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First-pass color for page 3 of Project Waldo.

All of the pages for Project Waldo are drawn directly in Photoshop CS3 using a Cintiq tablet monitor. For line work I use default brush settings at 100% hardness (4-pixel width for thin lines, 7-pixel width for outlines).

For coloring, I use the popular Multifill and Flatten plugins ([link]) to build selectable areas of color, and then I add new layers of color at different blend modes and opacities (this is a pretty random, haphazard, and slow process).

It usually takes me about a week to get a single page finished. Part of my reason for attempting this project is to learn ways to speed up my workflow.

Project Waldo will be released in 24-page installments beginning in 2010. For more information, and to sign up on a mailing list to be notified when the first issue comes out, visit the Project Waldo development blog: [link].

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Given 2009-09-30

Project Waldo - Page 3 color by ~hughferriss. The suggester says: "Nate is, as he explains on his website, currently learning to draw comics. Well, I guess I should start learning, too, because in the process of learning to draw comics, he is drawing some of the most amazing comic art I have seen in my life. His linework is tender and detailed, like a lover's gaze, and his coloring makes me cry, it is so beautiful. Sure, like everything, art appreciation is a question of taste. But here is a future master who is not seen and needs to be put on the front page." (Suggested by ~manfredkooistra and Featured by ^Cedarseed)

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:iconniezamcomic:
Very imaginative art and creative color. Really like what you are doing and definitely I'm going to buy this book.

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:iconmanfredkooistra:
Wowy! I was a bit afraid of how you's proceed with coloring now that you're getting to other things than forest, but this is almost better than the first pages, and it is certainly in harmony with it. And it is so beautiful!
:iconhughferriss:
Thanks! It's great to have a customer!
:iconhughferriss:
Thanks! This one was brutal. I keep thinking I'm going to stumble and fall off the high-wire, so it's a relief to hear that this page makes the grade.
:iconhughferriss:
I just favorited nine billion of your drawings. I'm totally your art-stalker now. And now I've got the Katamary theme stuck in MY head. Thanks.
:iconjeffsimpsonkh:
haha. we simpsons gotta stick together.
:iconotabio:
Everything in this is amazing, I really love the coloring, lineart, style, I just cant find flaws, it looks awesome, nice job <:
:iconhughferriss:
Wow! Thanks for the encouragement!
:iconnirman:
It's bizzare awesomeness man!

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