Hello and welcome to what might very well be the final posting on the blog for The Mix, by Ian Goodwillie.
We are very close to finishing The Mix, I am hoping before Valentine’s day it will all be wrapped up. All of the pencils and inks are completed and more than half of the pages are coloured.
Now that the pencils are done, Ian Sokoliwski has been working like mad to put the finishing touches on the artwork for the book. Ian’s task has been to both complete the inks and all of the colouring on the finished pages, so he is responsible for the final look of the comic pages for The Mix.
Ian used a muted, low contrast palette, and he acheives a remarkable range of tones which come off as rich and varied without being too bright. This really enhances the dark mood of the story, and lets the reader know that the action is taking place at dusk, as the colours reflect sunlight filtering through the polluted atmosphere of New Unity.
Both the “inks” and colours are created digitally, though we still speak of the black lines which outline the forms in a comic as “inks”, because many artists still lay the blacks down with india ink and scan the page even if the book is to be coloured digitally. Here’s another great page.
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