I ran across this contest today on deviant art. Adam Warren, one of the more popular comic book artists is having a contest to color the cover of one of his books. There are massive prizes. I figured since there is so much talent in that area around here that someone might be interested.
More effort than I'm willing to put in for a prize I know I won't win :P
But shiny nonetheless.
Funny thing, I don't really like the <a href="http://adamwarren.deviantart.com/art/Ne ... ficial'</a> colored version of the picture.
There's just so much going on in there that it's really hard to make anything stand out or get a real focal point, so I figure you kind of have to be really careful with the color choices... The face in the lower right does sort of 'anchor' the pic, but it feels really unbalanced compared to the lower left.
Pimp is intrigued.
I might enter just for the fun of colouring the thing. With all the crazyass people on dA I would never win... but... colouring = fun.
It does look like fun. Too bad I don't like to color. Adam Warren is definitely one of my favorite artists out there. His Dirty Pair books opened my eyes to great black and white work when I was a teenager.
However, a bigger question arises. Do all big-time comic artists have deviantART pages? This is the second one I've seen in two days, and, up until now, I'd never even thought to look for one, and I've been roaming around dA for five and a half years now.
"Just because we're amateurs, doesn't mean our comics have to be amateurish." -McDuffies
bustertheclown wrote:However, a bigger question arises. Do all big-time comic artists have deviantART pages? This is the second one I've seen in two days, and, up until now, I'd never even thought to look for one, and I've been roaming around dA for five and a half years now.
Lots of people in comics have DA pages. I haven't seen any big names there, (I haven't looked.) but I would not be surprised.
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Well, I don't know how big-name we're talking, but Shon Howell, Hector Sevilla (Lullabye), and Stanley Lau (Marvel trading card game and others), are all on my watchlist, and I know there are a number of others.
