I recently posted these on my twitter, but figured that it would be a good idea to repost them here.
For the unaware, my computer recently suffered a massive meltdown which forced me to ink and color the comic by hand for a couple weeks. My annoyance over the whole ordeal was quickly quieted by how much I actually enjoyed the new process.
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I start out (like normal) by doing a quick pencil sketch on scrap paper. These are usually done very quickly, with virtually no erasing. At this point I’m just working out the positioning and layout, and stopping to erase actually breaks my flow. It doesn’t need to be perfect at this stage because I’m just figuring out how things will look.
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The next step is to lightbox the drawings onto a heavier paper stock to ink and color. This is the point where I decide which lines I want to keep.
All my old Rapidographs had dried out, so I inked this with Microns
, and realized how much I loved those little pens. Most of the background detail was done in this step. This is not something that I would normally recommend, but after a while you get comfortably with inks and you know how much you can do in the actually inking stage. I wouldn’t do this with the foreground characters (usually), but I knew that I wanted a “loose” look for the background that I didn’t want to over think.
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Finally I color with basic Windsor Newton watercolors, and some acrylics here and there. I made the mistake of not using watercolor paper with this (I simply wasn’t paying attention), and paid the price for it with some pretty bad warping. I hadn’t picked up an actual brush in years, and it was very refreshing to get back into it.
The whole process is actually pretty simple. Hopefully, I’ll do one of these for how I work in Photoshop.
josh