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Here are some concept sketches (found in the “Halo: The Art of building Worlds” book) that I inked in. Meaning I scanned them in form the book, then inked them. (I could only wish I was a concept artist for 343!
Original Concept Seraph Sketch: http://halofanforlife.com/wp-content/uploads/Seraph-Concept-2-600x371.jpg
My inking of the same sketch: http://halofanforlife.com/wp-content/uploads/Seraph-Concept-2-for-article-BG-600x371.jpg
Another Seraph Concept sketch: http://halofanforlife.com/wp-content/uploads/Seraph-Concept-1-600x421.jpg
My inking of that sketch: http://halofanforlife.com/wp-content/uploads/Seraph-Concept-1-for-article-600x421.jpg
Brute Warrior Sketch from the book: http://halofanforlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Brute-Warrior-C-1000x1024.jpg
My inking of it: http://halofanforlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Brute-Warrior-C-for-article-wm-1000x1024.jpg
Here’s how I do it: http://halofanforlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Anatomy-of-a-colorization2-1001x1024.jpg
Starting with the top left going right: Original scanned sketch; Base colors added; the sketch “multiplied” in Photoshop over top of it. While adding color, I actually have the sketch visible and “paint” the colors on a layer below it.
Second row left to right: Shadows; shown with base color; shown with sketch. Again, the sketch is always present so I know where to color in shadows as needed. This just shows you the layer of the shadows more clearly.
Bottom Row left to right: Highlights (they were too light to show by themselves so I showed them on the base colors; with the sketch added; and the FINAL with Base colors, shadows and highlights all together.
The “highlight” layer has the layer effect of “lighten at 25% fill,” while the shadow layer has the layer effect of “multiply at 50% fill.” If I didn’t add those layer effects the shadows would be too dark and the highlights too light. By altering there “fill” transparency, I can effectively show just the amount of shadow and highlight I want without having to change colors. And it also helps to blend the base colors with the shadows and highlights.
As you can see, you can actually be a bit rough in your colorization when using Photoshop. Using layers and layer effects can go a long way with cleaning up the roughness of colorization.
Let me know what you folks think of them. And please, come on over and check out my blog. Every Wednesday I post new sketches for folks to download and color in and send back. I’d love to see what you folks come up with. halofanforlife.com
-Sal