Kurt Michael Russell - comic book colorist, digital artist, and art instructor

The Basics: part 1

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Honestly, this is the best place to start for a beginner--the first in a new series.

Tutorial #7: Curse of Bast cover

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Tutorial #6: Ultimate Hero

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Tutorial #5: Colossus

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Tutorial #4: Groot

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I was sick and had too much cough syrup prior to recording this!

Tutorial #3: My "cut and grad" method

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Tutorial #2: Teddy and the Yeti

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Tutorial #1: Avenging Spider-man

K. Michael Russell January 2, 2014

MagicPicker - for much faster color picking. Get an exclusive discount with this link.

I've also started using Procreate on the iPad Pro recently. You can check it out here:

PC Setup

I get questions about my PC hardware often. My setup is completely overkill for coloring, but I do a lot of video editing, so keep that in mind! Here's my current setup:

Tablet

I am currently using a Wacom Intuos Art (Medium) & an iPad Pro 12.9 (2017)

I manage my YouTube channel with Tubebuddy. Great product for bulk copy editing and bulk annotation and card updating.

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