Which version do you like better?

I'd been talking to someone about my art lately, and well, it made me think. So, I'm curious what you think. Just artwise, which version do YOU like better? Can you tell me why do you like it better?

Erh, this is not a question if ToC'll be B&W or in Colour; but it's about in which direction I want to develope my artstyle.





Please, kick other people to check this topic. It's kinda important for me.

I personally like the colored one the best. There's nothing wrong with the black and white version of course, but I find that for me color makes things a whole lot more interesting. It lets you know exactly what people and places look like. It helps give them personality to me, if that makes sense. It helps give atmosphere and mood that would otherwise be missing in just black and white. My opinion of course.

I have to say it's going to be the colour.

The colour happens to have a lot more detail that just wouldn't really fit in the black and white, I think. Things like the darker section on Rill's head, the fact her eyes are yellow (and the shine and highlight across them), the detail in the fur, the depth in the face...

It has so much more in it, I have to pick the colour. The black and white is very clean, but it's almost too sterile... it's pure black and white, with no shading or tones. It seems almost like it would be a fair comparison if you did flat unshaded colours versus that. The detail on that is very pure, but it's not really as appealing as the colour.

I'm going to regret this opinion when anything mechanical shows up, however, and I reserve the right to beg and plead until I'm blue in the face for black and white versions of those with all the fiddly little lines and details intact, please. I loves me my mechanical bits.

Anyway, that's my £0.02 - take them as you will. (None of those bloody US cents or eurocents for me! )

Also, this is a day I'm agreeing with Kao. Mark it down, lads 'n lasses, it's The Beginning Of The End.

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I personally like color more too for basically the same reason puppy and Kao say.

Hiya.

Gota say I like the colored one better as well. It's easier for me to see what's going on in the comic that way. I have a hard time with line drawings.

Your answers are helping me ALOT. Some are not surprising - the preference for the coloured page for example - but some are. You guys are helping me ALOT, thank you.

For example, I kinda expected Mike to see the lineart better, because the contrast is higher, so I think.

Why, color, of course. That's quite a silly question. /:3

I prefer black and white line art over colour any day, I think there's a different mood that can be captured through it that colour can't even come close to copying.  And too often than not, colour is used as a crutch to tell the difference between characters, settings, locations etc where as one should be able to do that in B&W first.

However, as Puppy mentioned, the comparesment above is not a fair one as the B&W line art has been drawn with colouring in-mind, and there for it's all rather flat with no tones or shading compared to the depth of the coloured page.

I love good B&W art, but that's a matter of taste - here it's obvious that the coloured page wins.  And that's as close to an answer as you're bloody gonna get from me.

I voted for colour, because the lineart is drawn with colouring in mind. However, I am pretty sure that if you made the linework with the intent of it being lineart in comic book illustration style or something simillarly fancy, I would vote otherwise.

The colored one.  You did an excellent job of coloring.  Sorry I don't post as often as I used to.