I just finished coloring a page for the editor of a book a friend of mine is inking. I’ve realized a couple things.
-After the last few years coloring with traditional mediums, coloring on the computer makes me feel disconnected from the work. This is part of the reason why I don’t color much digitally any more. There’s something about having the finished work in front of you, tangible. I can pick it up and say, “Here it is.” There are some amazing things people do in creating digital images…but right now, it’s just not my thing at all. I need to see it existing in really three dimensional space.
-Not having backgrounds to color in sequential art is frustrating, and unappealing. This is a lesson learned, because it’s easy for me to try and cut corners, especially when working on my own stories, and just let the background be taken care of in the coloring. I’m going to try to avoid that. Besides, it’s lazy.
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