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Published: 2006-04-20 22:28:31 +0000 UTC; Views: 636; Favourites: 9; Downloads: 17
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I scanned this before, could'nt stand it and totally re drew the top half. This scan is still flawed. Om my uipstairs monitor ir's near perfect bar a little too much contrast. On the monitor I'm using now it appears faded and flat so feedback on how it appears o the majority of monitors would be great.The obvious influence here is from the Invisibles comics but there's a few more too. The colour scheme was based on The Losers: Tri-Fecta and the square inking things was from looking at Kevin O'Neils anarchic european style work on Nemesis The Warlock. The fine and scratchy inks came from Shirow Masamune's semi serious OTT style in Orion which is far too underrated a comic. The glowing shadow... I can't remember any direct influences but it could have something to do with either 80's comics or the intro sequences to Bond films.
EDIT; Altered the catergory and rescanned the image. Still not perfect and at a lower resolution (75 dpi's fine for monitors and hides a few mistakes). I'll tweak this later this weekend. It's an improvement. Cheers to Kate for the pointers.
If I could get this to reproduce well on a screen it's make a decent design (and if it was in any way truly original it'd be a great one but I'm just a hack).
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Very clever. Cheers for the fave man.
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That's a striking piece of work; I like the contrast of the glowing shadow too, the way it's turned on its head the standard ideas of light and dark.
Too little sleep, sorry, that comment came out poo.
Anyway, nice one!
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Relax, I got woken up by over excitable family telling me I had a conditional uni place.
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Thanks, I was really experimenting with some of the inking.
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Nicely done. The symbolism is very effective. Fine form and colors.
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Cheers man. Originally the top background was pure white and grenade only had lineart inking. The image was pretty flat.
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The VERY obvious influence from the invisibles. The bit where he leaves the smile granade behind always ammuses me.
I like the colours and reflection and the way you did the BG.
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Yeah, background was supposed to be like the mottled background I did with Kate's Suggestion last year but it messed up so fuck it I though: lets try new inking styles.
Having just read a load of John Wagner comics too may have some influence on the recent themes I've been doing.
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It's a nice technique. The one thing I would say (expects smiting for this) but it's a real shame the inks you used weren't more waterproof, as they muddy the colour up a little bit and the image would look better being crisper.
btw, if you want, over summer, I can help show you how to pretty up trad stuff that you scan so they look better on screen a little. You're already pretty sound, but if you want any of my half-knowledge of photoshop, I will share.
*suddenly remebered she promised herself a new graphics tablet when the essays are done, makes note to order that.*
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Actually the inks went on after. They look muddy because the scan messed up - toooooo much contrast. Fixing it today. These days I pencil the ar first, make the final lines heavy, rub them out to eveal mrakings/outlines, colour it THEN add inks.
It really is just a bad scan, honest!
As for the lessons, sure. I'm fine at B/W and have mastered it pretty much. Colour scans still taunt me.
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On the contrast thing, if you're not already doing it, avoid the 'brightness and contrast' control and use levels instead.
On the pencil thing though, pencil can muddy up your colours as well, especially when you do as many washes as you do, so make sure you keep it light. A really really waterproof ink to do your basic lines might be better. (Like simple biro inking, then do the propper inks afterwards.)
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Usually I do avoid them like the plague. This time I was runing out of options (the original raw scan was pish to start with which my own fault because I rushed it.)
I see what you mean with pencils so I use mechanical pencils to avoid dirt. As for Biro's... I just can't get the results I want and they take so long to dry properly.
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Graphite is graphite, using mechanical pencils doesn't change that. (Though using very hard lead might.)
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