Quest for Color pages 7-12
Hey hey, I'm back with the next installment of Quest for Color. Enjoy!
This is the page that sort of explains how the color was taken from the world. You never see the monster that stole the color except for its hands. But basically what happens is a monster-like thing sneaks in and steals the color crystals from the wizard, then plants them in different locations across the land. The reason the wizard has picked the boy to retrieve the crystals is something that I have not yet addressed but something that's pretty obvious, which is that this boy has blue eyes. He can bring the color back into the world because he has color in him already, but he doesn't even realize it.
This is one of my favorite pages. It is the beginning of the dream sequence in which the boy is flying over landscapes that represent where he would be traveling. This took absolutely forever to color because I wanted it to look like a mixture of realistic and dream-like landscapes. But I really liked the way this turned out. I cropped the image so that the first part of the dreamscape would bleed onto the next page.
Which it does. But this page is even more important because it is the first introduction to the girl in the story, who is really the reason that the boy decides to go on the quest in the end. He doesn't know who she is, though-- he just knows that she's out there somewhere.
So he agrees to go on the journey. This is an interesting page structurally because it does have a border, but the border is broken by the boy and the top of the volcano. The greyscale that I used for the volcano terrain is the warm grey greyscale (warm for fire).
This page is the first evidence of red in the story. The way it goes is, wherever the colored crystal is, the color covers the landscape more and more intensely the closer you get to the crystal. So when he puts his hand on a red rock, he is getting closer to the red crystal... and the pheonix that is guarding it.
And here is the phoenix itself. The captions are the wizard talking to him, telling him how to go on the journey and defeat whatever fantastical creature he's come up against. For this one, he just has to wait for the phoenix to self-destruct so he can take the crystal from among its ashes. In the last panel, there is an egg from which the next phoenix will be born.
Alright, well we're almost halfway through, so stay tuned!
This is the page that sort of explains how the color was taken from the world. You never see the monster that stole the color except for its hands. But basically what happens is a monster-like thing sneaks in and steals the color crystals from the wizard, then plants them in different locations across the land. The reason the wizard has picked the boy to retrieve the crystals is something that I have not yet addressed but something that's pretty obvious, which is that this boy has blue eyes. He can bring the color back into the world because he has color in him already, but he doesn't even realize it.
This is one of my favorite pages. It is the beginning of the dream sequence in which the boy is flying over landscapes that represent where he would be traveling. This took absolutely forever to color because I wanted it to look like a mixture of realistic and dream-like landscapes. But I really liked the way this turned out. I cropped the image so that the first part of the dreamscape would bleed onto the next page.
Which it does. But this page is even more important because it is the first introduction to the girl in the story, who is really the reason that the boy decides to go on the quest in the end. He doesn't know who she is, though-- he just knows that she's out there somewhere.
So he agrees to go on the journey. This is an interesting page structurally because it does have a border, but the border is broken by the boy and the top of the volcano. The greyscale that I used for the volcano terrain is the warm grey greyscale (warm for fire).
This page is the first evidence of red in the story. The way it goes is, wherever the colored crystal is, the color covers the landscape more and more intensely the closer you get to the crystal. So when he puts his hand on a red rock, he is getting closer to the red crystal... and the pheonix that is guarding it.
And here is the phoenix itself. The captions are the wizard talking to him, telling him how to go on the journey and defeat whatever fantastical creature he's come up against. For this one, he just has to wait for the phoenix to self-destruct so he can take the crystal from among its ashes. In the last panel, there is an egg from which the next phoenix will be born.
Alright, well we're almost halfway through, so stay tuned!