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Fallbell Comic Book Cover

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Uploading another older piece, but not too old. This comic cover was my final project for my Photoshop class I made in 2010.

While I was in college, I decided to make use of some of the characters I made up over the years. Thus why my characters Roy and Ralph were resurrected.

This piece was a doozy. I went out of my way to use as many of the Photoshop trick I learned up to that point, and made up a few as I worked on it. This was the first time I used :iconsqueekaboo:'s shadow trick, [link] .
The hardest part was trying to give the robot a sense of distance since I wanted it to seem massive. I used multiple copies of it's body and Gaussian blur effects to give it the blurry look. I used this motion blur effect on the claw, but I don't think it came out looking as good as I was hoping.

The shadows on the characters were made using a black brush tool, a method I don't plan on continuing at the moment.

All the character's in this piece were sketched traditionally and then scanned and remade in Adobe Illustrator.

The background is the thing I am not pleased about however. I just quickly painted a background and added some cloud effects. Could have done so much more.

The original sketch of the robot is actually in my scrap heap: [link]

Here's a Fallbell strip I made for the Adobe Illustrator class: [link]

I reused some of the tricks I used in this piece in a recent piece: [link]

Tell me what you think

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You should really stay away from the Photoshop effects right now until you get a better understanding of how light/colour/perspective work. Try using harder brushes and doing things in greyscale before you start adding colour so you can see where your light is. You probably had trouble with the robot looking huge in the distance because he is receiving just as much light as his claw in the front, which implies they're approximately at the same distance and therefore the scale is almost equal.

As for the backgrounds, make them part of your piece when you're planning instead of adding them in after everything else is finished. You can make far more effective backgrounds that way because they'll be interacting with the characters in your piece instead of just being, uh, backgrounds.

I touched on this with the harder brushes recommendation, but you're using too many soft effects which is making everything sort of mush together. Use harder outlines will bring more focus into the piece and make things easier to see.

Anyways, hope that helps. This looks like it has the potential to be a really interesting story. Good luck!