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Kyderra
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thank you 
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Roadrunner
Joined: Wed Jun 01, 2011 2:21 am Posts: 2 Location: South Korea
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This image has been missed... So I reuploaded it with some small fixing  umm... would it be more fit to blank comic topic? 
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Kyderra
Joined: Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:31 am Posts: 2725 Images: 6 Location: The Netherlands
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oh, thanks! it's fine to post it here, ^_^ updated the opening post with that link. feel free to also post it in the blank comic topic if you want. update o3o 
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GameCobra
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Nice update. I was actually anxious back then to see this just because seeing Maxwell like that seemed unnatural without color XD
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Mon Jun 27, 2011 3:09 pm |
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Kyderra
Joined: Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:31 am Posts: 2725 Images: 6 Location: The Netherlands
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Thanks cobra, It's amazing how much character a color can give to a drawing.
========= Updated OP with parts of the Zoo arc.
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_Stu_
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 The tongue was missing, fixed :3
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Kyderra
Joined: Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:31 am Posts: 2725 Images: 6 Location: The Netherlands
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Updated opening post
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Carty1234
Joined: Mon Jul 25, 2011 12:35 pm Posts: 4 Location: Wolverhampton, England
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Teh Brawler
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It has been done, actually, but doing this stuff for practice is always good. As for your job, you inherently did very well. However, it's easy to tell that you just colored the original image on the same layer. In deeper programs, like photoshop or GIMP (gimp is free), you can make multiple layers, which you can color to make the image cleaner than using the fill bucket on the same layer.
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Kyderra
Joined: Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:31 am Posts: 2725 Images: 6 Location: The Netherlands
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That is very good, It's about the same if not better then what I made when I started with this. As for constructive feedback, You forgotten to color some things, like grapes yellow eyes, and peanuts tongue. I'd also like to say that i'm not very fond of the shading, I'd suggest making it in a very minor light tone, and not bright white. as for the shadow shading, don't drop it in the background like that, it makes it look like cutouts  . don't worry tough, I am guilty of doing these things myself back in the day, practice makes perfect, keep at it! PS.(Check the first posts to see witch one have and have not been made)
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Wed Sep 28, 2011 6:11 am |
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Carty1234
Joined: Mon Jul 25, 2011 12:35 pm Posts: 4 Location: Wolverhampton, England
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Thanks for your replies, I will take it all on board. What software do you use for colouring it in, I use Corel PaintShop Pro X3 is that any good? Also I don't understand how layers work, could you please explain? This might be basic information to you but I am only 15!
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Kyderra
Joined: Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:31 am Posts: 2725 Images: 6 Location: The Netherlands
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Well, I don't know if this information will help but I use Photoshop 7 / CS2 and up as my preference, any software can work just as fine as long as you know how to use it tough.
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first thing you need to find out is how to use layers, once you understand how layers and multiply works, it's pretty easy. here is a tutorial i posted before on how to shade, and it also tells you how to add a color layer. http://necrath.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2h0vvmThe only real diffrence is that you select the correct color, and leave the brush hardness on 100% Also, a nice tip is to hold Alt and click a drawing, will select that color.  If you notice'd, i have two colors for some, the smaller dot means I use that color, and set the layer on overall. I normally do this when the background is NOT white, but a shade of gray. (like Peanuts ear and tail, and grapes overall purple fur) Not sure if you can open this, (I have Cs2), but: download link to one of my Photoshop documents. Perhaps some of you can use it for reference's
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Thu Sep 29, 2011 1:23 am |
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Carty1234
Joined: Mon Jul 25, 2011 12:35 pm Posts: 4 Location: Wolverhampton, England
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Thanks for the help. It has helped me out a lot. I will continue to do this in the future. Thanks. Any ideas on how to make it so that the colours are better and so I don't have to use fill bucket, (see quote above, I made the key part bold)
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Kyderra
Joined: Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:31 am Posts: 2725 Images: 6 Location: The Netherlands
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The shading tutorial I posted is also how I found it best to color it. the only difference is that you stay in the lines and use a color.
As for a "fill bucket" option, when you use that, select the layer with the drawings on it, and take a magic wand to selected the outline. then switch to the layer you are currently using to color, and past it on there.
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Carty1234
Joined: Mon Jul 25, 2011 12:35 pm Posts: 4 Location: Wolverhampton, England
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I never thought about that! Once again thanks for the help.
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Kyderra
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Happy Halloween guys! 
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_Stu_
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Joined: Thu Nov 18, 2010 4:44 am Posts: 1572 Images: 3
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As always, you're like a god of recoloring  good work 
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Sinder
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Peanut is probably not wearing gloves there
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PIERULEZ
Joined: Thu Jun 27, 2013 9:52 am Posts: 43 Images: 1 Location: New York state
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I might be able to increase the quality of the newly colored comics using GIMP!
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valerio
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Joined: Mon May 25, 2009 6:53 am Posts: 19156 Location: Italy
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Hi guys! There are still some B/W strips left from translation thread. Is there anyone who could volunteer to color up those remaining ones?
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Cesco
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Hukley
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Ah, that's great Cesco! Thank you very much! 
