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Ielle77 — Batgirl Reimagined
Published: 2011-09-24 17:46:08 +0000 UTC; Views: 2059; Favourites: 31; Downloads: 21
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Recently been working with new ideas on coloring (using halftone stuff on photoshop) and trying to achieve a less comic-y disney-fied look. No idea if i'm succeeding, but i'm enjoying what i've come up with thus far. Manga studio really does a nice job tightening up my lines. Oddly enough the pencil artist in me feels like i'm cheating, despite the fact that i'm still using my own hand to use the wacom and i do sketch these things out on paper and scan them in first. It's just that they look SO MUCH better once i play with them on Manga studio. I feel like i'm using Auto-tune.
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Your using cut tones in colour and a black and white halftone/pattern. It muddies and dulls things for me. I think for the method its inconsistent. The only thing is, its applied to everything, so maybe I should consider it a 'style' and I'm just not used to it.
Normally, the halftone is applied at the inks stage and colour consistent with the light sources of the inking stage. This comes off like the light sources were dictacted by the colours and half tones added subsequently.
I used to mess around with half-tones on photoshop years before Manga Studio got everyone doing it. ex-PJer vfiks gave me his original method which I modified. Its not like this. I should do a demo piece and post it up really.
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I'd love to see a demo version of what you're talking about (applying it in the inking stage). I actually did this halftone stuff in photoshop (not that that matters). I think i was trying for a mix of color with shading AND the old dot/halftone look that you get from older comics.
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Halftones at the ink stage is the traditional method surely (See DC Comics Guide to Inking and DC Comics Guide to coloring for light sources). Manga does it at that stage too. So I don't think that's out of the ordinary.
How I go about doing it has more to do with thinking about inking digitally. I started drawing digitally back in 2005, when I used to e-mail people like Freddie Williams before he was famous!
I basically do the rendering for colouring in the ink stage. That way coloring is just adding flats for me.
Here's an example for me tho: [link]
Popping in the highlights can be done afterward too. I don't think I've seen anyone do that.
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