Hey all! Hope someone can help, I fancy putting my photoshop skills to use as a colourist and submitting some samples to 2000ad. Other than sending off to Rebellion, does anyone know where I could find some pages to colour? On line I mean? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!
pOtential! I meant p-O-tential!! Aarrr, too late was the cry! My feeble mindedness is there for all to see!
Hi Nik.
You'll find plenty of art on this site you could use. Click on the art banner at the top of the page, there's loads there.
hello ,one and all
its taken time (ive been watchin you all now for about two years)tonight ive finally plucked up the courage (actually quite bored)
ive been readin since prog 1 (yes another one),did stop around prog 250 to 330 (grew up)
lookin frward to adding my two pence worth to this site.
all praise the fishy one!
janus
Or you can do what I do, surf the net and swipe what you can.
Or I can post some stuff if you want?
Thanks for the help, I checked out the Art for Sale site thanks Lordship, unfortunately the DPI is too low to be of any use. Still worth a look though, especially enjoyed Brett Ewins sketches for Bad Company.
Yes please Ratty, that would be great if you had something to post! Let me know if you are going to!
Cheers
Nik, some good stuff here:
Link: click!
Also, PJ Holden has a lot of his stuff on his site, and some of it is even good!
Link: PJ's portfolio
The greywashed stuff might be a bit tricky to colour, mind.
Check out the 'convention pieces' thread, or the fan strips on this very site for mono artwork.
Email me if you're looking for some hi-res Dredd stuff (I've all the 'Meet the Flooks' at A3 300dpi.
- pj
I bet they are ENORMOUS files!
Bolt-01
Nope. They're typically about 700Kb (just under 1Mb) -- not really that big when you're using broadband.
:)
- pj
Lineart bitmaps?
Bolt-01
When I scan anything from my sketchbook (A4), they're bloody HUUUUUUUUUGE files. Less than 1mb can't be right. And do you scan them in bit by bit, or do you have an A3 scanner?
Only I went looking about those (sound of me sucking air through my teeth). They ain't cheap.
Professor Bear: What settings are you using for the scanner?
Bolt-01
I'm just using the 'import/wia-epson stylus cx3200' command. Can the settings be set for lower file size? I'm in the dark, to be honest - I'm still feeling my way about with the photoshop, as there wasn't any manual or booklet with it. I got it second-hand for 60 quid from Cash Converters about two days before someone told me how to use bittorrent, and I subsequently saw the frigging thing all over the bt websites like a rash.
And don't get me started on the digital art magazines and their 'handy to use' tutorials. I bought one for its tutorial by Frazier Irving and was completely baffled by it. It's like another language.
artdroids group on yahoo groups is the place to ask all of this, but very quickly:
I scan A3 artwork (using a Mustek A3 USB Scanner - about ?100) using lineart (aka Bitmap) settings. This ensures a pretty small filesize - but it's only useful for pure lineart.
- pj
'k me! 88 quid on Amazon?
That's nothing like the silly prices I was seeing for those things elsewhere!
Cheers for the tip, PJ!
BTW, is that icon your own face? Only you look like (ex)Sepultura/Soulfly frontman Max Cavalera (aka The Tazmanian Devil of Heavy Rock).
That's me doing 'hulk smash' face.
- pj
or rather Artdroid smash face.
'What you want me to redo it? Damn you tharg. PJ smash'