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Apparently I have a thing for the Rocketeer. Note I stole the background from the contest prize for Captain Thorn and the jet pack from Backplane-Standard. Sue me.

I also tried doing more “advanced” coloring right in Flash. The main problem I am running into on that front is getting the line color right, as Flash doesn’t have a nifty “preserve transparency” option like Photoshop does. There’s a way around it with Masking but it’s crude and hard to work with. It’s fun learning, though.

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(ETA: Headline changed, I unwittingly used a derogatory term originally. Oops. I blame Bullwinkle.)

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The old D&D rules about the crazy possible consequences of drinking two active magic potions at once used to fascinate me. I don’t know what is about to happen to this fellow, but it ought to be fun finding out. For us, if not so much for him.

I’m still trying to learn how to do color for comics-style panels using Photoshop. I found a couple of tutorials with good tips, so on this one I was trying to figure out flats (big blocks of single colors that serve as the base) and having line art on a separate layer with no white fill for coloring, and so forth. Some day I’d really like to learn how to do a full-on painterly style of image, without black lineart, but just color serving as the borders of the shapes.

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You KNOW he’s got sandwiches in that utility belt somewhere …

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After the discussion with Imp in the last thread, I wanted to try doing all the coloring in Flash. It can handle gradients, but for nicer shading you really need Photoshop.

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From a reference painting at “A Painter’s Room”. I’ll put the black and white version after the jump.

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Can’t promise these’ll be in color every day, but in response to the comments on the Superwoman redesign, here’s at least one more. I do need to work on my coloring skills in Flash, particularly the need to figure out an easier way to consistently get the line colors right, so it’s probably worth while for me to do at least some sketches that way.

(Captain America is a copyrighted character of Marvel Comics, Inc.)

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I got a little carried away with the Sketch of the Day this time around, as you can see:

Cory Walker has been doing a new Supergirl redesign every Wednesday as part of his “Sketch of the Day” series, which is probably where I got the impetus to do this one. Originally it was supposed to just be a regular quick black and white sketch like the others, but I just couldn’t leave it alone until I finally settled on what you see.

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