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Eric Russ
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I believe the images that Joe posted above are both computer colored.

The one on the right is a bit overdone to me because the highlights makes my eye journey, rather than giving the piece focus.
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Computer coloring is just like CGI in modern movies.  It's a valuable tool that artists should not deny themselves access to.  However, when using the tools it is important to realize that just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.

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Yes...... like making cloth shiny!! 
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Martin Redmond
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I don't like Dave Stewart's colour combinations at all. It seems like they're constantly clashing and there's never any feeling that any visual plane is in front or behind one another.

I prefer flat tones, and a nice palette that works together. Some shading is okay. I don't mind. But I like flat for inked art the best most of the time.



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Joe,
I agree with you. Too many so called "colourists" don't know the first thing about colour theory. Most times the colouring over powers the rest of the art and that isn't what should be happening. A colourist should compliment the inked or penciled (too many times a colourist turns a pencil only page to mud) not over power them
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Tim Farnsworth
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I have to confess, I've never heard anyone express dislike for Dave Stewart's coloring. Maybe you're talking about another Dave Stewart, though. An evil Dave Stewart.
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It seems like they're constantly clashing and there's never any feeling that
any visual plane is in front or behind one another.
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Martin, would you post a sample or two?
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Chad Carter
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Those Grummett pencils are ruined by all that glossy whatever it is going on.

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Mike Norris
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Yes...... like making cloth shiny!! 

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And skin!

And leather!

And sand!

And grass!

And cardboard!

 

 

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Chad Carter
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The rest of the world thinks older comic book fans are fogeys. We "don't know what's good" because we're "too stuck in the past."

The reason pencils, scripts, inking, coloring, and lettering in comics exist is because fogeys when young loved the comics they read growing up.

The reason pencils, scripts, inking, coloring and lettering changed into what it is now is because all those young fogeys became older, bored anarchist professionals within the medium. Bored being the operative word, thus the need to "change" what worked for decades before all that innovation.

 

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"Jean, you are wicked cool"?

Did Rogue absorb the psyche of a Bostonian?
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Where's Carol Danvers from?
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