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Here's a sample page from the second issue of The Uniques, the creator-owned superhero comic written, drawn and colored by me and my wife :iconcomfortlove:

This page is the first meeting between Telepath and Motherboard (who are putting this new super-team together) and Scout (doing his stealthy 'out of the shadows' thing).

Besides sharing pencilling with Comfort, The background colors and textures are my job on this book, and this page was a real workout. The challenge was to set a light-source that could create shadows deep enough that Scout could hide in and dissappear.

Since we don't ink, we don't use absolute blacks. Instead, we use chromatic shadows. We personally like the effect more for our book, but it does make some stuff difficult. If we were doing this the traditional way, it would have just been a black shadow with Scout's white eyes peering out. Instead, I had to find a way to use light and shade in our color to make the same sort of effect. I like it, but I'm biased ;)
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~punbeard81 Jun 27, 2008
The building and overall color choices really look great. Keen beans.
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*AdamWithers Jul 5, 2008  Professional Artist
It took some doing, but I'm really happy with it yeah. Backgrounds can be deceptively tricky.
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~silentsketcher May 1, 2008   Traditional Artist
Nice expression having Motherboard spewing her soda from surprise. :XD: It definitely comes across well.
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*AdamWithers May 10, 2008  Professional Artist
Any excuse for a spit-take. I LOVE me a good spit-take.
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*NGoff Apr 29, 2008  Professional General Artist
The shots have a nice pace of change from panel to panel (angle, figure size). Colors are great and consistant with colors of the time frame. It would have been nice to see the same sky texture in the last panel as the others though.

You have the values...just not the cool texture. This panel depends on the bit of negative space to hold the two head shots together in the same scene/setting. This makes it look flattened after all the great depth shown through the others with BG as well as texure and variation in colors within the other panels. Overall this is a great laid out page from drawing to color! :D
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*AdamWithers May 10, 2008  Professional Artist
It's something that reads better with the dialogue, because with the text there you really don't notice the background in those panels at all. And I was the one who vetoed the sky texture there, because if you look at the way the buildings are laid out, it wouldn't make sense to see sky from that angle-- you'd see the side of another building. But since it wouldn't have been worth detailing another building since it would be covered with talk bubbles, we left the gradiant.
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*NGoff May 10, 2008  Professional General Artist
That makes sense then! :D
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~Sal-shido-kun Apr 26, 2008
You guys are amazing, and quite patient!
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*AdamWithers May 10, 2008  Professional Artist
Sometimes patient, sometimes going crazy. We go back and forth.
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~Sal-shido-kun May 10, 2008
oh well, it pays at the end....I hope.
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