By: GURU-eFX, Various Publisher: Antarctic Press Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: Antarctic Press Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 96 Publication Date: December 15, 2002
Product Description: This indispensible guide to coloring comics on the computer using Photoshop., the industry standard, will take you step-by-step through the scanning stage, laying flats, rendering an image, and all the way to the finished product. The guide also covers coloring in layers and/or channels, making custom brushes, backgrounds and special effects, and working in various rendering styles, such as mainstream, anime, and fully painted.
One-of-a-kind book This book is really really HARD to obtain. There are only a handful of publications of this book. If you have a copy of it (like I do), don't part with it!!
There are about 100 pages in this book, which are colored obviously. It covers almost ALL the computer graphic (CG) coloring aspect known in the comic industry. Everything from basic color layout to sophisticated special effect (like making clouds, glowing eyes, etc). Art are referenced to the Antartic Press Studio (like Gold Digger, etc).
Again, I can't say how impressed this book is. It is loaded with information (i.e., one page have typically 2-4 smaller panels in it). If you can master all the materials in this book, you should start looking for a syndicate/sponsor. Please remember a couple of notes: 1) this book is mainly focused on comics (particularly anime-style), though you can applies these to real-life illustrations; 2) this book requires you to have Adobe Photoshop (any full version from 3.0 to 7.0, LE-versions would not work); and 3) lastly, this book demands that you got your drawing basics down! It does not cover any drawing instructions at all. So before you start up your Photoshop, you should see that your drawing foundation is firm.
This book also includes a CD (that's why the list price is so high). CD includes all the black and white images for you to practice. It also has lesson images (images with notes on it). And a large array of custom brushes and color swatches that will greatly improve the productivity of your coloring. This is one-of-a-kind book and you can't find anything similar to this. If you can't get this, there is another publication coming out called "How to Color for Comics." I predict it will be similar but with even more details. Highly recommended.
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