Oh! Is that you, Count? Finally. You left me rarin' to go... come and look at this!
- Evelyn
Here's a little colourization excercise I did back in February. It's a panel from David Messina's comic The Client Comes at Midnight from French Kiss issue #5. The story centers around a woman called Evelyn, who I suppose is a real estate agent, and her assignment to show a creepy, haunted mansion to a client. The client, of course, never arrives during the comic and Evelyn gets to have sex with all the clichéd horror story icons, such as a vampire, a werewolf and the Frankenstein's monster. Messina has used Evelyn in at least three other stories too and I wish we'd see more of her, she's a real vixen!
I've never been good with traditional colouring. I hated crayons, I sucked with colouring pencils, I made a mess with watercolours. Digital colouring, however, is a completely different thing. For some reason that seems a lot easier for me to do. I admire artists like Shabby Blue, T.Catt and miravi who do a marvelous job with digital colours (although I believe Shabby still uses pencils to colour his art and then "smudges" them in Photoshop for a smoother result). I actually aimed to mimic Shabby's style with this practice run. I made up the colour of her hair and clothes, since I've yet to see any of the three Evelyn comics I've come across in colours. For some reason I always saw her as a blonde playing the classic role of a "bad brunette".
In other news, I'm aiming to finish the PPG piece by Friday afternoon. I'll start inking it tomorrow but it's a big process after that: scanning, vector tracing, cleaning up the lineart, colouring and, because this one's a hardcore piece, drawing digital cum.
