Special Guest Dylan Meconis — How to Color Comics with Physical Media
This week, we welcome the brilliant Dylan Meconis, creator of Queen of the Sea and Bite Me.
Here’s what we cover:
How most colorists actually break in (hint: it’s not by “murdering another colorist in single combat” — though that was discussed)
What “flatting” is — and why it’s often your first step into paid coloring work
Why networking is really just “being friends with cartoonists”
Portfolio strategy: Why saying “I do everything” is less effective than saying “I do this brilliantly”
Analog coloring techniques — watercolor paper, oil-based pencils, and why certain materials go extinct at…
The skinny
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