Another cover page

I'm still not hip to the blog thing. I know it's something you're supposed to update daily-or at least a couple times a week, but what can I say? Anyways, here's the latest update to the Voyage Moyen webcomic-it's a splash page-a cover page! I like doing splash pages. I am in the midst of recoloring page 13 that I lost when my hardrive crashed, and it's taking me forever because, well, I keep thinking "man, I already did this page! This sucks!". So I keep focusing on other pages, other art pieces, and I just get so bored with that stupid page. I mean-what if there's a huge systemic crash-and all the pages go down? Or what if I want to mirror the comic on another site? (I'm actually working on that one there).

Well-I get a couple questions every so often about how I color. I'm definitely not the most organized or technically proficient color person out there-and in fact-I took on the comic to make myself better at digital coloring. Coloring was actually my least favorite thing to do-and I've actually grown to love it. (Especially since I don't have to bust out paints or markers anymore). As each page goes along, I change processes, I change techniques-the number of layers vary, the effects vary (I'm relying on those far less-you can spot a photoshop effect from a mile away), and the way I work varies. I color as the page feels. For me-Voyage Moyen is supposed to be strange-disjointed, dreamlike. For example- the whole first part was supposed to be at night. But-I didn't want it to be 30 some pages of purple or gray tinged pages. I wanted each page-each panel to feel like a piece. So that's how I color. It isn't scientific, it isn't even "comic book" straight out coloring (like Image or something-where everything glows blue and purple), but screw that. I don't want it to look like everything else out there. I wanted it to look a little different from the norm. Hopefully I've succeeded-and it doesn't throw people off. I think if I do another comic-it might be a little more straight forward-or maybe even in just plain old black and white. I don't know. But, I do VM this way, because VM feels this way.

Wakata? Sweet.