Maybe this is a dumb question, but why not make a separate layer underneath the inks, and paint underneath it? Doing it this way you never touch the inks and you can paint the illustration just as quickly. Would love to hear your thoughts on this.
Flatting is deftly the most tedious part of the process, but it can also be therapeutic. The simplicity of it is almost relaxing. I also tend to start to work out my palette choices as I flat. So, although I subcontract my interior pages, I tend to flat about 90% of the covers.
always good to see and hear from the legends, thanks for sharing
Thank you for watching! much more to come.
Thank you so much for the info. My first ever bought comic was Batman: Hush, ‘love the colors and i always come back to it from time to time.
Thanks so much! Hush is still one of my favorites too!
I would love to see an updated Amalgam comics. I remember how cool seeing 2 mashed up hero’s as a kid.
Nah. You would get mixed crappy propaganda characters like khamala khan with th bolivian green lantern
Would be curious what they would do with current characters for sure. It was fun going back and referencing them. Lots of nostalgia.
Maybe this is a dumb question, but why not make a separate layer underneath the inks, and paint underneath it?
Doing it this way you never touch the inks and you can paint the illustration just as quickly. Would love to hear your thoughts on this.
It is exactly what I am doing, but placing the inks on a separate alpha channel. Using alpha channels instead of layers keeps file size down.
@@Sinccolor Ok thanks! It makes sense! I didn't think about the file size.
The more I flat, the more I understand colorists who pay someone else to do it. And my pieces aren't even that complex yet!
Flatting is deftly the most tedious part of the process, but it can also be therapeutic. The simplicity of it is almost relaxing. I also tend to start to work out my palette choices as I flat. So, although I subcontract my interior pages, I tend to flat about 90% of the covers.