Green Jean?

#1 Prof_Sai

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Posted 20 July 2010 - 01:21 AM

I tried to use the search to see if this was asked before, but I'm not sure if it worked.

Why is Jean sometimes a pale green color? I'd been assuming that it was somehow because she was a genie (Even though they never did that in the TV show.) But in today's comic male Jean is green. She is also grey sometimes.

Green: http://jeaniebottle.com/?p=176
Not Green: http://jeaniebottle.com/?p=12

Is is monitor calibration? Something like that happened to Pete Abrams, which ended up forcing Zoe's father to be a viking.

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Posted 20 July 2010 - 02:11 PM

Prof_Sai, on 20 July 2010 - 03:21 AM, said:

To be honest, I'm not sure why she's turning Green. Envy maybe? For some reason taking colour samples from previous comics has caused her skin tone to start to go greenish.

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Posted 21 July 2010 - 12:32 AM

CD Rudd, on 20 July 2010 - 02:11 PM, said:

To be honest, I'm not sure why she's turning Green. Envy maybe? For some reason taking colour samples from previous comics has caused her skin tone to start to go greenish.

That means that there is mold growing in your art program's color picker. Dip it in a photo of bleach.

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Posted 21 July 2010 - 10:55 PM

CD Rudd, on 20 July 2010 - 03:11 PM, said:

To be honest, I'm not sure why she's turning Green. Envy maybe? For some reason taking colour samples from previous comics has caused her skin tone to start to go greenish.

Erm, at the risk of telling you something you're already painfully well aware of:

I've had this problem too when picking colors from a jpeg image, or an image utilizing shading rather than flat fills, with a too-small sample radius. Click next to a jpeg artifact, say, and blammo! All sorts of weird colors pop up.

Yeah, I pretty much take webcomics way too seriously.

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Posted 22 July 2010 - 07:15 AM

Uh, you shouldn't really pick colours from a jpeg; you should pick colours from the original, non-compressed image (presumably a psd).

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Prof_Sai said:

That means that there is mold growing in your art program's color picker. Dip it in a photo of bleach.

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Post icon Posted 26 July 2010 - 02:13 PM

I keep a character palette, this helps me a lot. When I develop a new character I add their palette of colors (Everything in about the same order so that I don't confuse eyes with hair or shirts or something. For me it works best from top down. Hair, skin, eyes, upper garments, lower garments; but since clothing can change those last two are more flexible) Then, when I'm coloring the image I will have the palette.psd up also & just pick the colors from there.

Since Jeanie is now perceived as having a greenish hue you may wish to keep her that way, but for showing male Jean you may wish to use the colors from your first strip.

Or, once Jeanie has granted Neil that third wish, she might go back to that original skin color. Using the Green skin to indicate a build-up of unused wish magic. (Which strikes me as cute, but a lot of unnecessary work)

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Posted 27 July 2010 - 11:28 AM

Frith Ra, on 26 July 2010 - 02:13 PM, said:

Since Jeanie is now perceived as having a greenish hue you may wish to keep her that way,

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Posted 27 July 2010 - 12:15 PM

About the same time I Dream of Jeanie aired there was another program called Captain Kangaroo. One of the central characters of that children's show was a fellow named Mr. Green Jeans.

Thus, it's only logical that Green-Jean is the result of the archive reels bleeding over into each other after all those years in storage, much like the channels used to bleed into each other. I wouldn't be surprised if Neil got a new roommate who is actually a Martian and starting driving a talking car that is the reincarnation of his mother.

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