Wednesday 11 August 2010

GOAL!!!

I've recently been lucky enough to have been given the colouring work the the David Beckham book for Bluewater productions Fame series. Similarly to all the colouring jobs I'm offered I view this as a great  and very enjoyable opportunity.

I've decided to spend some time here to give everyone an inside view of the colouring process that will help bring this book to life.
I start with the line art and script provided by Bluewater.

Before I start colouring I adjust the contrast and clean up the line art. Pablo Martinena's art is so clean it makes this part really easy.

I then choose an overall tone, this will help to tie all the colours together later on.

I then start to lay down the flat colours starting with the largest area of  a single colour. This really helps with the rest of the page. At this point I reference everything, I am very lucky as Peter Rogers script has included all the reference for me.

And then the rest of the flat colours.

I then re-apply the overall tone.

I then start adding the details, the highlights and the shadows using separate layers.


I then render the rest.

After this I add any highlights speedlines and other lighting effects required to make the piece pop.

And here's the finished piece... GOAL!!!

Following this here are a couple more pages coloured for this book. I hope everyone has enjoyed this inside look.

Sunday 27 June 2010

Winer wonderland

Here's a few pictures I took on one of my long and very very cold walks last January showing Britain's incredible winter. I have never seen snow like this before.













Recent Pages...

Hi! I'm aware I haven't up updated this site for quite a while. This is one of the problems with being a colourist, sometimes you're so busy you simply can't find the time to update web pages. It is good fun though.

Here's a selection of pages I've coloured over the last few months.

 


Here is a selection of pages for The legend of Isis for Bluewater productions.
These are some pages I've coloured for Female Force Nanci Pelosi for Bluewater productions.



Here's the cover for Velica 5 for Z Studioz. The line art is by Ken Johnson.