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| Cover B by Christian Ward |
SAVAGE #1: COLORING
While Black & White comics have gained a popular foothold in comics from time to time, readers tend to prefer color. While some pencilers like to do everything, most of the time a publisher will get better results from an artist who spends his/her day exclusively working on coloring.
Here you can see how much work Triona Farrell put into this page. The colors are rich and graduated, and don't seem muddied. There's also lots of shading she does with color that the penciler and/or inker would otherwise have to simulate with straight lines or crosshatching.
Her colors show Kevin's apartment as bright and cheerful. You see either a lighting source on the big screen TV, or light shining in from outside. She's also showing areas in shadow, such as by the bottle and glass.
The way the buildings look outside suggests its either foggy outside, or the sun is shining down but the windows cut the glare. I haven't been in Kevin's apartment, so I'm not sure which it is. But even so, you see that little spot of white near the top of the soda bottle, and the slight coloring of the label caught by the drinking glass. That shows Triona put her time into coloring this scene well.
Here's a London street scene. Triona's colors show how the young girls show off their personalities with color. Similarly, young Kevin is wearing a red shirt. You'll notice as the people in the scene get older, and more established in their roles in society, they dress more demurely.
Well done, Triona!
Dragon Dave
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