civilwarincolor
2nd Lieutenant
- Joined
- Oct 27, 2012
- Location
- California
Centreville, VA, March 1862.
A little background on this image. I first started working on this image five years ago and have returned to it periodically ever since. The big challenge I faced was how to get the branches and leaves to stand out from the rest of the image and how to get the blue sky to look like it was behind the branches, so many little tiny branches it is hard to isolate them.
Every time I opened the file and looked at what I had done I just did not like it. I have spent hours thinking about this image and what to do with it. This week I decided to scrap all of the previous colorization work and start again.
This time I worked on some new techniques to isolate the leaves and branches from the sky and then hand colored the thousands of leaves and branches with a variety of colors to give it a more dynamic look.
Sorry if this is really boring stuff that only another colorization artist could appreciate, but I thought some of you might be interested in what it takes to do one of these images.
Enjoy!
A little background on this image. I first started working on this image five years ago and have returned to it periodically ever since. The big challenge I faced was how to get the branches and leaves to stand out from the rest of the image and how to get the blue sky to look like it was behind the branches, so many little tiny branches it is hard to isolate them.
Every time I opened the file and looked at what I had done I just did not like it. I have spent hours thinking about this image and what to do with it. This week I decided to scrap all of the previous colorization work and start again.
This time I worked on some new techniques to isolate the leaves and branches from the sky and then hand colored the thousands of leaves and branches with a variety of colors to give it a more dynamic look.
Sorry if this is really boring stuff that only another colorization artist could appreciate, but I thought some of you might be interested in what it takes to do one of these images.
Enjoy!