Mike Dawson Comics

Street Scene in progress

May 18th, 2011 | Category: comics

Proof I am still drawing some comics from time to time.

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  1. GB Tran May 20th, 2011 1:06 pm

    As someone who struggles with color, I’m very curious about your subtle palette guide peeking from under there. Is that something you create for each story or was it generated elsewhere?

  2. Mike May 20th, 2011 1:09 pm

    Ha! No, I could never do that.

    It’s a palette I got from my day job. I don’t use all the exact colors from it, but I need to have some sort of a starting point with colors. Just picking random ones from Photoshop doesn’t work.

    I’ve also found you can get palettes online. This one’s kind of neat – as you take a picture with colors you like, and it pops out a palette for you based on the image.

    http://www.degraeve.com/color-palette/

  3. GB Tran May 20th, 2011 4:49 pm

    Nice—thanks for sharing the link. I, too, usually start with palettes from my day-job… but “elf shoe green” and “unicorn pink” will only get me so far.

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