Ross Hughes Colors Thread

[RHughes]

My name is Ross Hughes and I'm a freelance colorist, full time contributor to the space program and all around smart a$$. Look forward to meeting and greeting many of you in my travels through cyberspace, and maybe even planet earth.

Feel free to hurl insults, comment, critique, bow down, throw money, name your children after me, whatever.....

I'll start off with some older stuff, and then update as I go along.

This was my first attempt at coloring a pic. Yikes!

Art by Ed McGuinness

This was one of the first pictures I colored when I trying to learn. Better than my first to be sure.

Art by Brian Bolland

Nightcrawler is, without a doubt my second favorite character behind Batman. And Alan Davis is the best at drawing him in my opinion. I couldn't pass this up, and I'm eagerly awaiting the day I can go back and rework this using what I've learned.

These are some pages that I greyscaled for the SPA Idol '06 contest of at the Dimestore Website.
Art by Ben Jones
Inks by Carmen Imperato

 

[RHughes]

A couple covers I did for issues of The Cadre

Artist: ??

Then there was Fallen Justice. You may have heard of it. If you haven't heard of it. You need to!

Art by Harold Edge

And then there was Idol '07 entry Advent.

Art by Ben Jones
Inks by Tom Schloendorn

 

[RHughes]

Did I mention that George Perez is the MAN?

Wannabez is coming your way. Just as soon as I find some time to greyscale it. *sigh*

Art by Scott Simmons

Lobo, the main man. Not to be confused with George Perez is just simply the MAN!!!

Art by Sandoval

These are a couple of pieces I colored in tribute to the late great Mike Wieringo. RIP Mike.

Ah, Batman and werewolves. A match made in heaven. Or the sewers.

Art by Dustin Nguyen
Inks by Derek Fridolfs

 

[RHughes]

Did I mention that I color Fallen Justice? Please buy multiple copies. Please?

I did this as a real quickie. Took about an hour, which is really impressive considering I'm slow as molasses.

Pencils by Chris Bachalo
Inks by Tim Townsend

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[RHughes]

Deadgirl

Art by Harold Edge

The oft colored Wildstorm submission Superman piece.

Art by MR. Kirby

A logo I designed for my day job at United Space Alliance. I work with the Photo/TV group to provide camera, video recorders, power cables, ect. to the Space Shuttle and the group wanted to design a logo that could be used on T-shirts and mugs and such.

A pin up I colored for Emissary #5. They went with a different version (with a yellow background) than this one, but I liked this best.

Pencils by Ben Jones
Inks by Tom Schloendorn

And last a movie poster design for a B movie. The elements were meant to be split further apart on the poster itself with the title in the center acting as the lightsource. Still waiting to be paid for that nearly two years later....... <_<

A project I was working on that seems to have fallen through the cracks the way so many independant books do, was The Veil. Hopefully, we can pick it back up, but until then, here are a couple of pages I can show.

Pencils by Mariano Del Toro

 

[RHughes]

Here's a page from the 3rd issue of Fallen Justice.

Business is definitely about to pick up.

Lines by Harold Edge
Colors by me

I did this one real quick while in between working pages of Fallen Justice.

Whatchu think?

Pencils by Chris Bachelo
Inks by Tim Townsend

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This is a promo piece featuring the characters from Red Handed Studios.

Art by Harold Edge
Colors by Ross Hughes

Wolvianna Jones!!!

I've had this pic in my stash for a while now, and even made a feeble attempt at it when I was first learning how to color. Well, with the movie out now, my wife asked me to re-do the pic for her, so here it is.

Pencils by Adam Hughes
Inks by Tim Townsend

Quick warm-up using watercolor brushes in Photoshop.

Pencils by Justin Copeland

Tim Townsend posted this con sketch on his DA page, and I figured it would make a good warm-up piece. I spent a little less than a hour and a half from start to finish on it. What do you guys think?

Art by Tim Townsend.

 

[RHughes]

I colored this on Friday while I was bored out of my mind at work.

Pencils by Marcio Takara

Had this pic in my stash for a while now, and just never got around to coloring it. I've been on a bit of an X-men kick for a little while now, so here we go.

Pencils by Carlos Gomez

Some more Fallen Justice pages. These are from issue #4.

Lines by Harold Edge

I guess that's it for now. Hopefully I'll have some more that I can post in the near future. Until then, let me know what you think. Where I can improve, things I can try differently, ect. You won't hurt my feelings. I don't seem to have any.

 

[Asteroid-Man]

Amazing stuff!

 

[RAMORE]

Pretty good stuff ther you poozer.




Well you said call you names

 

[RHughes]

Pretty good stuff ther you poozer.




Well you said call you names

Man, I give you free liscense like that, and that's the best you can come up with??? t:

 

[RHughes]

One more from Fallen Justice and then I've got to get back to work. I'm hoping to have time to finish a Joker pic before the weekend as well.

 

[Johann Krauss]

nice

 

[RHughes]

The Dark Knight was without a doubt the best movie I've seen in years (if not ever), so when I saw this Joker drawing over on DA, I just had to color it. What do you think?

Pencils by Jose Jaro http://lazeedog.deviantart.com/

Colors by Ross Hughes

 

[RHughes]

This is the 1st part of the cover to Fallen Justice #5. I plan on working the second part this weekend. The final image will be that of a shattered picture laying on a table. Anger management. :shake: I'll post the final image in here once it's finished. In the mean time, tell me what you think.

Art by Harold Edge

 

[RAMORE]

Really good stuff do you draw or just color?

 

[chuckymack]

I like your colors, but that artist is kinda poopy. Your company needs to hire ME to draw. Then we could make beautiful comic babies together. Not that I'm gay or anything.

 

[Comic_maniac]

man, you are amazing at coloring


what program do you use

 

[spiderfan08]

dude amazing stuff..i also colored that pic of sgt rock and dude..it looks almost EXACTLY like yours. not saying you stole it..b/c there is no way you could have. but man, kinda weird huh? :P

keep it up man

 

[nightcrawler29]

awesome coloring dude

 

[draculaakumajou]

pro

 

[RHughes]

Thanks, everyone!

RAMORE - I used to draw, but I haven't done it seriously in years, so I doubt I could produce much that I would be happy with anymore.

Chuckymack - Thanks for your comments, but I will have to respectfully disagree with you on Harold's art. In fact, he's one of my favorite artists, and I think it's a shame that his style isn't what's "in" in mainstream comics right now. The high road is over that way. You might want to take it every once in a while.

Comic-Maniac - I work pretty much exclusively in Photoshop CS2, although I'm trying to find the time to teach myself Painter as well. I really want to branch out and try different things with that program.


Here is the final version of the cover:

 

[RHughes]

dude amazing stuff..i also colored that pic of sgt rock and dude..it looks almost EXACTLY like yours. not saying you stole it..b/c there is no way you could have. but man, kinda weird huh? :P

keep it up man

Great minds and all that.....t:

 

[Comic_maniac]

Comic-Maniac - I work pretty much exclusively in Photoshop CS2, although I'm trying to find the time to teach myself Painter as well. I really want to branch out and try different things with that program.

thats cool. do you know of any good tutorials for your style of coloring.

 

[RHughes]

I did this one last year. I've learned a LOT since then, so it's probably time to do another one.

http://www.oratoryweb.net/oforums2/index.php?showtopic=39914&hl=


There are a ton of good tutorials out there though.

Mark Sweeney has a few really good ones that might be beneficial to you as well.

http://www.mark-sweeney.com/Site-Pages/Tutorials/PDF-Tutorials.html

 

[Comic_maniac]

thanks dude. i'll check 'em out