Charleys War In Colour

[FuzzChile99]

First episode ..which  I've coloured in photoshop. I may redo these with bigger scans  size of scans weren't big , i'll post episode 2 in a few weeks scans will be be bigger next time around

[SmallBlueThing]

Excellent work, FuzzChile99- I guess everyone will have different opinions on the colours they'd use if it were them doing it, but that works for me. It doesn't distract from the art and I like the ocassional colouring of the speech balloons and captions. Pages three and four are especially good- and I'd imagine it'd look even better at original size. As long as you use the correct colours for uniforms, etc, I don't think you could be accused of being disrespectful to the strip with all its meticulous research and infamous realism.

The only thing that jumps out at me immediately are the colours used for the trench signs on page four- did British soldiers paint these, or were they just wood? I'd imagine just wood, surely. And the pink curtain in panel four is visually distracting, as well as being- again I'd imagine- historically wrong. But I have no concrete evidence for that. My google search on "pink curtains dirty trenches 1916" just brought up vintage scat porn.

Can't wait to see the next episode- and thanks- for a devoted fan of Charley, like wot I am, this is a real treat.

SBT

[maryanddavid]

I normally dont like this sort of thing, but well done class job. Looking forward to the next installment.

David

[FuzzChile99]

Pink? Red dude .. lighting from the explosion  , colour did exist then .. red as I thought Ol Bill been a kind of regal guy .I don't want this  looking like a war film .. with Speilburg  filters and all , i'm looking at films made about ww1 and i'm also  looking at photos of the time (Albert Kahn and others)and thinking a truthful realistic as we see things now version of colour as opposed to a cinematic version   is closer to the truth ..i wrote  those signposts in colour to show  off that it was a posh trench lol well organised like a hotel or a bedsit .  but of course  gotta do more reseach  though .

[FuzzChile99]

Thank you David , I love this story and it educated me so I hope I will do it justice .

[Daveycandlish]

As David said, I don't normally like recoloured work but this works very well indeed - good stuff!

[Mangamax]

Nope, sorry, not for me

[FuzzChile99]

Glad you like it  Davey .. as for last comment this is only first 4 pages (and usually  I start off trying to find the vibe I need that feels right for the story that usually takes a couple of weeks for me)  I got about 1200 pages to go maybe you'll like one of them when it's all done .

[A.Cow]

Nice effort.  The grey patches on the letters suggest that you've used a colour selection (i.e. of the original greyscale) or magic wand to pick out areas quickly.

Have you considered trying the quick-mask tool?  It lets you select the regions with your preferred tools (like you've been doing) and then flip to quick-mask and add any missing areas with a brush; when you change back the selection now includes the full region.  I can't live without it when I'm selecting stuff.

[FuzzChile99]

Cheers Cow, These were from a rather small scans (that Neil Emery  who ran original CW website  sent me on a disc years ago) so yeah started out as greyscale converted to rgb and worked in layers , the next pages will be better size and cleaner as they're provided by the guy whose rescanning all the pages for the Titan books ..  I  tend to paint page with mouse like a painting I've  never used mask tool before ,I'll give it a try , the nice thing about photoshop is you can work in your own individual way and you learn something new everytime you use it. 

[FuzzChile99]

Episode Two.. much better quality scans this time around , many thanks too Moose Harris who runs the Action, Battle and Johnny Red websites for providing them.