Colouring Skill

You know, despite already being an anime/manga fans for years (I started to become a fans around 1990), I’ve never able to draw any characters. Let alone making my own. Ah… isn’t that pathetic?? Then when I become OP fans, that’s around 2005, I tried to do something, to cover my lack of drawing skill. I tried to fan-coloured manga pics. And eversince, I think my skill have improved ^_^. Here’s a few sample:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v678/Tare_chan/Robin-cover-colour.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v678/Tare_chan/avatar2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v678/Tare_chan/avatar.jpg

This is when I first tried to colour manga pic. I took a pic, then opened it in Photoshop, then brush some colour. If I made a mistake, I undo the step. Or used history brush. Very poor skill indeed. -_-

Then after opened a site suggested by somebody, I started to understand that we can actually use layers in Photoshop. And started do more experiments. And these is the result:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v678/Tare_chan/AVZOROcolour.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v678/Tare_chan/AVSANJIcolour.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v678/Tare_chan/AVLUFFYcopy.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v678/Tare_chan/chibirobincopy.jpg

I tried to understand more about colouring the character’s eye. Eyes need special treatment, because it’s the most important part of a characther. It’s soo difficult, that after a few try, I gave up. This is the result of a pathetic will power. -_-

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v678/Tare_chan/Flagalltheway-colour1.jpg

Then, this is my latest coloured manga:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v678/Tare_chan/delfinium-colour1.jpg

I need approximatelly 6 hours to finished this. Actually I’m not quite satisfied with the result. But when I brought it/ showed it to somebody, they said it’s good enough. ^_^ I was soo happy. But it doesn’t mean I shouldn’t improve more. There’s so many colouring style, but I guess, how I coloured the latest work is what I can called as my style.

Actually, I’m in a team doing a comic project in my church right now. It’s about seven sorrows that Holy Mother Mary had, as it’s also what my church’s name is. Each sorrow got 1 page consisted of about 4-6 panels. I was trusted to do the colouring of 4 pages. I have to do my best ^_^ Wish me luck!!