A Comics Color Tutorial - Sara Turner

Having a black and white comic, I don't fully color pieces too often. Since the chance presented itself, I thought I'd show you how I color. And I'm not saying that this the right or even easiest way to do things. This is just the way I approach digital coloring.

This particular piece will be a future File 49 poster. Let's see how I created it!



Sketches

These are the few thumbnail sketches that I did before actually attempting the piece. This was my first time trying a scene from a worm's eye view and I was a little nervous about how to appropriatly distort my character's anatomy. But figuring that there is also a slight "fish-eye" look around the scene, I wasn't hung-up about perfect persepctive.


My Work Area

This is where I work on my comics...my desk...my space.

 
Pencils

First, I sketch my scene out with an automitic pencil with non-photo blue lead. Then go over the lines I want to ink with regular lead.
<--- It ends up looking like this.


Tools I use regularly:

Non-photo blue pencil, regular .5mm automatic pencil, stick eraser (for small areas), regular eraser, ruler, Speedball Super-Black ink, 102 crow quill nib, .35 Rapidograph and a regular Sharpie.
Now that everything is inked, I'm ready to scan and start coloring.
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