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Color old pictures or all new?
18 years ago
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Someone asked me this at the adult dragon panel. And I'm still trying to figure out what I want to do myself.
Do I go on coloring my existing black and whites? Or do I work on making new pictures from scratch?
The Sprawling picture I did because my fans expressed a lot of interest in having it colored. Are there any others you folks are burning to see colored?
Coloring that particular one did pose some difficulties because it was six years old, and so is not as tight as my more recent works. While it wasn't a bad piece, working with it again did remind me how much I've improved. The piece hides a lot of mistakes or things I struggled with more at the time.
My previous works were never actually meant to be colored. I had no idea at the time I made them that they even could be colored. So they generally do require a little surgery to make them colorable.
I have yet to create a new piece entirely from scratch that was designed to be colored from the start.
I don't know. I might be afraid to try it or something. I'm having fun coloring previous pieces, but it may be a bit of a cop out.
Hmm.. maybe what I need to do is some mixture between brand new pieces and coloring old ones. There's only a few of my black and white pictures left that I would really think of coloring though, mostly my most recent stuff.
What do you folks want to see?
(Note, btw, that my black and white pictures ended up not being posted in chronological order. The newest of that is actually further back in the order on FA)
Do I go on coloring my existing black and whites? Or do I work on making new pictures from scratch?
The Sprawling picture I did because my fans expressed a lot of interest in having it colored. Are there any others you folks are burning to see colored?
Coloring that particular one did pose some difficulties because it was six years old, and so is not as tight as my more recent works. While it wasn't a bad piece, working with it again did remind me how much I've improved. The piece hides a lot of mistakes or things I struggled with more at the time.
My previous works were never actually meant to be colored. I had no idea at the time I made them that they even could be colored. So they generally do require a little surgery to make them colorable.
I have yet to create a new piece entirely from scratch that was designed to be colored from the start.
I don't know. I might be afraid to try it or something. I'm having fun coloring previous pieces, but it may be a bit of a cop out.
Hmm.. maybe what I need to do is some mixture between brand new pieces and coloring old ones. There's only a few of my black and white pictures left that I would really think of coloring though, mostly my most recent stuff.
What do you folks want to see?
(Note, btw, that my black and white pictures ended up not being posted in chronological order. The newest of that is actually further back in the order on FA)
Color old pictures as you see fit.
Draw new ones when inspiration hits, or if you see two characters you want to do something different with, etc.
You said that you only think a few of your pics are worth coloring, so I looked through your gallery and I cannot find a pic that would look bad if you colored it.
I think that any old piece in the gallery that could be colored after the fact would be outweighed by a new piece that you colored as part of the origional creation process. Due to the whole, you know, improving style thing. :)
In the end, if the thought of picking up something and giving it color doesn't make you go "Yeah! This'll be fun!", then don't. Do art that you think is awesome and cool and let the contact artist's high bleed through to the viewers.
IMHO, YMMV, etc. :)