[fasola]

I had some time off, and I spent it looking at my monitor for hours coloring images.
ANd here they are.
Tell me what you think, PLEASE.
I live on Feedback.

[gettar82]

very good the she hulk colouration! i like it!!

[TheGov]

If this is the result of a fever, I hope you stay sick awhile longer.  I especially like the Cancuz pic.  I've always been curious – is the second hand coloring I've seen on the boards here done directly off the computer or do you print it off, color it, then scan it back in?  Either way, yours looks great.  Thanks for sharing.

The Gov

[Jack]

Great colouring!  Have you done some colouring for LH Art too?  If so that was also great.  Thanks for those hours colouring these pics

[zasalamel]

very well the one strained of cancuz

[10-4]

They are all looking pretty good.

[up2nogd1]

Great Job!  Your shading really adds to the drawings.  Thanks for sharing.

[TC2]

Fasola I've been watching you're color works for the longest time, there are sometimes where you really knock it out of the park and other days where it looks like you're still practicing.

So because I want to see you color more things and improve I'm going to suggest a few things to you:

– It looks like you're obviously using the burn tools to add shading, though this is a great tool to use, you are using a much too severe burn on some of the pictures.  So I would assume you would be using "shadows" under the burn feature, which although can come in handy for obviously making shadows.  You use it throughout the entire image and this is in turn detracting from the illustration.

– You're also not using enough colors, you seem to put a flat color on the image and then just use burn tool to do the rest.  Although this is a fast way to get a project done it makes the color job look boring and lacks a bit of life.  If you look at DCM's coloring and Eegore's coloring you will see an entire plethora of colors being used to color their images.

– Also, you're lighting seems to be all over the place.  In your most recent colorization of Ms. Marvel it looks like you randomly selected where the hair gets darker making it seem like you were guessing where to put colors.  Instead pick a point where light is coming from and try to color in that fashion.

– You need to start using more tools besides the burn tool, there's a variety of different brushes and modes that you can turn on to give you an even better coloring job than what you're making now.  If you click on the brush tool and set it to "multiply" with a different color or even a variety of the different options you can create some truly amazing pieces.

– Lastly, the skin colors you're choosing are just much too dark.  It gives them such a severe look that it just doesn't look natural, it doesn't look like it would come out of a comic book.  Try to use lighter colors instead and use the extreme dark ones for very serious and dark moments.

That's all I've got for you Fasola, you seem to have a real -want- to color so I would like to see you utilize what I've suggested to you and see your newest works.

[X-Greg]

I'm not a specialiste as some of the members here, I've try to color a few picture and your job is a lot lot lot better than mine, then I'll say, great job Rodrigo, always happy to discover your posts. 😛

[fasola]

Fasola I've been watching you're color works for the longest time, there are sometimes where you really knock it out of the park and other days where it looks like you're still practicing.

So because I want to see you color more things and improve I'm going to suggest a few things to you:

– It looks like you're obviously using the burn tools to add shading, though this is a great tool to use, you are using a much too severe burn on some of the pictures.  So I would assume you would be using "shadows" under the burn feature, which although can come in handy for obviously making shadows.  You use it throughout the entire image and this is in turn detracting from the illustration.

– You're also not using enough colors, you seem to put a flat color on the image and then just use burn tool to do the rest.  Although this is a fast way to get a project done it makes the color job look boring and lacks a bit of life.  If you look at DCM's coloring and Eegore's coloring you will see an entire plethora of colors being used to color their images.

– Also, you're lighting seems to be all over the place.  In your most recent colorization of Ms. Marvel it looks like you randomly selected where the hair gets darker making it seem like you were guessing where to put colors.  Instead pick a point where light is coming from and try to color in that fashion.

– You need to start using more tools besides the burn tool, there's a variety of different brushes and modes that you can turn on to give you an even better coloring job than what you're making now.  If you click on the brush tool and set it to "multiply" with a different color or even a variety of the different options you can create some truly amazing pieces.

– Lastly, the skin colors you're choosing are just much too dark.  It gives them such a severe look that it just doesn't look natural, it doesn't look like it would come out of a comic book.  Try to use lighter colors instead and use the extreme dark ones for very serious and dark moments.

That's all I've got for you Fasola, you seem to have a real -want- to color so I would like to see you utilize what I've suggested to you and see your newest works.

Thanks, TC2, thanks a lot.
I really apreciate this kind of reply.
I do use the burn tool, but I use it in many different ways, and with it's multiple options (I have ps in my home language, so i don't have a clue about the names in english). I want to improve my style and skills that's for sure.
Now, I do like the way that high contrast gives to the images. I could try a more "realistic" type of coloring,  and I have to use more colors. However, and this is my own personal opinion, and even having this point of view, I like almost everybody's work, I feel that the new style of coloring that is being used, and in comics too, where the art lines are almost invisible, because of the way they are painted, is not my cup of tea. I read them, and like it, but I feel that the art line becomes secondary, and the coloring is more important (all the New Avengers series, spider-woman origin, etc.). I believe that the color just enhances what the penciler and/or inker already did.
All this explanation takes me to the point where I explain why I do all my works in front line light (I don't know a better way yto put it). You see, as I explained before, the color is just the fruit of the cake, the important thing is the base art. So, if the artist draws the ihghlights and the shadows in ink The image has it's lighting, and the color just enhance it. If the art line is plain and smooth simple lines, for me the image is centered, so i color it like that.

All this is to explain some of the struggle inside my head, not a complain. I REALLY feel that there is a lot to improve, and feedback is the bast way to know. Thanks again TC2.

Oh, and about the skin color, I get them from a sample pallette I downloaded some time ago. I might Lighten them a little.

Thanks again.

Fasola

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