I talk a lot about how I'm working on my children's book on this blog so it's only fair I show you all some progress. Here's my process for coloring my kid's book. I work on each page as a spread (2 pages that open together). First step is to scan in my drawing and open it on Photoshop, clean it up.
Step 2: Put the black lines on a separate layer and color in the lines on various different layers.
Step 3: Select the black lines using channel select and color in the lines on separate layers:
Step 4: Over lay watercolor wash textures I've made and scanned in on various layers
Step 5: Shade in the flats on all the various flat layers.
and that's how I color in each of my spreads and why it takes so so long. Each page ends up having somewhere around 30-60 layers. fun fun fun. I'm about half way done on the inner pages and will have to complete the cover and some spot illustrations after. just keep swimming.
Awesome Chris! Thanks for showing the step by steps, I can imagine how much effort you put into it. And I think it's definitely worth all the hard work.
ReplyDeleteLet me know when you publish the book, I'll definitely buy it~~