The Four Color Media Monitor

The Naperville Sun in Chicago has an article about artist Tim Sale that gives a surprising revelation: he's color blind and doesn't actually color his drawings. Rather, he uses:

To simulate something that looks like painting (which he frequently uses for some of his comics work) Sale uses an ink wash technique that produces a largely black-and-white image. He dilutes the ink to produce subtler gray tones.

Then the image is scanned into a computer at a really high resolution and a colorist adds color and textures so it looks like a painting.

"It's not that much different than the way I normally work, except they blow up the images really, really big and print it on canvas," he said of the mural-sized pieces often used on the show.

Well now, that's certainly an interesting explanation about how Mr. Sale does his trade - by the virtue of modern technology!

Labels: good artists, technology