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valerio
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GREAT cesco. Not many left now! 
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Vyath
Joined: Mon May 23, 2011 5:46 pm Posts: 144 Location: Tucson, AZ
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Thanks, Cesco! I thought this project had died incomplete  Well done coloring those panels!
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renato
Joined: Tue Jul 01, 2014 9:57 am Posts: 95 Location: Turin, Italy
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Hi there! As maybe you know I'm helping Valerio for the technical problems he has with his translation thred, so I had a chance to test my coloring skills too.  
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renato
Joined: Tue Jul 01, 2014 9:57 am Posts: 95 Location: Turin, Italy
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... and here we go with other three:    yay!
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Cesco
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That's all.  Great work there, Renato.  Here are the next two, plus the last one of the story arc "The Zoo" with Earl's jeans re-colored.    The remaining ones from the arc "The Grove" are coming. 
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renato
Joined: Tue Jul 01, 2014 9:57 am Posts: 95 Location: Turin, Italy
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Back again! Just for you, directly from an unusually rainy Italy, the last two strips from Housepets Christmas' arc:   Coming soon, an evergreen Housepets' Thanksgiving classic, "Delicious, Delicious Food" Stay tuned!
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renato
Joined: Tue Jul 01, 2014 9:57 am Posts: 95 Location: Turin, Italy
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Here we are with "Delicious, Delicious Food". As you know I'm italian, and Thanksgiving dinner is something outside my personal experience, so please let me know if I did something wrong with the palette, 'cause all I know for sure is that there's a turkey on the table...  Cesco, you did an amazing work, I cant wait to see the last strips from the Grove's arc.
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Obbl
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I asked Rick for his best guess at remembering his artistic decisions from 6 years ago, and this was the reply: So on the left is actually a casserole in a bowl rather than a baguette, probably green bean casserole (possibly without the french onions around the edge). The salad looks good to me. The stuffing in the middle is a bread dish like this. The fresh bread looks nice and fresh. Then the turkey I always imagined more bronze, and the stuff coming out is more stuffing (as in the picture). Thanks for all the work you guys put into this, and thank you again Rick for your support 
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renato
Joined: Tue Jul 01, 2014 9:57 am Posts: 95 Location: Turin, Italy
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Thanks Obbl, it's a pleasure to work on these beautiful strips. Let me say, stuffing is a hard stuff, for people with the right stuff (probably not me  ) It's quite difficult to reply a polichrome pattern with a single color. Delicious, Delicious Food - take two  I'm open to suggestions, feel free to submit a better color palette for the food. Thanks for your precious help, Obbl, and thanks a lot to Rick for his wonderful work.
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renato
Joined: Tue Jul 01, 2014 9:57 am Posts: 95 Location: Turin, Italy
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Hi nice people, last time I checked "Italian Translation R2" thread I found only three B&W strips, excluding the first three from 2007 and the strip "2009-04-08-housepets-gets-political.png"(B&W published when Rick was already coloring his strips). So, yeah, there are seven B&W strips, but just three to be colored. And then there were two 
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Cesco
Joined: Sun Sep 01, 2013 4:35 am Posts: 3483 Images: 0 Location: Italy
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Good to have colored the last one of "The Grove" arc story (it wasn't hard). I'm recoloring the other remaining two (which are harder), but I'm not having much time to do that at the moment, so I'm doing it slowly.
The lighted up parts of Grape should have their original color.
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renato
Joined: Tue Jul 01, 2014 9:57 am Posts: 95 Location: Turin, Italy
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Hi Cesco sorry to confute your statement about the colors, but to be in original colors the lighted white parts of Grape's fur had to be pure white in the B&W original, and they were not, they were gray, so I based on this difference the global lighting for panels 2, 3 and 4. Very happy you are working on the last two, can't wait to see them.
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Cesco
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At the end, Renato is doing the last two remaining strips. He's doing a better work and with more time availability, unlike me. Let's wait for his posting of them. 
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Stan Collier
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These look good. Try removing the highlighting. Rick doesn't use that much.
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renato
Joined: Tue Jul 01, 2014 9:57 am Posts: 95 Location: Turin, Italy
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As you say time is the key, and your works are very often better then mine. I hope to post both strips later today. Those last two were a real nightmare... Well, Stan, this is a veeery long running thread, so even if it is in the same page , Carty1234's post was wrote almost 3 years ago  I'm quite sure he refined his style by now 
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renato
Joined: Tue Jul 01, 2014 9:57 am Posts: 95 Location: Turin, Italy
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Hi there, as I said few posts ago the count for uncolored strips in the "Italian Translation R.2" thread told us that there were only two strips still in B&W (excluding four not to be colored for historical reasons) ... and then there were none! - And She Said It Had No Practical Value -  - Most Pertinent Of Questions -  So, dear Kiderra, this would be a perfect moment to update the link's list at the start of this post. For whome is actually interested to find a chronologically ordered choice (Valerio's choice) of the best colored strips I suggest a visit to the Italian Translation R.2 thread.
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Obbl
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Woah, can't believe it's all been recolored Pretty sweet Oh, Renato! Last panel! Peanut's scarf! 
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Douglas Collier
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