Some Perspective pgs 6-10

[ScottEwen]

[ScottEwen]

Forgot to say, this is written by Matt Anderson and is inspired by the songs of Bowling for Soup. It's going to be published by Paper+Plastick.

[shannonh]

They all look great. BUT the last three pages are AMAZING. Great work dude.

[Beastie]

Agreed. Those last 3 pages are really great.

[stoat]

Lovely stuff,part of me hopes for it to remain Black n White.

[ScottEwen]

Lovely stuff,part of me hopes for it to remain Black n White.

Thanks! Nope, it's in color. But it's not me coloring it, they got an actual pro colorist to do it so it should look good.

[ScottEwen]

The colorist has started to work on these pages now. Here's what they're going to look like (colored and lettered by Matt Jordan).

These aren't for critiques, just to give an idea how the pages will look like in print:

[ScottEwen]

The colors kind of bothered me a little so I decided to give the colorist a little critique via email. He hasn't replied yet so I'm hoping he takes it in the spirit in which it's intended.

I wanted to give you a little tip on the pages so far. I hope you don't mind, but I think there's a lot of room for improvement in what I'm seeing here. I'm not sure if these are finished pages but the colors seem to be very saturated, and there's not enough separation of tones to pop out the focal points. If you take these pages and convert them to grayscale, everything is pretty much the same color gray.

I like the idea of doing everything in one color depending on the scene, but if you're doing that I would suggest popping out planes that are closer to us with lighter shades. I've attached a page that I recolored very quickly (with a crappy mouse because I don't have my Wacom installed on this computer; please forgive how sloppy it is) to give you an idea what I mean. In each panel, it's very clear what is the focal point immediately because there's a contrast with the darker background. Even when you convert this to grayscale you can tell what's going on quickly and easily.

What I would probably do, however, to retain the monochromatic idea while still having everything be fully colored (having your cake and eating it too, in a way), is color everything in the scene like normal but then overlay a color layer on top at 20-40% opacity. I do that often for night time scenes (overlaying a blue layer on top) or a bright summer daytime scene (overlaying a yellow or bright orange layer), or sometimes just to unite the colors in a scene together.

I decided to quickly color a panel and show what I'm talking about. Attached are the original colors, and then the same panel with an overlay of blue-green, pink, and orange to show what the different scenes could look like if you used this method.