Quick speed paint I did based off a sketch by Rodolphe Guenoden.  I wasn't going for a polished look at all, just trying to see how fast I could assemble something coherent, without actually incorporating the line art.  Took a little less than an hour and a half from start to finish.

Quick piece, meant to be a warm up, family and holiday prep distractions made this an all day thing though, and I didn't get what I meant to done.  Lines by Rodolphe Guenoden.

 

Made some changes to this one, I think the flashbacks have a bit more focus now, and pop a little more.  Lines by Sara Pichelli.

Sequential/Canary

Just finished up this page tonight.  Pretty quick turn around on this page too (for me), I THINK it only took about 10 hours or so.  Getting faster, but still not quite there yet.  At least i'm managing to stay consistent with my quality now.  Lines by the lovely and talented Sara Pichelli.

Finished up this Black Canary over the weekend.  I inked and colored a blueline print of the original pencils by MC Wyman.  The scan picked up a little more detail than you can actually notice in person, the colors are blended a bit smoother on the actual piece.  I'll be selling the original and my colored version together at some point.

Have A Drink On Me...

Done.  I'm really proud of this one.  Lines by Nick Bradshaw.

I got started late, and forgot Fringe was on tonight XD

COLA?!?!

I get the family friendly angle Nick, but there's shot glasses right there!  I never drink shots with soda.  Mixed drinks come in one glass, and I'll be damned if Bats is drinking a cola instead of a beer after all that crime fighting.  Wonder Woman's obviously drunk, and trying to get straight arrow Supes to join her, lol.  :p

it's the little things......like details.

detailed and tightened up most of what was done already.  I had a work meeting, so I lost about 2 hours that I could have used for this.  :'(

That's a lotta characters...

Started this today around 2-3ish, been working on it most of the day.   I sleep now.  Lines by the incredible Nick Bradshaw.

Pryde of the X-Men

 Lines                                                       No Lines

Quick piece done tonight.  Lines by Jamie Fey.  More sequential work tomorrow!

Sara Claus

Lines                                                No Lines

Lines by Randy Green, colors by me.  This was fun.  I <3 skimpy Mrs. Claus costumes, mucho thanks go out to whoever invented them.

Why Mrs. Claus....you lookin mighty fine....

Time for Christmas!

I CANNOT believe I haven't colored any of Randy Green's stuff yet!  I'm fixing that problem right now.

Page one done.

Took a little longer than I thought, so I didn't get to start on page two tonight.  Unfortunately, now I'm tied up until Saturday, so nothing until then. :(

EDIT:  I didn't like the shadows I put on the face, so I fixed them this morning.  Time to go to work! :'(

DOUBLE EDIT:  The face was still bugging me, and the hair was a little too.  I "fixed" it again.

Little bit more done tonight.  Wound up working late and playing some games with friends to unwind.  Will finish this page up tomorrow and get started on page 2.  Just Alison left to color here.  Everything around her is pretty much done.

Sequential Practice......FINALLY!!!!!!!!!

I've been yacking about doing some of this stuff for a while now, and even spending an enormous amount of time flatting some pages (not this one, or the ones that will immediately follow this though), but I'm finally getting to it!  I just finished up this first panel, and i'm gonna stop and go to sleep so I can wake up for work tomorrow before I get going on the second.  BUT, I finished pretty much this whole panel tonight, which means that my speed has picked up considerably, and I'm noticing much more confidence in my brush strokes (e.g., less brush strokes).  That also means that I'd have finished the whole page and got a bit done on the next if I didn't have to go to work!  I'm coming along, w00tz!  Anyway, this is the beginning of an 8-page story that I'm coloring, and I've got some neato stuff in mind for it, so keep an eye out.  Lines for this were by Sara Pichelli, which is also why I did that Emma pinup yesterday.  I figured it'd be a good warm-up to color her pages.  :D

The bear riding a shark was some random lines I found through a good image search, and colored up so at to make the shirt much more awesomer.

The High-Res by Sara lines were donated to me by a wonderful person who shall remain nameless because I'm just gonna assume they don't want to be outed as a source of awesomeness.  They know who they are though, so thank you, Nameless Person.

Emma Frost.....AGAIN!

It's been a regular White Queen Weekend over here. 2nd Emma piece in 2 days. Started this one early this morning, stopped to go to the movies and do some stuff, and didn't get back to it until late at night. I wanted to try a colored light source this time, hence all the purple going on. I started to adjust the skin and hair to reflect being under the purple light a big more, but really liked how they looked here, so I just left it (mostly) unaffected. I felt it made her pop a little bit more.

