My New Digital Process
So yesterday i posted about how I am using a new digital process to draw my comics. I figured I’d share with you that process here.
I start the drawing using Manga Studio EX4. I draw on my Intuos 3 tablet. I REALLY want a Cintiq, but they have been out of stock for months! I hope i can buy one at the Comic Con this weekend. Anyways, i do the whole rough drawing digitally. To demonstrate, recorded 10 minutes of it on ustream.tv. This is the first time i ever did anything like that, so the video is a little akward at times, but bear with me haha.
but when all is said and done i have a rough drawing that looks like this:
Here is the finished rough pencils for this page. It looks pretty good but its not very tight right now...
Next i convert the lines to be blue and i print it out onto my comic book board. The blue lines can easily be removed once i scan it back into photoshop
Penciled tightly (using traditional pencil media, not digital) and scanned back into the computer. Adjustments here and there remove the blue lines, and BAM we got us a good looking page right here.
So thats my new digital process. I’m hoping that once i get a Cintiq my time efficency will increase. But for what i have now, this seems to work pretty well.
So I won’t see you guys for the next few days as i adventure through San Diego. If i get bored i might do a blog post from my hotel room, or my iphone, but don’t count on it, I’ll be having to much fun to care about you guys out in internet-land. (yeah i know that sounds harsh, but would you rather i lie to you?)
But DEFINITELY when i return I’ll do a fantastic post with pictures and shout outs to all the fun people i meet!
But if you’re at Comic con, or just want to see what I’m up to in real time you can follow me on Twitter!
Hope to see you at the con, and if not, i’ll see you when i get back!!
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