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Extremely proud of this coloring, and forever wondering why I didn’t do it ages ago!
Tagged: #usagi tsukino #colored manga #reblog
Sailor V by: simplysailormoon
Colored Specifically for Lunacy Magazine #3
Seriously one of my favorite manga colorings ever. I’m going to have to print this out and put it on my cork board.
Sailor Mercury by: simplysailormoon
Colored Specifically for Lunacy Magazine Issue #2
Tip #3 - Cropping, Negative Space, and 2/3rds rule
These are just some general suggestions to make your manga coloring as pleasing to the eye as possible.
Cropping - I suggest you pay attention to what and where you crop. More then likely you are taking a small portion of a whole page when you color. When you do this, try to make sure that no random lines from other panels on the page are in yours. Or more likely than not, your panel may over lap with another. Decide to either include both panels, or if you may need to cut off part of what you are coloring.
Negative Space: ( Definition: Negative space, in art, is the space around and between the subject(s) of an image.) It’s dramatic, draws attention to the parts you really want, and personally I think it looks great when you want a larger canvas. See above for an example of a panel that I made into one with negative space.
2/3rds Rule: This is a little more advanced than cropping and draws upon both the suggestions above to make it work. The 2/3rds rule means that the object in the photo only takes up 2/3s of the frame, and is typically not the center of the image. For an example of what I mean, then click here. So if you crop an image that does not end at the end of the page, aka like her hair in the example link, then add on to the white space to make the frame follow this rule. It’s much more pleasing to the eye, as proven by photographers around the world.
This one is a bit more confusing than others, so if you have questions, please let me know.
For more tips, click here.
Great tip!! I love these. Keep ‘em coming! :)
Serenity’s Guardians - This took all day, but I’m really happy with the result. On a side note Makoto looks like some kind of goddess in this.
If you can’t tell, I’m a big fan of coloring two-page manga scans! The big pages are challenging and a lot of fun to do, even though they take up so much time. Here are all the newer ones I’ve done in a year’s time.There are some I like more than others, but overall I’m pretty happy with them :]
Most scans I used were from Miss Dream. Sources/original posts below—
Wow. These look really amazing. Nice work!
2nd Attempt at coloring. (:
2nd?! Attempt?!?! If I could color this well I would color the whole freaking manga. This looks so great!!