Lines by the lovely and talented Sara Pichelli

MOAR FROST 4 JOO

David LaFuente posted this older sketch to his deviantART earlier today, and I forgot that I had wanted to color it until I saw it again. As you no doubt know, I love Emma, and I really dig David's take on her. I threw in the gold trim for just a little extra flair. I liked the way it looked.  Lines and No Lines versions for you to oogle.

Done!

DONE!

This is pretty much done. I might tweak the background slightly before posting to DA, but this is pretty much done.

Almost done.

Just a couple tweaks I'll do tomorrow, and I'll figure out what to do with the background.

BURFDAY PROGRESS

I'm so flat.

I SLEEP NOW.


Bonus points if you can identify that quote.

MAH BURFDAY PREZANT!!!!!!

My awesome friends all chipped in and got me this commission for my birthday this past weekend, and so it got moved right to the top of my priority list to color. I don't think Cyclops is too happy about me stealing his girl, but she doesn't seem to mind :D

Lines by the awesome Matthew Fletcher.

Fin. Lines by Alex Owens.


No lines.

Marvel Divas Pt. 5

Almost done with Carol, a couple more little details, and It'll be done.

Marvel Divas Pt. 4

Spider-Woman. Done. 3 down, one to go, then the BG details. :D

Marvel Divas Pt. 3

Would have been damn near finished tonight, but a work meeting got in the way of that. :( My birthday is this weekend, so I probably won't get back to this until Sunday. I'm not sure about the highlights on Spider-Woman's costume. I might still edit them, or even remove them completely, what do you think?

Marvel Divas Pt. 2

Got to work on Allison a little bit tonight.

Marvel Divas

Alex Owens asked me to clean up the line-art to this piece he did and flat it for him. I decided I wanted to color it too. He's doing his version, but I got inspired by all the pretty ladies. Plus it was a chance to take a break from all the sequential pages I've been flatting for practice pages. Flatting is no fun at all.

Alice on Shrooms...

This was a thank you gift for my friend Lan who helped me in scoring a few awesome pieces of art. He had this drawn by Ted Naifeh and gave me a loose idea on the feeling he wanted. First is the finished piece, then the holds only, then all the lines hidden. I had a lot of fun coloring this piece. Didn't really take that long either, surprisingly.

Damn zombies stole my shoes...

This is a commission I finished up a couple weeks ago, drawn by Marcus To. The lines were pretty open, so I had a lot of room to play. I wanted something very atmospheric and dreary (the dude is surrounded by zombies after all), and I had time to experiment, so I implemented the fog and rain. I like how it came out. The watermark is on the final because it's a commission, and the other version has the line-art hidden, only the holds are showing.

STREET FIGHTER

This is my submission piece for the Alvin Lee Street Fighter Tribute Digital Coloring Contest. I came up with the idea of having the piece on weathered parchment about halfway through coloring this. I really felt like Chun-Li and Ken were the main focal points of this piece, so I wanted them to stand out more. Kind of like they were coming to life off of a dirty old drawing on a scroll. I originally had an actual scroll under it, but ditched that because it looked weird, and just went with a weathered piece of paper. I don't know that I actually achieved the feel of them coming off of the page, but I still think it looks cool. :D

There are only 2 versions here, with and without the lines, because I pretty much did color holds over every single line, except Chun-Li's. So there's not a big difference with just the color holds on vs. all the lines on.

So here's a bunch of stuff I did recently, but with a twist! It's a peek behind all the line art, so you can see what I actually did. All the finished pieces are on my deviantART page, and there are two versions for you to check out here. The first is my colors, with all the lines completely removed. The second is my colors, with the parts of the lines that I colored over to help the flow of the final piece (this process is called color holds). First up is a commission I recently finished for Justin:

No Lines:
Color Holds added:

Next up we have a piece by Al Rio that I colored, first with No Lines:
And now with the Color Holds added:
Next up is the result of a brutal battle between Batgirl and Catwoman, first with No Lines:
and next with the Color Holds added:
And Last we have a quick sketch that I colored as a warm up, of Poison Ivy in her outfit from the new Batman: Arkham Asylum game. There were no color holds on this piece, so here's the version with no lines. You can see how rough it is, especially compared to the others.