These are the first two panels in the Robot Museum graphic novel, unless I rewrite it at some later point. The first page is all done and I'm well into the second. After I'm done page two I have to get back to the Scholastic story, so there will be a long pause before I post finished pages again. I would like to wait until I have a few pages done and then post them a page at a time, I was thinking of starting a second blog for just the finished pages. When I sat down to do this I realized that I didn't know what I was doing. I had spent so much time working out the story and the drawings that I found I hadn't given the colour scheme sufficient thought. And this is extremely important. I only had a vague idea, I had thought: I'll just colour it how I paint.That didn't work, it ended up looking confusing and lacking in clarity. So I spent time working it out and researching colour scemes in other peples work. The colourists I was really influenced by were Steve Hamaker who was one of the main Colourists on the Bone books, Dave Stewart who does the Hellboy books. I also looked at films that have colouring I really love, The Corpse Bride, The Iron Giant, Pixar Films, Blue Sky Studios films. I realized how important emotional colours are, that colour must serve the drama in comics. The hardest part was stopping myself from painting the foliage green.
These are the first two panels in the Robot Museum graphic novel, unless I rewrite it at some later point. The first page is all done and I'm well into the second. After I'm done page two I have to get back to the Scholastic story, so there will be a long pause before I post finished pages again. I would like to wait until I have a few pages done and then post them a page at a time, I was thinking of starting a second blog for just the finished pages. When I sat down to do this I realized that I didn't know what I was doing. I had spent so much time working out the story and the drawings that I found I hadn't given the colour scheme sufficient thought. And this is extremely important. I only had a vague idea, I had thought: I'll just colour it how I paint.That didn't work, it ended up looking confusing and lacking in clarity. So I spent time working it out and researching colour scemes in other peples work. The colourists I was really influenced by were Steve Hamaker who was one of the main Colourists on the Bone books, Dave Stewart who does the Hellboy books. I also looked at films that have colouring I really love, The Corpse Bride, The Iron Giant, Pixar Films, Blue Sky Studios films. I realized how important emotional colours are, that colour must serve the drama in comics. The hardest part was stopping myself from painting the foliage green.
