Nigel Kitching, a man who seemingly throws nothing away, just sent me this coloured-up page from Fat City.
After a couple of years playing around with Photoshop, mostly on Sonic the Hedgehog, it was this test piece that convinced me that computer colouring was the way forward.
The files for the Fat City strip, along with several years worth of other stuff, were on Zip discs that I subsequently binned. Must have seemed like a good idea at the time.
27 January 2012 at 08:45
Beautiful work, Mick. I love this style / period of your work. Binned zip drives, eh? You need a Boswell. (Hey, that’s an idea, a self-automating piece of software/hardware that records and stores permanently the output of great artists and writers.It sits in the corner, humming quietly, attached to the writer’s computer/drawing pad and donwloads all the good stuff for posterity.)
27 January 2012 at 12:03
That is one insane and beautiful page of art.
27 January 2012 at 16:21
Well, I don’t throw away any Mick McMahon artwork anyway.
27 January 2012 at 17:54
And many of are grateful for that!!
27 January 2012 at 17:54
I mean to type many of us!!!
It’s cold today.
27 January 2012 at 22:42
I like the subtle tones and muted colours. A couple of vibrant colours in places to act as high-lights might look good too and pull as focus points.
2 February 2012 at 00:57
For computer colouring, it’s remarkably restrained – glad to see you didn’t go overboard with effects and filters (or did that come afterwards?)