Should I color my comic, leave it greyscale, or b&w?

Uncaringmachine · Post by **Uncaringmachine** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 9:46 am

Here's a sample of it, and this is how I'm currently coloring the comic, with a different color behind the entire comic each strip, and now the dude has black and blue hair:

Dutch! · Post by **Dutch!** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 12:07 pm

The bloke's hair might need some colour to balance the girl's. Check your speech bubbles, you split a sentence in the middle in that central panel. Also seems the third panel is too small, there's an excessive amount of green background above it to my eye.

Duralict · Post by **Duralict** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 10:27 am

The colors are too garish, and they're clashing. You should try limiting your color palate a little more and seeing where it gets you - one or two supersaturated highlights will go a long way, and you don't want to overwhelm the eye.

Fabio Ciccone · Post by **Fabio Ciccone** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 3:28 am

I kinda like it, though iot may actually look better with the above changes. Might wanna try high contrast + 1 color (like sin city stuff)

Redtech · Post by **Redtech** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 11:49 am

I'm in agreement that some subtle colours can go a long way. I think a fainter (or less saturated) colour for a backdrop might work a bit better, bright colours get me staring at the borders a bit too much.

Uncaringmachine · Post by **Uncaringmachine** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 1:22 pm

How's this one? Do you think I should just stick with one darker color behind the panels? I'm totally new at the whole color thing. What do you mean by it's too saturated? Too bright?

Duralict · Post by **Duralict** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 9:48 am

Uncaringmachine wrote:How's this one? Do you think I should just stick with one darker color behind the panels? I'm totally new at the whole color thing. What do you mean by it's too saturated? Too bright?

The new background color is a huge improvement - see how the characters pop out more now, instead of being swallowed by the panel borders?

Saturated means the color is very strong. If you're using Photoshop, find the Adjust Hue/Saturation function (it's in one of the menus) and move the slider to experiment. Less saturated colors look more like colored shades of gray, more saturated colors look like highlighter pens. Brightness generally refers to the strength of a color - not exactly how much light the monitor releases to make it, but you can think of it that way. Bright and saturated colors are both best used sparingly.

Dutch! · Post by **Dutch!** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 12:20 pm

This has nothing to do with your colour questions...

But why do webcomics seem to have an urge to have a name for every single strip in an archive? I don't see it as necessary, but I'm happy to hear other sides of the argument.

RobertBlake · Post by **RobertBlake** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 8:42 pm

Dutch! wrote:This has nothing to do with your colour questions...

But why do webcomics seem to have an urge to have a name for every single strip in an archive? I don't see it as necessary, but I'm happy to hear other sides of the argument.

Personally, I do it just because it's fun.

Mysticela · Post by **Mysticela** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 6:22 pm

I prefer the Black and white... I find the color distracting to the artwork

Drugsmugglingcartoonist · Sun Nov 18, 2007 8:03 am

Make the guy's hair blue so you have a balance of complementary colours.