Now, there are roughly a billion ways to do any one thing in Photoshop. When it comes to color correction, there may even be two billion. But today I just want to look at one particular method, using the Curves adjustment layer to correct color. A couple of caveats: I haven’t installed CS6 yet, despite […]

Mummy Afire Mixed media, ink and digital;

This is the character Tomas from the film El Orfanato (The Orphanage). It is a digital color version of my original ink, 5″ x 7″ on 140 lb. Cold Press.

The Hard Night, digitally colored version of my ink/ink wash art, 9″ x 12″ on 140 lb. Cold Press.

The Gorgon, digitally colored version of the gorgon/Medusa from Clash of the Titans (1981), original ink 5″ x 7″, 140 Lb. Cold Press.

This is a digital color version of my ink work of the Pale Man creature in the film El Laberinto del Fauno (Pan’s Labyrinth). The ink is 8 1/2″ x 12″, 140 lb. Cold Press, scanned in and colored in Photoshop.

This is the first one of the sketchcards that I've tried to color, and I used a technique I haven't tried before.

My goal is to have a new one each month, and I'm just squeaking this one in under the wire.

I have an odd brain (you don’t say…), and the way it works with art has always been interesting.  One of those oddities is in working with grayscale vs. color. I know plenty of artists who start with a grayscale piece and then go and color everything to make it a full color image.  For […]