I had the chance to talk to the super talented Jenny Frison at last year's NYCC and ever since then I've been waiting for a good opportunity to try out her technique. My recent Batwoman image was a perfect guinea pig for digital/traditional experiments, but I'm just not sure how I feel about the results...
Alice looks good and Batwoman is decent, but I can't get Kate Kane (the center figure) to look right- which is unsurprising, since she's given me trouble since the beginning. It was certainly a lot faster than using wholly traditional methods to color a tonal work, but I still feel like there's something missing. I'm just not sure what it could be.
I suspect that some my discontent is due to the fact that I'd half
expected the finished product to be more... Frison-esque, I suppose.
It really shouldn't come as a surprise to me trying out someone else's technique would still result in an image that was 100% Guzzo. But, whatever. Being able to use different techniques while keeping my own style is a good thing. It's always better for me to be a first-rate version of myself than a second-rate imitation of someone else.