I've seen some of your pages recently (well April of this year anyway) and noticed your blueline thumbnail was about the only thing reproduced larger. Do you just go to inks or do you pencil tighter. I didn't see any pencil marks what-so-ever...but still I had to ask!
I'm a bit unaware of the process, so let me guess what is it that you're doing. I suppose you first make a sketch in blue pencil, then you put the ink (on the same paper, right?). After that, you get rid of the blue lines in photoshop? Is that correct or am I getting the whole thing wrong????
Thanks for the prompt reply. The process seems very fast. What would be the average time you need for completing one page in that way? I mean when you add together the times needed for both the blue-marker sketching and the inking bit. How many pages can you complete in one day?
These pages for Seven Psychos take about a day each because they're quite big and have a lot of panels. For an American size comic I can usually manage 2 pages a day.
These are the selected pencil pages I did. My skills are far inferior to yours, but I work hard to improve. I intend to ink them with a ligthbox method, and then apply acrylic paint (you know like Juan Gimenez and Hermann Huppen for example). I kind of prefer European (or Franco-Belgian) style of comics (avoiding excessive use of splash pages and more economical organisation of panels.
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ReplyDeleteI've seen some of your pages recently (well April of this year anyway) and noticed your blueline thumbnail was about the only thing reproduced larger. Do you just go to inks or do you pencil tighter. I didn't see any pencil marks what-so-ever...but still I had to ask!
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I just go straight to inks, no pencils. It's easy!
ReplyDeleteI'm a bit unaware of the process, so let me guess what is it that you're doing. I suppose you first make a sketch in blue pencil, then you put the ink (on the same paper, right?). After that, you get rid of the blue lines in photoshop? Is that correct or am I getting the whole thing wrong????
ReplyDeleteYou're right, that's excactly what I do, although I use a blue marker rather than a pencil
ReplyDeleteThanks for the prompt reply. The process seems very fast. What would be the average time you need for completing one page in that way? I mean when you add together the times needed for both the blue-marker sketching and the inking bit. How many pages can you complete in one day?
ReplyDeleteThese pages for Seven Psychos take about a day each because they're quite big and have a lot of panels. For an American size comic I can usually manage 2 pages a day.
ReplyDeletewell I guess thats super fast, I mean the whole page (even two) done in a day, phew!
ReplyDeleteThese are the selected pencil pages I did. My skills are far inferior to yours, but I work hard to improve. I intend to ink them with a ligthbox method, and then apply acrylic paint (you know like Juan Gimenez and Hermann Huppen for example). I kind of prefer European (or Franco-Belgian) style of comics (avoiding excessive use of splash pages and more economical organisation of panels.
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