step by step…3!

alright, so here we go with some color… since the highlights and shadows usually play a strong role in these, i start with deciding where the light source is coming from – for this one, it’s a dramatic up-lit image… laying in some highlight colors really sets the mood (and again, it lets the value of the paper play a big role in the finished colors)… i do all the colors on these with prismacolor colored pencils… from here, the next step will be laying in some darker values and some edge lighting and a contour to make it all pop…

hope everybody had a good week (and picked up their very own copy of the new haps trade that came out last week)… after being under the weather a bit (damn ick tearing though the house), had a great weekend with friends (some of whom have,alas , succumbed to said ick) and saw a great game at fenway on sunday with perfect weather for a game… finishing up the x-men story and jumping on a new supercool project at marvel for the same editor this week and getting everything ready to send issue 6 of the haps to image next week (finally!)
-c