Process: Broken Sky page 3

So here you go. A coloring process video. It’s greatly sped up, and even so it’s over an hour and a half. I can’t imagine anyone watching this for an hour and a half. I was surprisingly nervy making this. I felt like someone was watching over my shoulder recording and it made me even noodlier than usual. Compounding it this was also a pretty time-consuming page; a tough one where I didn’t do myself any favors with very unfinalized pencils, but I chose it for this anyway because it was a good balance of coloring characters and painting background (a lot of background, painted pretty blobbily from scratch, which is I think the thing most of you were wondering about how I go about doing – the answer is “blobbily and indecisively”). It has flatting, shading, painting, dialogue. A million mistakes. It’s a pretty good accounting of how I work, inefficiencies and all. Some things in it: • Indecision • Lack of prep/penciling and more indecision because of it • A few PS crashes; it wasn’t super pleased about the capture software running alongside • Some non-crash PS f-ups that result in the loss of a few minutes’ work • A few skips where I get record and pause mixed up like a doddering old person • A fairly uncurated bunch of music with you’ll probably mute 5 minutes in; if the selection doesn’t drive you away the quality will Things you don’t see: • Voiceover (well I guess you never see that, per se). I’m not ready for that level of intimacy and I don’t know what I’dve said for an hour and a half. • I have a second window open on my second monitor to see the whole thing zoomed out, which guides a lot of decision making that probably looks kind of random without it • I also have a few images I sample colors from open; my colors for John & Eliza (the seamstress), the previous page of the comic, etc.. Since it's non-narrated and so sped up I'm happy to field any questions or clarify anything I do (even the embarrassing things). I'll do another, probably non-video tutorial on concept development (a real one) closer to the end of Book 4. I've also added a new Patreon goal for unlocking monthly videos. This week has been pretty gross (post-op invalid husband, site issues, etc..), but you guys remain the best. Fondest regards,