Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Golden Girl Volume 1 Color Commission

Comic book art comes in three steps, pencils, inks, and color and these are done by separate artists for each step. The process works better that way as each artist focuses on their part only and ensures that quality work is done and deadlines are met.
These days when most artists use digital media which is also preferred by clients and publishers there are a lot of artists can do all steps especially for self-published or indie books.
As a freelance comic book illustrator I mostly just do pencil and ink digitally and only color pin-ups, covers or my own non-commissioned art. It's a breather when I get to do just colors for a project or commission because I get to practice a different aspect of creativity by bringing to life somebody else's work. Being at the finishing part of completing a comic book art, I get to do one of the most enjoyable things about being an artist -collaboration. You're mostly free to interpret a piece according to how it is scripted just as you would be at the line art stage but at this point you'd have to note what the penciler's vision was as much as interpreting the writer's script.
This collab with Healthy Fetish was of somewhat adult-themed superhero parody nature but does not contain nudity or sexual themes. You may get your copy of the complete volume 1 on itch.io.




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