Coloring Between the Lines

After yesterday's rainy morning, I was very happy to see the sun had dried most of the concrete surfaces by the end of my work day. I went for shirtless run at the track, but had to cut it off at 3 miles when the grade school girls showed up. I think it's some afterschool program, they get stickers for doing so many laps. The teachers offered me stickers as I completed my last lap.

So I settled in after a shower and dinner to color more pages. I never liked coloring as a kid. While crayons in coloring books was fun, I often never got an even coloring, often jumped outside the lines, and regretted the choice of colors after the fact. In coloring a page, you only got one shot at it and any screw-up was noticable.

Photoshop and computers changed a lot of that. Now I use the paint bucket tool and drop an even coat in an area and if I don't like it, I simply undo it. For a former Crayola-coloring challenged kid, this is wonderful. Color does make a dramatic difference in the way a cartoon looks. Here's the rough sketch for page one of the upcoming "Grizzly & The Bear Patrol #6," and the color copy (after inking) I finished over the weekend. They are too funny.





Happy Tuesday all...