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I adore these, they look fantastic!

You've really mastered lighting in these, Loser -- but you have for some time, now.

The Wonder Girl immediately above is especially subtle, and notable because of it. I'm struck by how often such 2D blondes are made to look artificial in their hair color, for no reason I've understood, but this one isn't.

Kinetix is genuinely animating Christmas-tree lights, and the glow of the colors makes all the difference. That's one of the better examples (though they're all good ones) of how a good colorist can be a collaborator, more than an afterthought.

I'm also glad you got a fully inked Kid Q from Dean to bring out so well, especially those purples. He hasn't been choosing to use his own sizable finishing talents very much lately (broad and unsubtle hint ... {g})

Nice work Loser Lad

Thanks for the compliments all. And thanks to Grey for taking the time to comment.

Probably more than anything I've struggled to try to create realistic lighting, and while I think I've improved a bit it's still something I don't feel I've completely gotten down. I have quite a few unfinished pieces where I just can't seem to get the lighting right. But, as I said I think I'm getting better with it, and I'm glad the effects are noticible in the finished products.

Thanks again for taking the time to comment. I appreciate it!

Well, as I always say, one good Wonder Girl deserves another. Here's the original Wonder Girl, in her original costume. Pencils by Christopher Rich-McKelvey.

BTW, I recently found Christopher Rich-McKelvey's website, and he's got a lot of really nice sketches there. Check it out! Warning though, for those who are bothered by such things, there are some nudes and partial nudes there, so beware.

http://www.baldguystudios.com/

Wondergirl looks fantastic. Some very cool art on that site too, though i've only looked at a few pieces yet

There's a good example of what I was saying in the PBOL Gallery thread about working in a color that will do what you want it to and then changing it later with adjustment layers. Everything in that picture except the skin tone, the gold on her top and the background gradient was colored in the same medium shade of blue, and then changed after the fact with adjustment layers. In fact the top and the shorts (including the white stars on the shorts) were all colored on the same layer in the same color. Shading and highlights were done with the "Burn" and "Dodge" tools.

Don't know if that technique would apply to photomanipping, though I don't see why it wouldn't.

Another Rich-Mckelvey piece. As a fan of the Giffen/DeMatteis Justice League, I really dig this one.

more i see your colours the more i like 'em

Here's dedman's Element Lad tribute colored.

Here's another Wonder Girl, this one by Jeff Moy...

Here's another Jeff moy piece, this time it's Stargirl of the JSA, formerly known as the Star Spangled Kid.

One of my favorite cartoons/comics growing up was GI Joe. One of my favorite Joes was Snake Eyes. When you look up the term "bad-ass" in the dictionary, there should be a picture of Snake Eyes next to it. Anyway, here's Mr. Bad-ass himself, drawn by Jonboy Meyers.

Awesome job on colouring my piece, awesome to finally see it in colour too...thanks for posting to my thread too. Mind if i put it up on my site? (once that gallery is ready)....
The other three are great too; Wonder Girl is reat as usual; Star spangled kid is exceptional IMHO, and Sanke-eyes is well....Snake-eyes

Lou, I have to say the more i see of your colouring work the less difference i can tell between you and "professional" colourists. (if that makes sense)

I really would like to see how your work looks on an actual page of a comic.

Actually I would love to see if your work could improve that old hero machine avitar I made of my self. (hint hint)

Makes sense to me (though I'm not quite sure I agree...). Thanks Darden.

I haven't really done any sequential stuff except for that Matter Eater Lad and Karate Kid page I posted earlier in this thread, but that was a long time and a lot of practice ago. Personally I don't really think that page was that well done, but I was just starting out then. If I can find some decent, hi res page scans out there that interest me I'll try coloring them just to see what happens.

As far as the Hero Machine Faraway goes, I'd be happy to give it a shot. I'm assuming there's still a version of that posted on the Yahoo Group or Outpost somewhere.

Love, love, love the Loser Lad/Viviane pic!

I do too. It was Viv's idea to manipulate Freeky's Dreamer & Star Boy pic into Viv and Lou, and I'm really glad she suggested it!

I've got a couple of new ones to post. First is a Cockrum/Grell era Shrinking Violet drawn by Shawn Van Briesen:

Finally got around to coloring one of my favorite Legion-related sketches, Matter Eater Lad by Ty Templeton...

One more Legion-related one. I've wanted to color this Jeff Moy Triad pic for a long time, and finally got around to it...

The next two are pics I started coloring over the summer and just recently finished off. Since I started doing these I've totally changed my techniques, so it was a little weird going back to these after so long.

Actually, I guess Supergirl's Legion-related too (although this is based on the Post-Crisis costume design), so I guess here's one more Legion-related one, drawn by Al Rio...

Last one for now. This was another one I started over the summer and came back to finish just recently. I've always had a hard time with backgrounds, and this one has a fairly complicated background. That's probably why I stopped working on it in the first place. Didn't turn out too badly, but I'm still not completely happy with it. Anyhow, here's Jade by Darryl Banks.

They're great.

I really like the Supergirl and Jade ones, they are pretty awesome.

I just like things that include me , I'm vain that way.