Dark Spiderman

[SeanE]

http://www.seanellery.com/gallery/albums/userpics/darkspiderman.jpg

pencils = Mike Wieringo, Inks = Sean Parsons

Evil/dark spiderman is *SO* easy to do!!! :P This picture wasn't meant to be coloured this way but I decided to make some small changes (mainly the inked-in windows) to the inks and have some fun with it.

Sean

[nick filardi]

you are using the same orange on spiderman as the windows. That kinda makes the reader think that he is covered in lightbulbs or something. You need to cast the light on the figure not just pull the same color. And if you do pull the same color- you need to up the contrast because that light is shining HARD. This is something that is a consistent problem in your work, but never gets fixed. It is usually only one small aspect, but is glaring in this one.Plus the webbing is blending into the rendering in places, and allowing the black to be in high contrast which doesn't really translate. It makes the whole thing turn out very muddy and flat.

I understand you are going for a dark mood- but the birds are still in a peachy tan color. Thats fine- but it makes the viewer think that they are unaffected by the darkness. You could be drawing the eye up there, thats fine. But the red bricks of the chimney is SUPER affected by the darkness because its colored a grayish tone. I would edge them slightly red just to keep everything affected by the same kinda overall scheme.

[Biofungus]

now, it may be just me, but the glow in the background windows (especially on the left side) I find very distracting. They keep pulling my eye to them from the focus of the picture (spider-man).

[Spacious Interior]

Only on the left to me. But that could be because they are in a diagonal sequence.

[memoman]

Not for a second I thought spiderman was covered "in lightbulbs or something".
Althougth the birds don't look that good so bright and the glow on the left windows is a bit distracting.

I don't know if it is that easy to colour, but it certainly looks great!

[nick filardi]

Not for a second I thought spiderman was covered "in lightbulbs or something".

uhm.. that kinda wasn't the point. I was exaggerating a bit. My point was only that he isn't having the color of the suit interact with the color of the light. He is only dropping the same yellow onto spiderman- which, doesn't work.

I don't think he is covered in light bulbs.

and sean- dude you gotta do some sequentials. I know you are 'only doing this for beer money' or whatever, but man- you have been doing the same kinda thing over and over. Expand a little. Couldn't hurt.

[ena3comics]

like the look, let me ask you, what do you use? photoshop? did you color the inks with marker or is it all computer? let me know! nice work! ena3

[SeanE]

haven't got time to do the stuff I'm doing now to do seqs... and its not all that much beer money so far this year! (lots of offers but nothing that's paid out so far..)

and I use photoshop...

[Osso]

Wow! I loved the highlights!

Nice work!

[James Thorpe]

I reckon the rim lighting could be a bit sharper, and maybe have less of a glow.

Perhaps you could bring out the foreground elements (Spidey, the birds and the foremost building) by putting a very low-opacity white/cloudy layer between them and the background? You'd have to cut away the foreground inks and put them on a seperate layer, but it's worth the effort when it works.