Yeah. Jared Hodges and Lindsey Cibos of Peach Fuzz fame put out a CD on how to CG a few years ago, which was released to nowhere near as much acclaim as they'd hoped, but I got a copy of it and it was pretty good. I havne't seen any How To Tone Digitally CDs and not too many tone collections - most digital tones online are 72ppi and, because of the nature of the Web, up in jpg and gif formats which have to be converted to bitmap before being used for printing.
It'd be kinda neat to have a lineart and several different versions of toning on that same piece from different people, just to give an idea of the possibilities.
My inner scrooge is wincing a bit at the price tag on the books, but I can justify it because if I use the tones over and over and over and over, it'll be well worth it. When I ahd a Tpop editor look at y stuff at a portfolio review, he was interested that I'd used ComicWorks for it. Then he pointed to a sky in one panel and said "That's from ComicWorks, right? I'm going to get really tired of that sky, aren't I?" which made me realize that maaaaaaybe I should collect a bunch of nice original tones.
I'm spotting very familiar tones in the RSOM entries as well as commercial manga. XD
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It'd be kinda neat to have a lineart and several different versions of toning on that same piece from different people, just to give an idea of the possibilities.
My inner scrooge is wincing a bit at the price tag on the books, but I can justify it because if I use the tones over and over and over and over, it'll be well worth it. When I ahd a Tpop editor look at y stuff at a portfolio review, he was interested that I'd used ComicWorks for it. Then he pointed to a sky in one panel and said "That's from ComicWorks, right? I'm going to get really tired of that sky, aren't I?" which made me realize that maaaaaaybe I should collect a bunch of nice original tones.
I'm spotting very familiar tones in the RSOM entries as well as commercial manga. XD