For whatever reason, I thought it would be a good drawing exercise to start taking some comic pages I really dig and try my best to recreate them. Thus, I bring you the first in the JLR’s With Apologies series, in which I do just that.
First up: page 76 of Vertical‘s release of Black Jack vol. 9 (which is great, you should pick it up). Remember, it reads right to left.
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As you can maybe see here, Black Jack is adrift, and is fending off sharks with scalpels. I don’t have the original to show you, but I assure you it looks much better than this. One thing that’s off by a decent margin is the framing; I couldn’t quite line everything up right on my 5.5″ x 8.5″ sketchpad with my Pilot Precise V5 (I love those but they’re kinda thick for this).
Also, I learned it is really hard to draw as perfectly as Tezuka and I think I appreciate his art even more now, if that’s possible.
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Great exercise 🙂 I like the idea of getting in touch with the craft. The two things to keep in mind are: 1) Tezuka did tons of tweaks and fix-ups of his art after it was done2) but he also whipped out these pages hella fast. Definitely under an hour from pencils to inked. INSANE
That blows my mind. This took me an entire T-Square album or so to do, but I just did it straight to ink (because I'm a step-skippa).
Yeah, dude. Keep it up! BLACK JACK is the best!