Colorized WW2 German MG'er
by John Wills
Title
Colorized WW2 German MG'er
Artist
John Wills
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Artworks
Description
Colorization of a German machine gunner.
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April 29th, 2017
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Comments (8)
Douglas Castleman
I read your reply to Denise...is that all there is to it? LOL. Well, you do a great job.
John Wills replied:
lol.. I was trying to keep the explanation as simple as possible, it's not easy, but it's not rocket science either. It's tedious and you have to be meticulous with the shape creations or it looks sloppy.
John Wills replied:
I completely redraw the parts are particularly bad or need clarification. On this one, I thought he was wearing some kind of rubber neck warmer. I was wrong it was his skin. lol, so he had a black neck in the early stages until I realized the error. ;)
Denise Fulmer
That looks so real it is scary! Your abilities continue to amaze! I like the snow flurries...interesting effect L/t
John Wills replied:
Thank you Denise. You basically redraw shapes based on their color, then assign colors to match the real life version. You have to assign a transparency effect to each shape so you can see the photo underneath. Then you have to adjust the colors once the transparency is applied until it looks correct. The most time is spent picking closely around each shape. There's more to it, but that's 80-90% of how I do it. :)