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Monday, May 28, 2007 Antibunny #63 And thus begins the fourth chapter of AntiBunny. While I've had some demands for color I like to retain the avant garde feel of the AntiBunny art. However that doesn't mean that I can't throw in a splash of color here and there for effect. This provides a bit of brain stimulating color that really grabs attention, while at the same time, not sacrificing the black and white feel for the art. Rather than choose between color and gray I'm allowing the two to compliment one another. The color is applied with a simple semi transparent airbrushed layer in paint shop pro. Though in the original art I did attempt to add these accents with a sharpie, I found the airbrush provides a bit of lighting and allows for the faded out look, which meshes with the gray, rather than starkly contrasting against it. While back in the previous chapter, you saw a pure sharpie color version of Penny, that was intended to create sharp contrast, The intention isn't the same here. The extra step, unlike full color doesn't really add that much time to editing a strip. Though don't expect it to be in every strip. Too much use would kill the effect. Rather I intend to use it to create a mood. Pooky's Cigarettes will probably have a red glow around them from here on. Also, you may or may not have seen color in Nailbat already by this point. Remember that while Nailbat is done almost week by week, AntiBunny is done far in advance, so I'm actually typing this in January. What you may not notice as much is that I also changed up the line style, varying the thickness of the outlines. Originally I just used a consistant thick outline all around characters to make them stand out. This works to a degree but I've decided lines should be thicker on the darker side of the character and thinner on the lighter. It seems to give the characters more weight in the final image. Return to ARCHIVE | |||||
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