Sijun Forums :: View topic - Color Making with Photoshop (critics are welcome)

Fabrys · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2002 1:42 am

One of my first :

The one for my Happy New Year 2002 Card to friends (inspired by BattleChasers):

The way I work (all the following pictures are Copyright � 2002 Delcourt Productions, cartoonist : Laurent Cagniat):

At last, a cover :

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Andromeda · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2002 2:06 am

those are most excellent ! ...
but i really would like to see your 'tutorial' in english =] ...

i dont understand frecnh.

Fabrys · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2002 2:21 am

quote:
Originally posted by Andromeda
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those are most excellent ! ...
but i really would like to see your 'tutorial' in english =] ...

i dont understand frecnh.

Woops ! Sorry...

Thanks for your compliments
At first, I select the inking which is defined as an alpha layer.
Then, I create selections (steps 2 and 3). The biggest one (purple) is the sky. The forest on the background, the grass, the characters on the background, the plants on the foreground and a selection for each one of the three first characters.
Step 4 : I decide to place the light source (upper right corner) and I begin to colorize the forest (airbrush in fading or melted mode -I don't know the right term in english), the grass (color > pointillism and directionnal blur) and the big group of characters.
Step 5 to 7 : I define the lights and shadows on objects (imagine a flash of lightning).
Step 8 to the end : I work on the three most important characters and add white lines to reinforce the rain.

Randis Albion · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2002 3:34 am

The linework is realy good!
I like it, nice dynamic.
But for such coloring you don't need Photoshop.

Cheers
Randis ::

Fabrys · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2002 3:43 am

I know but I really have a trouble with Painter's interface (if you're thinking about this soft).
I'd like to work with more materials (as inks, watercoulours, etc.) but what I tried with Photoshop is not what I'm looking for (I don't like to work with plugins).
I checked your site. your stuff is really good !

egerie · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2002 10:26 am

VAURIENS !!!!

C'est g�ant ce que tu fais Fabrys. J'ai beaucoup appreci� un tutorial comme le tiens.

Cheers !

Fabrys · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2002 11:16 am

Wow ! Impressionnant !
Je suis sur le derri�re de voir quelqu'un qui conna�t Vauriens, ici !
Les dessins sont toujours de Laurent Cagniat (il s'est am�lior� depuis le tome 2, sortie fran�aise pr�vue au mois de mai, avec un joli coffret)

jome · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2002 11:25 am

Nice! You work for �ditions Delcourt? I looked down the list of auteurs over at their site, to find the Fabrices among them that had a similar style like the one you're displaying, but I didn't immediately find one. That is, if you're Fabrice...
What series are you working on? Is it possible I've already came across an album here in Flanders, Belgium?
Ah, Vauriens, I read now. Haven't seen the series yet, but I'll make sure to pick up a tome.
Stick around on Sijun!

SoMK · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2002 11:26 am

Excellent ! Vraiment bien le tutorial, tu as un trait vraiment net et precis, j'admire les encrages aussi clean ! et vive photoshop :)
*encore encore :)*

====== babelfish says : (well, not really but anyway...)
Excellent ! Way cool tutorial, your line is crisp and clean, this is something I really admire with inkings ( I SO suck at inking :D).. All hail mighty Photoshop !

Fabrys · Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2002 11:44 pm

quote:
Originally posted by jome:
Nice! You work for �ditions Delcourt? I looked down the list of auteurs over at their site, to find the Fabrices among them that had a similar style like the one you're displaying, but I didn't immediately find one. That is, if you're Fabrice...
What series are you working on? Is it possible I've already came across an album here in Flanders, Belgium?
Ah, Vauriens, I read now. Haven't seen the series yet, but I'll make sure to pick up a tome.
Stick around on Sijun!

I work both for Editions Delcourt and Associated Humanoids, as a color maker.
By the cheers and compliments that I receieved, I think that there's a misunderstanding : I'm not the cartoonist neither of the page with the kids jumping out from the forest nor the one with the two statues. Just of the two first pictures (I edit my fisrt post to be clear).
The cartonnist is a friend of mine who is also working with Regis Loisel.
If you go to http://www.editions-delcourt.fr, menu "a paraitre" (that means to come out), you'll see on april's forecast "Vauriens". You can click on the very nice cover colored by another one of my friends and, also, such as my mentor

Claude Guth (a famous color maker of Lanfeust of Troy and, since 4 months, the second author of Pitchi Po�, not translated yet).
Where do you live in Flanders ? Today we go for a trip of 5 days : Brugge, Brussel and Antwerpen. Maybe, we'll go upper in the north...

Edit : perhaps, begin of next year, you'll find a book, drawed by myself. I'm preparing my stuff to show the publishers that I'm also a cartoonist

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Fabrys · Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2002 12:13 am

Those are mines :

Some sketches :

Fabrys · Posted: Wed Mar 06, 2002 12:06 am

A little *Up* to get more crits

Thx

Tron · member Member # Joined: 15 Dec 2000 Posts: 118

i like the first one of our updates,
very expressive! the line is and the colors have a special style. Good!