off the net, god forbid they should actually write something of their OWN! Well it seemed like 6 billion... or maybe that's how many Chinese there are? I forget...

anyway, here's the pic...

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Sean]]> Mon, 02 Apr 2007 08:38:44 +0000 http://seane.cgsociety.org/gallery/480057

pencils = randy green, inks = rick ketcham, colour = me! From the inks that are on randy's DA gallery.

I've been trying to do dave nakayama's COH #15 cover over the past few weeks but got bogged down on the background. So I took some time out to do this one by Randy who has the inks posted up on his DA gallery. Lotsa fun to do!

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Sean]]> Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:43:32 +0000 http://seane.cgsociety.org/gallery/470987

This was a test/sample piece drawn by Steve Firchow a few years ago (inked by Joe Weems) and he sent me the master high res B&W file to have a play with! So anyway, here's my take on the picture. I like his style of inks - lots of big black areas so you can get lazy with the gradients as it still looks good with big swipes of colour!

I had fun trying to get the glow under his boots right and eventually just used some fractal pictures, with their colours adjusted to overlay is as a texture file. Gave a nifty effect.

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Sean]]> Tue, 06 Mar 2007 07:13:42 +0000