BONUS CONTENT: Art Process Display Banner, Pt 4 (Sized) & 5 (Flats)
So here we have the display banner digitally tweaked to its full dimensions of 33.5” x 79.” Like I said in the previous post: very long vertical dimension! At the Resize stage, I added the logo and text to make sure there was room for everything before I started on the coloring. The two gray bars are overlay guides I used to mark non-image areas. The top bar was about 1’ in height and marks the area allotted for the logo and text. Obviously, I wanted the RUNNERS logo at the very top so that’s what you’d be able to see from across the room. The bottom bar is about 2’ and marks the area that I figured would be obscured by a table set up in front of it. So I didn’t want any essential art falling below that line, but at the same time, I still wanted there to be some kind of art there. From the thumbnails, I had decided that the best solution would be a nice space scene: nice to look at, but nothing essential.
With the Color Flats stage, I decided to make each horizontal bar a different color for easy selection purposes. I really had no idea what they’d end up being. I thought I might keep them different colors to call out the different bars of characters, or I might do something else with them. In either case, I’d worry about them after everything else…
Next up, color shading…
I hope you haven’t covered this in any of your previous posts, but do you keep notes on which color codes to use for each characters and their costumes?
Crappit, that mosquito color palette makes things trickier… I thought it was more dark grey, medium grey, light grey, silver, and yellow… Now I need to order more blue.
@ Feroz – I actually haven’t done color guides although I’ve been thinking of doing that going forward. Generally I just open up a previous page and grab colors from that. But in the future, I’ll probably draw full turnarounds as guides for the drawing stage and then color them as guides for the coloring stage.
@ Exxos – Yeah, sorry about the Mosquito colors. I know in some older images, I just had the ship in shades of gray, but this time around, I felt it would benefit from a little splash of color. I hope it isn’t too difficult to find those pieces. Speaking of which, I recently found some fan-made building instructions for a LEGO Cube Dude Zuckuss, to go with the bounty hunter set I got. Apparently a lot of the bricks I can get through Pick a Brick, but some of the pieces aren’t available there. Hopefully I can find them elsewhere! If you have any places you like to go, feel free to let me know.
All currently produced bricks are available through Pick a Brick, they just don’t have them all up on the site at one time for some reason, you just need to track down the element ID (or at least the item ID, name, and color ID) and call Lego shop at home on the phone. When I need parts that are out of production or in such volumes that bulk discounts might start to kick in, I go to http://www.bricklink.com and try to find them.
Also, if you order PAB online, they come from Poland in a scary-thin box. If you order PAB on the phone, it comes directly from Denmark in a padded envelope or sturdy little box. So if you live somewhere with a mailman that is not exactly gentle, you might want to consider that.
Oh and as for color names:
This is the official color and ID for the current palette:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4019/4316804801_a125b11bb7_o.jpg
And this chart has all the colors and is good for knowing what the colors are called on bricklink:
http://www.peeron.com/inv/colors