Nic Klein shows his process for painting Viking, a new series for Image comics in this interesting little article. He must work really fast to do two of these a month. I really like the mixture of an acrylic monotone base and digital colours.
I wrote about Nic a while ago on this blog.
Pj Lynch is an Irish illustrator who has an interesting Youtube channel. I especially liked watching 'Making fairy tales part 2', in this video he shows us how he paints a very nice fire -breathing dragon, from the sketch to the final watercolor.
Color vision and Art is a site about color theory and the way we see and respond to color. It is fun to read and concise without being simplistic. There are also interactive examples so you can experiment with certain effects for yourself. I wondered who wrote all this and then found a credits page with art historians and neuro biologists. It's well worth a visit.
This site led me to another interesting one called Causes of Color. this goes into detail about why things are a certain color. Some of this involves a lot of physics which gets a bit complicated (well for me, anyway) but it's still fascinating.
Pic2color is a neat little app that lets you create colour palettes from any image on the web or from your own images. You can also apply the colour scheme of one image to another. There is probably a way of doing this in Photoshop, but this is faster. They have a widget version to add to sites and blogs.
James Gurney has a fascinating article about choosing a color schemes on his blog. He uses a color wheel and a mask to select limited color palettes. He then goes on to try out various mask shapes to get different moods. This is a great idea! I don't know if he invented this but I've never come across it before and I can't wait to try this out on my latest batch of work.
You can download a digital color wheel PDF file here from Tobey Sanford's site.
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