My friend Brian and I are working on a new untitled project in our spare time. It's a straight-forward (kind of) adventure strip. We're plotting it together and I'm scripting, then he pencils and inks it and I water color it and we're done. Here are a couple art samples that we did to hone in on the style and look of the series. Should be fun -- and kind of a bonus book that we will eventually finish between our other big projects.
Also, last week I went to the FX show in Florida. It was a blast. The most fun convention I've been to this year and the nicest people running it. It was also very surreal -- our hotel room was right next to Adam West (who ate dinner in the same restaurant as us). We shared the shuttle to the convention with a bunch of different celebrities: a woman from Law & Order who I didn't know, The Soup Nazi, etc. Also met Nathan Fillion who was super-nice and very tall.
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Wow. That whole six degrees of separation thing is stellar, isn't it? You are too cool for me...
What an awesome collaboration! I can't wait to see more of this.
You have no idea how up my alley this is. Can't wait to see more. Love the riding boots, by the way.
Hey this looks great fellas!
It was good hanging in Orlando. Drop me a line sometime.
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-J La
Love the style! Will definitely purchase if it does come out.
It looks like a real rollicking adventure! Can't wait to see more... Matt, the colors are great! How do you keep your pallette consistently within a certain look when doing watercolor?
I often find that when I'm coloring, colors tend to be very basic---red things are red, blue things blue, etc.. It's hard for me to take into account the lighting and the pallette of a certain location. I usually cheat afterwards by applying a photoshop lighting filter, but that really isn't the same. Do you have any general coloring tips or guidelines you can share?
Hmm -- on watercolor that's a tough one. Truthfully, my wife taught me everything I know about watercolors - she's really good. I'm not really great about color and color choices but what I found that works is that I have a basic travel set of cake-style colors that I use -- only 10 colors in it and I stick to those -- that way everything is in the same family of color -- then work in layers -- basic color and then shading colors over the top -- if it's a dark scene, paint it in normal colors and slowly build up the layers of blues, blacks and browns to make it darker. I guess it's just using layers of color. Hope that helps! Thanks!
That gave me some ideas to practice, Matt... thanks!
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