AMULET II

 

Hello everybody on the internet!  So, almost a year ago I started working under Kazu to help him color his comic book Amulet II: The Stonekeeper's Curse.

 

 

 

 

It's a bombastic kid's-adventure story with things like magic, parkour, sword-fights, giant robots, and evil elves.  What I like about the story is the horrible, nerve-wracking danger the protagonist-kids and their mother are put through.  Kazu's bit of art-direction that dictated the look and feel throughout the book: "I want you to preserve the cartoony-ness of the world, but also make it feel like the apocalypse."

 

I'm pretty sure that baby animal on the above page survives.  Pretty sure.  Here's some stuff I colored, below:

 

I learned a bit about digital-painting over the past year.  The main thing that blew my mind was approaching Photoshop like a gaffer instead of a painter - drawing a scene and "lighting" it with dodge- and shadow-brushes instead of mixing colors by hand.  Here's some commemorative fanart I did:

The talented peeps on the Amulet crew : Amy, Jason, Kean, Stuart, Denver, Ryan Hoffmann, Michael, Tim, Catherine, Alan, Patrick Race, Cayleigh Allen, and Felix Lim.  It was awesome working with you guys!