December Sun – A Web Comic

Here’s a dragon image that I drew, inked and colored for a “Dragonboat” contest at my employer.  I didn’t win, but I had fun doing the drawing.  Sable brushes, scanned, then colored with Photoshop.

Whenever I color with Photoshop it makes me want to branch into doing December Sun in color, but problems are:

1. I enjoy black and white
2. I don’t often delineate my figures clearly: either my lines are broken, or they are “brushy” or cross-hatched and don’t lend themselves to easy coloring.
3. I can never get flesh tones right.
4. My goofy Gem monitor has issues and occasionally goes pinkish in coloration, so I’m never sure if my colors are completely accurate (not really an issue when working strictly in black and white.)  I’m long overdue for a new monitor.
5. If I go to color, it would be a downer to “downgrade” into black and white again.  I’m speaking from my own experience: if I was reading a title that started in black and white, then went to color, I’d probably not be likely to want it to go back to black and white and gray-scale.  So if I try color and get burned out, I’m sort of obligated to stick with it, right?
6. Color just take a lot of time.

I’ve had a number of ideas for a December Sun Holiday issue that would be in color, but then I’m so used to doing the title in black and white, I’m just not sure if that would work.  I’m also thinking of revisiting the “Manga Sun” idea, but that’s a whole new can of worms.