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    The document discusses the coloring process for comic books. It explains that comic illustrations start in black and white, inked by an inker. Then a less experienced artist adds flats by coloring in different elements without regard to specific hues. This creates panels resembling vintage comics. The colorist then tweaks the flats, adding lighting, texture, and drama to create the final colored version. The reader is then instructed to download an image and practice flatting and coloring steps themselves.

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    The document discusses the coloring process for comic books. It explains that comic illustrations start in black and white, inked by an inker. Then a less experienced artist adds flats by coloring in different elements without regard to specific hues. This creates panels resembling vintage comics. The colorist then tweaks the flats, adding lighting, texture, and drama to create the final colored version. The reader is then instructed to download an image and practice flatting and coloring steps themselves.

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    Comic Colouring

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    Mason Lavery
    The document discusses the coloring process for comic books. It explains that comic illustrations start in black and white, inked by an inker. Then a less experienced artist adds flats by coloring in different elements without regard to specific hues. This creates panels resembling vintage comics. The colorist then tweaks the flats, adding lighting, texture, and drama to create the final colored version. The reader is then instructed to download an image and practice flatting and coloring steps themselves.

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    Graphic Novels

    & Comic Books


    Colouring
    (slides will get more colourful…)
    Today you are:
    a Marvel colourist
    (congratulations on your new job!)
    All comic illustrations start in black &
    white and are illustrated by an INKER
    FLATTING

    A less experienced artists comes along


    next and creates FLATS –

    Colouring in each different element

    It doesn’t matter what colour right now


    Now the comic panels look like
    vintage comics, the flats get given to
    the COLOURIST who can tweak the
    colours and add lighting, texture and
    dramatise the scene
    INK
    INK + FLATS
    COLOURED
    Your turn!

    1. Download this image from itslearning

    2. Open it up in PS (on a desktop computer, Bayleigh…)

    3. Set this layer to multiply

    4. Add a layer below called FLAT 1

    5. Block in flat colours (with the lasso tool & paint


    bucket) for:

    sky / skyline / buildings / spiderman / eyes

    6. Start with the BIG shapes (the whole canvas) then


    decrease in size
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxm7CSuVIMs

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