Values & contrast can make or break your colors!
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In the fourth installment of How NOT To Color Comics, I talk about the importance of value and contrast.
Featuring line art by Laszlo Seber, Sean Murphy.
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"you could spill coffee on this and it'll still look good" omg
I love this series, but I respectfully prefer the first batman image over the second; I'm hearing all the points and agree on all of them, but on that specific image, I like the muted version.
I agree, the first Batman looks really gritty and brutal and cool
I think you're right, the first one does look a lot better. The first picture shows an eerily parked batmobile in an empty alley and THEN shows a skulking Batman. The second picture just shows Batman on a roof doing who knows what because he's clearly not skulking because he's too clearly illuminated/highlighted for that, which contradicts his skulking pose. The cape is dark like he's sneaking sure, but his whole body is far to bright. The batmobile then in the second picture becomes arbitrary, so when you see Batman posing dramatically and meaninglessly, you then just see his batmobile sitting there with no context other than assuming that he drove there. But in the first picture the batmobile in the alley sets the scene! The shadows around the batmobile give contrast to the orange around the batmobile, like being illuminated by a single street lamp, which creates a strong mystery as to why it's here in this dark empty alleyway. And then your eye finds Batman skulking away from the brightened batmobile and into the shadows. To do what? We don't know. But the scene tells a story. Batman came to this place in his batmobile but Batman isn't there. We look and then find Batman sneaking off into the shadows to do something. We don't know what that something is, but it's mysterious. It's mysterious because it didn't just give statements like the second picture did. Dramatic looking Batman is here. He came in his batmobile which is here. No. The first picture says: The batmobile is here. But why? And where's Batman? Oh there he is. He's sneaking away into the darkness. Why? What's he doing?
Really enjoying these! If I can add my own noob opinion to the comment section, it seems like the artist over-corrected on the second piece, and didn't just make Batman the 1st focal point, but dulled out 3/4s of the page so he was the only focal point. Now the background looks flat and unreal. The first image made you consider the background and the Batmobile would have worked nicely as a 2nd read. The 2nd one may be technically correct, but at the expense of not being as good.
This is definitely SO useful, I've already recommended these to an aspiring artist in my family. For me personally though, the recoloured Batman is confusing me. You can really see the difference/improvement in the greyscale recoloured Batman, but the yellow tone in the streets is what catches my attention most. I feel like if I squint/step back, the detail in Batman's outfit gets lost and the street/cars/building is what stays sharp and noticeable. Am I looking at it wrong?
I agree, I feel the yellows of the background in the old one are much less distracting, and overall I prefer the darker, more subdued, mysterious mood of the older one. The newer one does draw attention to batman with the lighting on him, but it doesn't seem to match the intended emotion of the piece.
No you're not looking at it wrong and that is precisely the reason why color DOES matter. Everything said about values in this video is right on, BUT the eye is naturally drawn to warmer colors first. They tend to come forward in any image, while colder colors retreat into the background.
Before seeing the recolor of the page I actually thought, the recolor would include some slightly brighter values, and ever so slightly warmer highlights on batman and slightly darker values as well as colder hues in the background.
I was pretty surprised to see the actual new version.
Overall, while batman is much improved on the newer, piece it lost a lot of what made it interesting to look at in the first place imho.
Thanks a lot for your videos.
this is so helpful
love you new series how not to color a comic! Great for a beginner like me working on one day getting my comic out there. Thank you
Love your videos thank you for upload
you are such a great teacher
Great video again dude! I was wondering if you have any tips for recognizing one's own weaknesses? Maybe I'm just dumb, but I often have a hard time realizing I suck at something until I look at something from months ago.
Another great addition to the How NOT to Color series. So fundamental.
Hey K Michael Russell any plans for a video on fan coloring critiques?
very interesting video. But I have some questions off topic.Do you always work in RGB mode?And do you send the pages to the editor in rgb?
are there particular reasons for doing this instead of working directly in CMYK?
Hi, Michael! What adjustment layer for values checking would you recommend - Hue/Saturation or Black And White? I just noticed that Hue/Saturation makes the whole image a little lighter and less contrasty than Black And White, but I haven't dug deep on that. Your thoughts?
Thanks!
Wait why did he say?
That red and green gradient would make a great Daredevil page, though.
What I always need, values and contrast haha... :)
Min 5:50 lol xD
this is like unlocking a third eye for everyone, or giving away red pills like how Oprah would