Is it better to make comics in Black & white or Color? What are the pros and cons? Here's my take on it, I'm interested in hearing yours
Color
>more mood
>More impact
>More sense of time and place
>Easier to draw
>Audiences love it more. (I also love the result more)
>I love the process of coloring, it's like listening to a beautiful song, seeing it come together
>Takes way longer to produce (especially if you get caught up in shading and digital effects)
>Not all panels necessarily need color (its effectiveness only comes out in splash pages and important panels)
Black & White
>Quicker (about twice as fast to finish)
>story / message becomes more important than drawing (audiences won't stop and gaze)
>more mature look (even if its a light-hearted comedy, there's always a series undertone)
>More nuance and detail with hatching (Junji Itou, Araki, Jyoji Morikawa, plenty of other examples)
>Difficult to plan out and compose (color make a mediocre drawing great, but you don't have that with b&w)
>Environments and landscapes will never look as good as in color. Only artists can appreciate b&w inked landscapes
>forced into limited value patterns (you always have black spots, you always have certain tones, with color you can make it as hazy and smokey as you want, but you can't do this in b&w)
Color
>more mood
>More impact
>More sense of time and place
>Easier to draw
>Audiences love it more. (I also love the result more)
>I love the process of coloring, it's like listening to a beautiful song, seeing it come together
>Takes way longer to produce (especially if you get caught up in shading and digital effects)
>Not all panels necessarily need color (its effectiveness only comes out in splash pages and important panels)
Black & White
>Quicker (about twice as fast to finish)
>story / message becomes more important than drawing (audiences won't stop and gaze)
>more mature look (even if its a light-hearted comedy, there's always a series undertone)
>More nuance and detail with hatching (Junji Itou, Araki, Jyoji Morikawa, plenty of other examples)
>Difficult to plan out and compose (color make a mediocre drawing great, but you don't have that with b&w)
>Environments and landscapes will never look as good as in color. Only artists can appreciate b&w inked landscapes
>forced into limited value patterns (you always have black spots, you always have certain tones, with color you can make it as hazy and smokey as you want, but you can't do this in b&w)
