Another art page...

[Defiant1]

I never posted any of the Valiant color art I own, but I found MOTA's Alpha/Omega site and it reminded me that I own the color art for this page...

members.fortunecity.com/ao4/ccenter/page19.html

For the main page to his site, you have to go here:
members.fortunecity.com/xxycor/edge/index.html

Someone had asked where it was a year or two ago and I didn't know the address. I magically found it again today.

Defiant1

[billbob]

Kind of a knucklehead question. When you buy ink art or color art, is it done on the original pencils or perhaps a copy of the pencils? In your case, does it mean someone else owns the penclis and the inks? Separately?

[Defiant1]

billbob said:

Kind of a knucklehead question. When you buy ink art or color art, is it done on the original pencils or perhaps a copy of the pencils? In your case, does it mean someone else owns the penclis and the inks? Separately?

Good question.

Typically if you buy inked art, you are buying the original pencils with ink applied by the inker. You lose the finer details of the pencils, but you get an original piece handled by two creators. The inked art is the more desired collectible.

It's possible to get an inked piece without original pencils. An inker can use a light box or ink a copy which means you are getting mainly the inkers work, not inked pencils.

Colors are a different matter entirely. They vary a little more. If you get a "color guide" like Marvel used, it is normally a few colored markers marking a copy of the art and notes to the printer what colors to assign to the cover. Those are pretty cheap. maybe $10. If a painter paints a work from scratch, you'd be getting a painting which would be very desireable. They are worth whatever an artist's painting is worth. They can be worth thousands. Valiant & Defiant color art is a hybrid. It's more desireable than a color guide, but less desireable than an original painting. Valiant & Defiant color art is basically a watercolor painting over a first generation copy of the original art. Valiant color art is considered less desireable than than an inked piece, but it pretty much is a painting otherwise. Unfortunately they are notorious for fading also. One creator called them "fugitive" meaning that they were stored away from light because the colors will fade. It is not a good idea to frame them and display them. For me the pride is simply in owning them, so it's not a big deal to me that they are stored in a sealed folder.

Defiant1