Legion World Forums LEGION OUTPOST Bits o' Legionnaire Business Reboot's colouring (now with inking)

Just finished colouring this for fun and realised I didn't have anywhere to post it here [I'll repost other stuff I've done that I'm vaguely happy with later]

Honest feedback welcomed, but please, be gentle

Love it, nice work SoM! More, more, more!

Beautiful Wanda pic! The colors look spot on and I like the shine that's etched into her cape and costume. Gives the outfit a bit more depth instead of clothes painted on.

Looks great SoM. Love Wanda's hair. If I had to pick a nit it would be her face. The coloring there looks a bit heavy as if, where it a photo, she is wearing too much makeup. It washes out her features a bit.

A few more, to fill this out:

And some more:

And from the Burgos thread:

Cool -- the last two are nice and moody. I'm glad you decided to start your own thread!

I like the moody ones best too, ESPECIALLY the Tasmia-on-black-background, very luminous, and very red-hair Zoe with the Eye...

But the Triad sketch is lovely, the colours go perfectly with the style and the white-purple-orange roses are superb.

The anti-moody: A shadowless (near enough) Mary Marvel pic [Few little bits that are "off", with line edges & the bottom left, but it's near enough to post]

I like it! I think non-moody is definitely more in-character for Mary Marvel.

These are all fantastic, I love your Mary Marvel!

Just coloured a Phil Moy XS for fun there:

In the interests of Thread Conservation, reviving this old thread to post an attempt at INKING I made on a Jeff Moy Kinetix image (it isn't 100% finished, but it's been lying for over a week with no progress, so I might as well post.)

Feedback is, as ever, appreciated - short of "tHAT SuCKZ" , of course]

Side-by-side with the original pencil scan I used:

Very nice and true to the pendils.. The only thing I could say needs a little work would be the hair flowing behind her, but that may be due to the fact that there is no coloring effects in it.. But believe me...tons better than I could do.

I'm so glad to see some of your work and not just blank spots!
I just knew they'd be fun!

I love your inking of Zoe, perfect, I think.
The Umbra's are all lovely and Wanda is fantastic!

Thank-you!

Tried inking another Moy, a She-Ra this time. I took on board what you said about the hair, Dev, so I tried something different there this time. I wasn't quite as faithful to the original pencils though

I would be happy to give an in-depth critique if you'd like, Reboot.

Overall, I say it's nice but needs some fine tuning. PLEASE keep it up!

I'm talking about your last 2 inking pieces, btw.

Please do! Like I said, any critique other than a flat "It sUcKz" can only help.

The hair on She Ra looks better with the 'texture" you gave it.

Another one, Apparition this time (looking at it again, there are a few bits I'd tweak, but it's just about okay to post. And, no, I didn't downscale the original - that's the scan I worked from, in the size I found it):

'Boot, I think these all look great! The Tinya one is my favorite.

Do you have a specific computer program you use to ink?

With the Moy pics, I would think the natural inclination is a 'less is more' approach simply because his art always looks upbeat and bright. Is there a temptation to darken things up a bit?

Thanks

Just The Gimp + a cheap graphics tablet.

I'm a tad confused on whether you mean (A) "Are you tempted to try non-Moy pics, by less upbeat artists?" or (B) "Are you tempted to make the Moy pics darker?"

For (A), the answer's "Sure, but I'm still learning/practicing (I've only taken four pics to relative completion, the first of which went badly enough that it's deleted forever ) & clean art like Moy's seems a bit easier to start with" and "I've got a lot more Moy pics handy than pictures by other artists".

For (B), not that much in the ones I've done - there's more hatching in the Apparition than the Kinetix, because it seemed to lend itself better, but there doesn't seem like much point in playing "against" the basic image. Maybe if I found a Moy picture that seemed to lend itself more to going darker, I would, but I can't see myself scratching up or otherwise heavily shadowing a picture like that Zoë soon.

Looks good to my eyes!