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How I make the comics

I've been asked a few times how my comic making process works now that I've switched to penciling digitally, so I'm going to do a write upwards about that. Equally always you can find all my blogging virtually making comics on this handy tumblr mail.

So, previously I fabricated comics completely traditionally. Here'south a write upward of how I used to make comics. All of the pre-cartoon of the comic still applies: I still do my thumbnails by hand, scribbled in a notebook.

Now I draw comics on a Cintiq, in Manga Studio. Here's what my initial desktop looks similar:

That'southward Manga Studio, and my template comic page. It's ten by 14 inches, and the blue lines are my prophylactic, trim and bleed. All important artwork and dialogue/voice communication bubbles should go inside the condom.

I describe with a red pencil (Pencil-Layout Red) from the Frenden Manga Studio brush pack. I can't think which pack I bought, but at that place'due south only 3 on the Frenden site and I'm sure they're all great. Frenden does great brushes. Why red? It's just easier to see than blue. For some reason I take a difficult fourth dimension sketching with a blue pencil on a screen, although I still depict with blue on paper. I don't know why that is.

And here'southward a rough comic page! Ta da! It'south pretty messy. I used a lot of reference to depict Nameless City. This is page 97, so a correct facing page in the published book. Therefor the bleed on the second console is haemorrhage off of the page and non into the spine of the book.

I of the best things about Manga Studio is its perspective tools. I'thou not an expert in using them, then I recommend looking up someone who really knows what they're doing if y'all want to know more. I generally merely use the one and 2 betoken perspective grids to figure out where the flooring is in certain panels, so I can more easily place characters within space. Very basic stuff, but information technology has made my life and then much easier. I would marry Manga Studio'south perspective grids if I could. :D

And so I clean up the page a bit. Somewhen I hope to eliminate this stride, considering it's fourth dimension consuming. All I practice is adjust the colour of the pencils to blueish and trace over the figures I feel need improving with red. I usually only do this with main characters, an attempt at keeping everyone consistently drawn (lol).

This is what it looks like with the rough pencils turned off. I never had to practise this when I drew traditionally, and I think it'due south considering I'm not notwithstanding used to inking over digital pencils. People ask me about inking and how I "find the correct line" to ink, and the reply is I only do. But for some reason I can't with my printed out digital pencils. And then until I become more accustomed to them, I need to do clean up. Information technology sucks! Just an extra step I want to eleminate.

And so I bring the file into Photoshop and prepare information technology for printing. The pencils ever print darker than the await in PS, and so I put downwards a layer of white overtop the pencils and adjust the layer's opacity to 55%.

Hither'southward the newspaper I use for press, same paper as I've always used: Strathmore Bristol, smooth surface. I cut down these 17 10 14 inch sheets to 17 x 12 so they'll fit in my printer.

My lovely printer! I do adore information technology. Information technology's an Epson Artisan 1430, the size of a keyboard and it's been slap-up. I printed out 200+ pages of blueline comic pages on merely 2 cartridges of ink.

It's printing!!!

And done! Now for inking.

Unfortunately I didn't accept a picture of this page when it was one-half-washed, but here's the finished production. I don't ink my borders because I can't describe a straight line, fifty-fifty with a ruler. :D Borders I do in Photoshop.

I utilize a brush for inking. These are the brushes I apply: Raphael Kolinsky watercolour brush, sizes 0, 1 & 2. I employ the one for well-nigh of the page, the 0 for effectively details and the 2 for larger areas. Anything that's a straight line is inked with a pen. I tend to utilise Faber Castel pens, usually a small or extra small-scale.

So that's pretty much it! Subsequently I finish the folio I scan it and prep it for press in Photoshop, which is pretty boring.

The main question I get when I talk well-nigh my process is "Why don't yous ink digitally? Then you won't have to browse." I would very much like to eliminate scanning from my procedure, just at this point, I really love inking traditionally. Information technology's the part of the comic-making process that I enjoy the most, and I besides recall that traditional inks requite my comics their unique await. I'thousand simply not set to take that footstep and ink digitally for my graphic novels, although I take done it for shorter comics. Mayhap someday, but non now. :) For at present, this is how I work.

I promise everyone enjoyed the post, and feel costless to shoot me whatever questions you might have.

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