Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Color Test



This one was just another bit of practice in Photoshop coloring. I seem to remember reading a short story by Stephen King about a young kid who is fishing and ends up meeting the devil, and as I recall, King described the devil as having flaming eyes or something to that effect. I wonder if the eye coloring here was a result of that? Guess I should make notes as I am working on these things. I wasn't overly happy with the colors on this guy until today- he is working for me now. It was interesting coloring on top of the stippled black and white line art, I had to be really careful not to get too dark as the stippling adds a lot of blacks to the whole thing. This character was an early development idea for use on a heavy metal band's CD cover.

4 comments:

Hans said...

Hey Patrick,

Looks great! You seem to be handling the coloring pretty well. Been playing around with some photoshop coloring myself lately. A bit scarry in the beginning, but fun once you get started. Just out of curiosity, do you do a lot of poster designs? your style suits it very well.

Keep up the good work:)

Hans

Lou said...

Looks really good. The eyes really glow on my laptop screen.

I can't wait until my graphics tablet comes next week. I'm tired of my touch pad on my laptop.

Can't wait to really start playing with Photoshop and Illustrator.

Teemu Jäppinen said...

Very cool! I love the patternish-thing you did with the head on the background.

Eliza Jäppinen said...

My favorite part is the pattern of heads in the back... It's a really fun touch. :)