Coloring Book Page – Jen Stark 3

 Another Jen Stark design. This time I stuck with a single hue, decreasing brightness within the shapes and saturation from top to bottom. The result creates an interesting illusion of depth.

Coloring Book Page – Jen Stark 2

 

This is my first use of Fresco’s new reference layer feature. It sets up the line art as a reference for the fill tool. Unlike using the “multiply” option, this works directly with fills, eliminating the annoying little blank spots at the edges of lines.

This color scheme worked with the same hues as the previous Jen Stark, only this time it decreased saturation rather than brightness. And by using the fill tool rather than the pen tool, I finished it in minutes rather than days.

Coloring Book Page – Werewolves

 

Though I’ve been having great fun with the Berni Wrightson coloring book, the zombie and the mummy seemed somewhat unseasonal. These snowy lycanthropes are more in keeping with the holiday spirit.

Coloring Book Page – Mummy

Back to the Berni Wrightson coloring book. It was something of a relief to work with a limited color palette after the complicated color study. I finished this one in comparatively short order.

Coloring Book Page – Jen Stark 1

 

This one took awhile. It started as a page from the Jen Stark coloring book and kinda took on a life of its own.

The main idea here was to produce a color study that blends adjacent hues on the color wheel, decreasing in brightness from 100% in the middle to 45% on the edges. Though the result is more math than freestyle art, I liked how it turned out.

The reason it took awhile was that I opted to color it using a blake pen tool in Fresco. The coverage is uneven, which gives it a hand drawn appearance up close.