Gnomon Workshop - Comic Book Coloring With Steve Firchow (ENG)

In this third DVD of a seriessf on comic book illustration techniques, Steve Firchow gives an overview of how to color a comic cover from beginning to end in Adobe Photoshop . He begins with setting up a piece of black and white line art and describes his process for choosing colors, making rendering decisions and balancing color, light and detail. In addition, he discusses techniques for improving speed and the differences between coloring covers vs. interior comic pages.
Topic Covered
Preparing Black & White Line Art for Color in Photoshop
Establishing a Foundation of Light/dark Values
Picking/Establishing a Palette
Working with Imported Textures
Finishing/Balancing Final Colors and Values

Chapters
01. Setting up Black + White line art
02. foundation gradients + textures
03. border colors
04. decorative elements / flags / mountains
05. Mountains / buildings / the horse
06. Finishing the horse
07. Starting the figure: Skin tones
08. Rendering the hair / starting the armor
09. Detailing the armor
10. Rendering the cape + swords
11. Rendering the shield / tweaks + cleanup
12. creating depth + separation
13. color + value balance / light bloom
14. RGB/CMYK conversion

INSTRUCTOR BIO
Steve Firchow is a 2D and 3D artist with fifteen years of experience in commercial illustration and comic book coloring and five years in console game development. He has collaborated with many premiere artists in the comic industry and has created traditional and digital illustrations for Image Comics, Darkhorse Comics, Mattel, Sega, TSR, Wizards of the Coast, Ace Books and many other advertising and publishing agencies. While continuing as a freelance illustrator he began working full-time in game development in 2002. He worked on Call of Duty: Finest Hour doing mainly texturing and storyboards and is currently the art director on Spark Unlimited's first person shooter, Legendary.

Video codec: QuickTime
Video: MOV, SVQ3 Sorenson Video 3, 1846 kbps, 1024 x 768
Audio: 22050Hz, sowt: 16-bit signed little-endian
Instructor: Steve FIRCHOW
Formats: Mac or PC only

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