ulamosart

It's been my dream to merge my digital illustrations hobby with cover coloring job and this month, much sooner than I ever expected, it came true!
I painted my first 2 comic covers ever, one for Zenescope Entertainment, one for Big Dog Ink, both being friendly publishers I've worked with for a long time. I couldn't imagine a better start of 2018!

Zenescope cover is going to be revealed in February, but Big Dog Ink's one is being published today! It will be a part of their Kickstarter campaign that's starting today at 10 a.m. West Coast Time. I'll post a full version then.

If you truly love what you do, work hard and never give up, it will pay off

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone! I hope you're having a wonderful time

Cool artworks and artists that don't get enough recognition. Let's spread some love for art this Christmas shall we?

 

Hey guys, I just changed my username to ulamosart to keep all my social media pages consistent.

You can now follow me on:
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facebook.com/ulamosart
www.instagram.com/ulamosart
twitter.com/ulamosart
ulamosart.tumblr.com

Cheers!

One thing I wish I could adapt from traditional media is the control of the color. Yes, you don't have all these fancy hue/saturation/contrast sliders, but once you put the color on it, you know how it looks like. In digital not necessarily.
I'm bringing my deviantArt profile back from the dead and while browsing some older works to upload I'm constantly like "whaaa? This is not final right? Must be w.i.p? Someone tell me it's not final art I actually sent to publisher?"
So this is what happened, obviously I knew colors would be important in my job so I invested in quite a good monitor, but when it came to callibration I thought meh, how off can it be? I prolly won't even notice. I'll just load pre-configured icc profile and use system callibration. And you know what? Now when I actually used callibrator, the difference is HUGE. Like, not only from a colorist's standpoint, literally everyone would notice a big change in display. Earlier everything was on warmer, yellowish and more saturated side and the monitor was pretty bright. Which seemed totally fine and natural to me. Now it's darker and cooler in tones and it's actually much easier to work on. I didn't realize how the previous settings made me skip so many details and tones. And while some old works don't look much different now, the others make me wanna cry. All depending on what color scheme I used.
I'm writing this long post simply as a piece of advice for new digital artists working with color. You may be lucky and your monitor may display correct colors straight out of the box, but that rarely happens and do you really wanna risk it? Yes, majority of people who watch your work won't have their displays callibrated either, but from my experience, when source file is well done, it looks different but still good on every display. And when it's messed up, it's a lottery and there will most likely something be always slightly wrong with it. And if you're going to print your work, it's even more important. Callibrator is as important as good monitor.
That being said, I'm going back to crying over my destroyed covers now