Well a new Comics Experience class has begun. this time I'm learning COLORING. More specifically, this week I've been learning to flat. The image is a very small chunk of my first attempt at a page.
This coloring business is strange new territory for me. I have been obsessed with line for so long the colors have largely been an afterthought in terms of drawing. With paintings they color issues mostly come as the result of experimentation. Other than generally working from dark to light there isn't much of a system to it when I paint. I'm excited to see if that changes after this class.
One thing I've noticed already is that there is a certain level of mental involvement with coloring (flatting so far) that is very comfortable. I'm looking at the line work and analyzing it for complete shapes, and tracing outlines... it keep you mentally busy but the stress level is a lot lower that when starting from an empty page.
I do realize that I know next to nothing about what color popular superhero costumes are supposed to be. Still, it has been nice to be able to finish a page of flats in just a couple of hours - Hopefully I'll get faster - or do simpler pages - at some point, but so far so good.
