That's pretty awesome! 
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He-hey! Thanks a million, Lady 
You even made my mediocre glove look pretty Should'a posted Razor's rendition of it...
I love your colouring. And you did this in a day? I've been dicking around for a week on this, and produced something that was just above "meh," and you did this twice in two days. Yeah, I need a LOT of work if I want to even contemplate a large project like this.
I really like how this turned out. The reflections are just ingenious, and I really like that shading. I'll definitely spend some time studying this one.
One last detail - I'd like to repost this back to the original creators of the pic, and I want to ask of you would mind me doing so. We're sort of discussing it at length with them, and I'd really like to show them.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
One last detail - I'd like to repost this back to the original creators of the pic, and I want to ask of you would mind me doing so. We're sort of discussing it at length with them, and I'd really like to show them. |
As to doing it twice in a day, well since the flatting stage fills all the shaped areas with color... there is a simple box to click in Photoshop, so that any coloring you do, happens in that shape.
This makes coloring go a lot faster than trying to remain within the lines and worrying about going over them...
BUT and this is where I stress the problem, the file must be prepared correctly, so that all areas are filled with a flat basic color so that they can be selected with the wand tool later. Failing to do this "flatting stage" properly, will only allow you to color where the color ends. So if you have gaps of white everywhere, you either fix the gaps or color the same spaces with the gaps still showing.
It's not the only way to color, you can go for a more painterly look regardless of shapes, I have done some speed paintings that way, which are more about mood and color than being exact. However standard comic coloring requires a flat stage for best results AND the possibility of making corrections simpler.
Understood. Thank you for the help and for the permission. This is definitely something I'll want to look into, even if my own capability is questionable at best.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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Here is the original line art, the original coloring (not by me) and the fixed flats WITH Samuel Tow's vector drawn sword and gauntlet, done in Flash.
Okay off to work on the rendering... sorry I edited her butt cheek, it was throwing the silhouette off in my opinion.