Here’s another version of the kids encountering the slowpoke elephants crossing the rope bridge and in the process destroying it. The square outline shows the “safe” portion of the square 8x8-inch page. I will have to resize the image for the print version if I want to include the entire rope bridge.. The ePub version will use the full-width picture.
Last week’s Al Fresco Art Club challenge was to color a comic cell using gradient maps in combination with a gray scale painting. I used Procreate’s built-in gradient maps for the first time and came up with this very digital look, which I definitely would never use for anything. Procreate’s gradient maps are easy enough to use, and it’s easy to create custom gradients. I do understand the value of using gradient maps for rapid production and for easily adjusting colors.
It was a fun challenge, but I don’t have a use for gradient maps in my books. Maybe someday I’ll see the light.
I have several more days work to do here and I’m running out of titles for this picture. “Still Working” is starting to lose it’s charm. I remind myself that it’s an inch a day, every day, and eventually this will be completed.
When I step away from the screen, I can see that the colors are overly saturated. I’ll fix that…eventually. And I can see that the owner of the cafe, Senor Jaguar, is looking really mean and scary in his t-shirt. And that glare he’s giving the kids makes me wonder what’s going on in his mind?
