How To Color For Comics
Posted in Cartoon Comics on 03. Jun, 2010
- ISBN13: 9781932453416
- Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
- Notes:
$44.85
Product Description
This is it - the premiere guide to coloring comics by some of the hottest talent in the industry. This guide will take you through all the steps necessary to take your work from line art to full, raging color. You also get step-by step instructions in coloring special effects, creating works in the cel-anime style, digital painting, and many, many other techniques. This guide is invaluable to both novices and professionals alike. Any artist interested in learning to color or improving their coloring skills can benefit from the knowledge of Guru eFX.
How To Color For Comics
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This is not a very good book if you want to learn how to color for comics. The instructions are very vauge, and you’ll actually have to have quite a bit of photoshop skills in order to know what he is talking about. Not to mention that the CD that came with it doesn’t even have anything on it! If you want to learn how to color for comics, I suggest getting somekind of book on photoshop and learning the tools, then simply observing actual comics to see what they do, and also experiment with photoshop because I learned way more from fooling around with the program than reading about it in this book.
Rating: 1 / 5
I got it for my son he’s into drawing & painting. He’s using his computer to digital color. He thanked me for this book. He said there is amazing information in the book. So I recommend it.
Rating: 4 / 5
How to Color for Comics is a great guide for learning, well, how to color for comics in what has been termed the “cut and brush” style (although there are other styles discussed in the book). Many techniques and tutorials are on hand for this book to make it worthwhile; the only problem with it is that it is somewhat outdated and, at times, not “deep” enough in its teachings for the novice. Before going further, please note that you will absolutely need Adobe Photoshop and a WACOM tablet of some kind to get any use out of this book.
The Good: How to Color for Comics was once one of the only (and, thus, the best) guides on computer coloring out there for a number of years. Computer coloring can be a confusing process and the authors do a great job of leading you through the jungle that is digital art. The book begins with the basics of Photoshop CS (then the current version of the program) and the styles of computer coloring, as well as how to digitally set up your files. Then it’s off to the races discussing how to do the actual “flatting” and “rendering” of images in Photoshop. Numerous different kinds of techniques (from traditional comic book style to painting to cel-style animation) are discussed and reviewed. There is a great section on how to render skies and clouds, which I continually use. There is also an accompanying CD-ROM with images you can color along with the book – a fantastic innovation that has been picked up by others.
The Bad: First and foremost, unfortunately, the book is outdated. It is based on Photoshop CS, which is, unfortunately, long out of date – this was written just as Photoshop began using “Layers” and as such a number of the file set-up steps and other elements are overly complicated and may be frustrating for the first-timer. Second, while the tutorials are in-depth, they are not a “cinch” – you will have had to have had some experience at least with your Photoshop program and WACOM tablet before you start; a basic background in art wouldn’t hurt either. This is not an “out-of-the-box” sort of book. The other problem is that the glue in the spine of the book is weak and it may come apart easily for you.
Now, that said, my criticisms shouldn’t scare you away from this book – actually, a number of the techniques and steps available in this book I haven’t found anywhere else, and I’ve found it to be a tremendous supplement to Hi-Fi Color For Comics: Digital Techniques for Professional Results and its sequel Master Digital Color: Styles Tools Techniques which I also highly recommend. Basically, this book is worthwhile and a great resource, especially if you’re troubleshooting a problem you’re having with a step or technique in another book (every digital coloring book does things a little differently, so it’s great to have different perspectives and ways of doing things). If you want additional books on computer coloring, I’d also recommend Digital Manga Workshop: An Artist’s Guide to Creating Manga Illustrations on Your Computer (which, despite its title, is NOT just for manga fans) and Fantasy Workshop: Mastering Digital Painting Techniques. Good Luck!
Rating: 3 / 5
I was excited when I got this book in the mail today. I got to reading it right away. However, I found myself skipping through a lot of stuff I already knew. While this book isn’t for the intermediate artist… I don’t think it’s for beginners either. It leaves out a lot of important stuff.
If you look in the contents, you’ll see that they different “styles” of coloring are listed. Anime style, Soft airbrush style, hard airbrush style (the main comic style nowadays), and digital painting. Well, telling us the different styles is all good, but the book doesn’t really go over all of them step by step. The only two are hard airbrush style using the lasso and the other is hard edge anime style. Even those two walkthroughs are pretty vague.
I thought this was more of a showcase of GURU-eFXs coloring style. It’s OK for reference if you’re good with looking at how a drawing is colored and reproducing that same effect, but for the rest of us who actually need more instruction, it’s not so great. Plus the pages were way to thin and easily tearable.
Rating: 2 / 5
If you don’t have a “full” version of Photoshop you will have to work around some issues. The work contained in here is first-rate and superior to another competing title.
Beautiful results and techniques; obviously very talented and professional and experienced people put this together. I haven’t seen the new version, but the first edition is very well done. Recommended
Rating: 4 / 5