My thoughts on a topic that affects ALL aspiring comic artists.

[Chris Wallace]

Never thought I'd see this.

[spideyboy_1111]

told ya so... sometimes black reflects light making it look blue

[Chris Wallace]

That panther looks like one of the aliens in Avatar.

Originally Posted by spideyboy_1111

told ya so... sometimes black reflects light making it look blue

Yes, sometimes. But not ALL the time.

[spideyboy_1111]

Originally Posted by Chris Wallace

That panther looks like one of the aliens in Avatar.


Yes, sometimes. But not ALL the time.

and in comics it's not "always" blue...

[Chris Wallace]

Are you still denying that many colorists go overboard?

[spideyboy_1111]

at times, but i also think you make it a huge ass bigger deal then it needs to be... hell look at your icon even... white light on black floor = blue

[Chris Wallace]

You're the second person to tell me I make it a bigger deal than it needs to be. And maybe I do. But I like things to look the way they're supposed to look. And we should know what color somebody's wearing in any given image.

[spideyboy_1111]

Originally Posted by Chris Wallace

You're the second person to tell me I make it a bigger deal than it needs to be. And maybe I do. But I like things to look the way they're supposed to look. And we should know what color somebody's wearing in any given image.

that's just it though... with art it's rarely about things just looking like they do with your eyes. Art makes things visually more interesting by skewing what you see a bit.

[antmanx68]

ha, this is the head off a Batman pic my brother and I did prior to Batman Begins coming out, I haven't seen it in years, haha. I'm also not a fan of using blue simply because it then makes the costume "blue" in people's mind so far as to make statues and toys and stuff blue as well when the intended color was always black. It was used out of necessity when early colorists didn't have a practical way to make something black without just inking the entire thing... but people still use it. I guess it doesn't look bad on the page, and people don't think that Bruce Wayne or Clark Kent have blue hair, it just bugs me that we get BLUE Batman stuff to this day even though Batman is always said to wear black in the comics (even ones where they color his cape and cowl blue). No biggie though.

Just my thought... funny to see that pic pop up in the thread though.

[Chris Wallace]

Originally Posted by antmanx68

ha, this is the head off a Batman pic my brother and I did prior to Batman Begins coming out, I haven't seen it in years, haha. I'm also not a fan of using blue simply because it then makes the costume "blue" in people's mind so far as to make statues and toys and stuff blue as well when the intended color was always black. It was used out of necessity when early colorists didn't have a practical way to make something black without just inking the entire thing... but people still use it. I guess it doesn't look bad on the page, and people don't think that Bruce Wayne or Clark Kent have blue hair, it just bugs me that we get BLUE Batman stuff to this day even though Batman is always said to wear black in the comics (even ones where they color his cape and cowl blue).

Which is my point. This is why West (& later, Clooney) wound up wearing blue.

[Chris Wallace]

I just don't want it overdone. The Jim Lee BP pic that I posted previously is just plain unjustifiable.