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Gotta admit, I was a little unsure when I came to colour this page. Back in the old black and white days, space was done with white paint and a toothbrush. I didn't want to go too far from the cartoony style of the art, but also wanted to try and get a nice looking space.
Any thoughts?
5 thoughts on “Dressed For Success Page 33”
Doug
actually most stars are not white. in fact the actual distribution follows the ROYGBIV sequence with most stars being small red and the fewest being giant violet. (with black and white at either end). So make it interesting, add some color. then paint some dark dust clouds on top of some of the denser regions, but gaussian blur out the stars and blend the clouds into that for an interior lighting effect like a star nursery. 🙂 Raw astronomical plates tend to be black and white because they have filters up the optical chain and are just looking at specific frequencies of light.
just my 0.02 worth, YMMV
Jeff
And what an informative 0.02 cents it is! Thanks for the learnin’ Doug. 🙂 We’ll definitely keep it in mind for future pages.
I was actually thinking the other day, when we get to the point of working on collecting this first Dressed for Success story in print form that it would be nice to go back and make adjustments to the colouring of pages based on things that we’d like to see enhanced.
Of course I haven’t run this idea past Chris yet who is the one actually doing the colouring right now. I’m not exactly sure what he will think of my “idea”. 😉
Chris
As I said, I wrestled with this a bit, and if you squint really hard, there are some colours in there, but I’m sure there could be more. The good news is, not only can we do colour or other edits before we go to printing a physical book, I could say… slip in and make changes and update the file at any time.
As previously shared, I suffered a USB key meltdown around New Years that took the first dozen or more pages of colour files with it, along with other things like the Mississauga Jay logo. (If you compare the poster we just did with the original teaser poster, you can see they are different.)
In the process of re-doing those lost files, I will never be able to replicate the entirely, and I’ll take the opportunity to hopefully make things more consistent. One example is how I handle motion lines. I toyed with a blur effect, but thought it actually looked to much like an effect, so instead have opted for a range of values across the motions arc. It sadly doesn’t come across in the first panel of this page.
Y’know what? I bet if you come back and look at this page again on Friday, it will be different…
Archangel
I really hope the shape of the van’s track is a Galaxy Railways reference. ^_^
Jeff
Sorry to say Archangel, but it isn’t a reference to Galaxy Railways. I wasn’t even aware that was a show. Although both Chris and I grew up on early Japanese anime shows that came to North America in the 80’s such as Battle of the Planets, Star Blazers, Force Five and Robotech.
What you saw as train tracks were intended to be motion lines of the delivery van flying in space. Perhaps we should have kept them as solid black lines to avoid such confusion.
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