Colours by Claire

Comic colourist | 41 | Bristol, UK | Email: [email protected]

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Sonic The Comic: Reillustrated From issue 81 - Running Wild pt. 2

All credits can be found in this thread: https://twitter.com/angelblessart/status/1554538648225325059

Originally posted on Twitter In August, STC: Reillustrated aimed to have one artist redraw each panel of part 2 from the amazing Running Wild storyline in their own style. And we absolutely achieved that and more, we even have a cover and our very own Control Zone!!

Another Reillustrated project is currently in the works, this time for issue 8′s The Origin Of Sonic. More into here: https://twitter.com/angelblessart/status/1575931962946093058 (More panels may be available again soon so keep a look out! 👀)

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My panel for STC Reillustrated, a fan reaction of STC Running Wild part 2.

The whole project is here

Organised by @doodlebless

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My colours for next Sonic the Comic Online's Decap Attack! Beard by Stuart Gipp and line art by @teamsmithy Please go and read it at STC #279, it's very funny!

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CROSSOVER COLLISION!

My colours with help from @alkalineazel for the connecting wallpaper/cover between Archie Sonic Online  and Sonic the Comic Online

Line art by @drawloverlala , @arklande , and Marek Sterling

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My colours for the new issue of @stconline ‘s Decap Attack! PRANK WAR by Stuart Gipp.

Line art by @teamsmithy who is an art machiiiine! I love how he captured the original Decap’s style, and the movie references, so I really enjoyed colouring this.

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My colours for the milestone #275 issue of Sonic the Comic Online! The whole issue was a collaborative effort of the whole STCO team, plus some special guest artists!

Pages 1 and 2b line art were by @arklande and the rest of these pages were by @pandastearoom . Page 1 has a buncha readers’ characters on it, if you wanna tag yourself please feel free! :) The final version of 2b had a large panel up top by @alkalineazel and our dear absent friend, Matt Dittmer. (Miss you, buddy. :() Page 30′s final version also had some veeeeeery pretty extra effects on “Hyper” Sonic by @thekkm . We rule! *high fives all around*

This one was a big‘un for me as well, not just cause it was #275 but also was the first main strip I’ve coloured and that I did em all in under a week(!) I’m not usually that fast, I tend to painstakingly detail stuff and go over everything more than once. Sometimes I delete whole layers and start again haha... but with the STC 25 party, this was a fixed deadline and it needed finishing in time! Phew. Go, me! :D

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The separate character colours for Sonic the Comic Online #273’s cover and wallpaper, by @arklande / @adamisart. I’m not sure if the intention is to set these against the same background separately for postcards and the like. I think on their own they could look rather nifty! 

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Join the resistance! STC #273 launches later tonight, boomers!

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My colours for The Sting in the latest issue of Sonic the Comic - http://www.stconline.co.uk/comics/stc272/# with line art by @adamisart . I really pushed myself with this one, especially the last few pages. Hope it shows. And yes, I followed suit with Adamis’ fellow nerdy references, although the flower salesman’s colours might be me taking a few liberties! :P

Tails and Amy, especially the STC versions, are my fave Sonic characters so this was super fun to do. For the mysterious Don Long Legs - who apparently is a crane fly, not a spider as I’d long suspected - I did a bit of Googling for their colour schemes and coloured him in brown and beige blotches. He seems kinda nice for an organised crime boss! XD This last twist in The Family’s tale reminds me of stories I’d heard about the Yakuza helping people after the huge tsunamis in 2011.

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…and to go with the The Sting strip, I coloured a wallpaper by @pandastearoom. Tails Doll has some buddies!

I managed to colour it all and do all the shading bits with a quick turnaround ready for this Wednesday’s launch, which is quite new for me!

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Watch ‘The Smothering’ now!

The full length SU fan episode is finally here! It’s taken a while and we’re so glad you stuck with us ‘till the end. We really hope you enjoy the episode. 

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So here are my colours for the latest issue Sonic the Comic - Online. I did pages 2-5 of the story Wreckage. Tekno and Shorty reunite, and it’s not exactly under great circumstances!! It took me a while but I tried a few newish things (well, not new by now but at the time they were!) to try and match the style of the first page, which had already been coloured by a different artist. I’m not sure if past page two it still resembles page one, as I was also trying to clearly separate planes and stuff, too. I may have gone OTT on some panels. IIRC page one is still very bright and has sharp contrasts between background and foreground.

However, I’m super pleased with page two, mostly cause it’s by @shira-hedgie and I love her work. This is the second page of her line art I’ve coloured; the other was a test page Shira herself put out for colourists to play with (thank you for that - I was super pleased with how that one turned out too!). And I like how the final page by @ziggyfin turned out cause of the emotional Tekno panel and that badass final panel. I took a few liberties with the colours of the lines (sorry!) and tried to make it look a bit er... zoomy....

Finally, I did try and pop this into CMYK just to see what it looked like (for STCO I normally don’t bother because it’s entirely online) and it turned out a bit... bright for my liking. So for the next one I coloured, I changed how I approached the whole thing. I hope by the time it’s put online, it’ll show...

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Two of my fave things, combined. Also cause Amethyst blatantly nicked a bunch of Sonic’s moves! :P

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Sonic the Comic Online - Amy Rose watercolor wallpaper

  http://www.stconline.co.uk/270/index.html

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I did a digital version of this, thinking the comic staff might like it. I see this as a kinda evening scene, counting the day’s Badnik trophies, taking in and processing the fight’s events…

So yeah, it’s a bit more orange!

Adamis is the watercolours master, though!

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Ok so now @stconline has realised Issue 270, I can post this wallpaper I did aaaaall the way back some time last summer. I haven’t been able to post it yet! :B

This issue has the Miracle Planet appear in two stories; one of which is focussed on Amy’s mission to protect the evacuee children. Since Amy has a history with the planet, and it has the same time-space bending properties as it’s Sonic CD counterpart, I thought I would do a lil drawing of her past and present-day self. (Any excuse to draw Classic STC Amy!) It turned out quite a nice picture so I asked if the guys at STCO wanted a wallpaper! :B

This was done at a time I was practising a lot, so I’m really pleased with how it turned out.

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I can’t believe I didn’t post these colours here! Final Glory, with art by @darknoise-uk for STCO’s issue 267! This strip is actually my favourite I’ve coloured so far; it features both Amy and Tails (complete in Zonerunner garb!) who are my Sonic cast faves in general (I’m old school!), more so in STC/O for the little differences in their personalities, talents and character growth. Darknoise’s lines are extremely strong and clear (I suspect he uses a similar process to the one I do, but is a lot more accomplished at it!) and from a colourist’s point of view are easy to “read”. There is always a good sense of environment and continuity in his work, and he’s great at different perspectives while keeping characters consistently on-model.

Darknoise put some cute little details in the final page such as a photo of Johnny, but my favourite is page 6. I love the long shot across the surroundings of the Stone Tower Zone, it really allowed me to colour a stark difference in settings between the darkness of the room inside and the brighter outside.

I think it’s evident that I still need practice with textures and light direction(!) but overall I’m pretty pleased with how this came out.

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Here we go. My colours for @cgsketchbook‘s War Machine for Sonic the Comic - Online! issue #269.

Line art is by @blueikeproductions.

Initially I struggled a bit since it was a few months ago and I was in a pit of despair about everything, including my colouring! But I’d had some help and advice from the lovely folks who work on STCO. I think the last page is my favourite, where Shorty finally shows his glorious mug. :B