Killeroo Issue cover - "coulda been"
 

http://sean.sevspace.com/photoshop/k...k2_collage.jpg

Darren (owner of the Killeroo comic) said it was ok for me to post this now.

This a collage of the colour attempts that Darren's had me doing for the next Killeroo issue cover (coming out in May).

But we hit a number of problems. Mainly to do with the background which is a relatively low res. digital photo and the image in front which, when you get down to it, is mostly a sillouetted blob in front of the background. Each works ok on it's own but coloured together and things weren't so hot.... *curses!*

So Jason has gone back to the drawing board, literally! - so to speak and is doing up a new cover image. So this is pretty much 'what might have been' rather than 'what is'

cheers
Sean

I would have approached this by drawing the background (coping the photo) to give it the same style as the foreground character. Even in these four pics you can tell its a superimposed job. I'll speculate that the problem is that the number of colors between back- and foreground aren't the same. Looks like you tried to fix that in the third.