New video up on YouTube! Critiques & tweaks.

There's a discussion section in my coloring course in which I provide feedback and critiques for anyone that requests it, and I feel like it makes me a better colorist too to have to explain myself! I have to figure out how to verbalize why something doesn't "look right." 

In this YouTube video, I go over a few samples to show how sometimes slight tweaks can really make a big different in how a page reads. I'm already getting requests to do another, so feel free to send in your sequential examples, and maybe I'll do yours in an upcoming video! 


A flatting tutorial!

By popular request, a flatting tutorial video!  Flatters, sometimes called coloring assistants, break up all of the elements on the page into separate colors. It's sometimes called color separations. The colors themselves are irrelevant, but they make the colorist's job easier by allowing them to just select the areas with a magic wand, as opposed to re-lassoing everything when coloring.

There are many, many wrong ways for a flatter to flat pages. I'm constantly hearing from fellow colorists that have a hard time finding new flatters that know how to do it properly.

So I made this video to try to rectify that! I'm sure there's more than one correct way to do it, but this is my way, and I know it works! 

Wacom posted my video on their Tumblr!

Wacom posted my "Which Tablet Should I Buy?" video on their Tumblr! Pretty cool! Check it out below: 

http://wacom.tumblr.com/post/127646889579/a-testament-to-legacy-hardware-and-new-hardware

Preview pages from the FIRST LAW OF MAD SCIENCE Mixtape!

Cover by Jason Copeland & Pete Toms

Hey! In the midst of all this coloring education craziness, I'm still coloring comics! :) 

Here's a few pages from a short I recently completed for the FIRST LAW OF MAD SCIENCE Kickstarter. You can see the campaign here https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/819405516/first-law-of-mad-science-vol-1-work-until-your-fam

The short I colored was written by Amy Chu (WONDER WOMAN, X-O MANOWAR, POISON IVY) and drawn by Isaac Goodhart (POSTAL). 

Jim Zub blogs about Coloring Comics with Photoshop

Jim Zub's blog has been a fantastic resource for me. You may know Jim from his work as a writer on Image's WAYWARD and SKULLKICKERS. He also writes FIGMENT for Marvel/Disney. He's a great artist as well. 

Image from www.jimzub.com Copyright © 2015 Zub Tales 

Image from www.jimzub.com Copyright © 2015 Zub Tales 

When I was first getting back into comics, I think I read almost every post he had on his website. It's just full of great articles and tutorials on all sorts of things comic-related. So I was really happy to learn that today that he posted about my coloring course, Coloring Comics with Photoshop, and added it to his list of comic-making resources.

"I wish I had something as clearly laid out and well organized as this course when I started digitally coloring my work. Needless to say, I recommend it for people who want to produce pro quality comic coloring."  - Jim Zub

Check out the full blog post on it here: http://www.jimzub.com/how-to-color-for-comics/

So thanks to Jim for the kind words! You can also find him on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/JimZub

New free lesson available at ColoringComics.com!

Hey people! I've made another free trial lesson available in my online coloring course!

The trial is free, and you can see two full tutorials now... one on flatting and one on color theory. No credit card/Paypal/blood of your first born required for the trial. :)

I'll only run this through the weekend, so click the image below to learn more: 

YouTube Q & A

Hey people, I'm going to be putting together a Q&A video for YouTube with some frequently asked questions, but I need some more questions!

If there's a question you'd like to see answered, drop a comment here, and I'll answer it in an upcoming video very soon. You can also email me at info@comiccolor.com if you like.

Also, expect a time-lapse version of the Rob Liefeld #Deadpool coloring video to drop today!

Post-Creative Con post!

I had a great time at Panama City Creative Con! Thanks to everyone that came out! I didn't have time to take many pictures, but here's what I have! :) 

Coloring projects

It's been a while since I updated you guys on what I'm working on, so I thought I'd let you know what I can. Most of my work for the last few months has been on pitches. They're all in different stages of the process at various publishers, so I really can't talk about any of them yet! 

I do hope to be able to announce something soon. I'm working with guys that I've been a big fan of for a long time, so it's exciting. Hopefully, I can share soon!

 

An email from a Spanish coloring course student

It still blows my mind that so many people are learning how to color comics in my course. Over sixty countries are represented now! I received this email today from one of my newest students: 

"My name is [XXXXXX] and I recently purchased your course. I'm a Spanish architect, and I don't know why, all of a sudden I find myself enrolled in the comic world. I've been asked to learn the ropes of colouring comics with Photoshop in order to take some projects.

Even though I knew many things about Photoshop because of my job (well, here in Spain there´s no job for an architect), I wanted to learn from a professional. I just wanted to thank you because of your great effort to make every lesson understandable.

You see, I'm Spanish and I almost understand everything! I want to let you know that you'll be hearing from me, at the moment I'm browsing the course to catch the overall idea, but I'm going to get down to work very soon and I'll be needing your advice in the forum section."

So cool!
KMR

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