I know I said I was going to practice all-digital more, but doing the Castlevania comic had me hankering to draw on paper. I ended up doing all of this one straight to ink with a brush pen on Tuesday night, then I added text with a pen the next day, scanned it in, and did the toning in Manga Studio.
Hey, a new comic! This one is another collaboration that had Wes Black (Two of a Vine) writing and me drawing. It was also my first real crack at doing everything digitally. I experimented with Manga Studio a couple other times in stuff like Film Punks, but now I’m really trying to get the hang of it and learn how to make it a faster and more satisfying process.
Here’s a quick self-indulgent post, which pretty much describes every post on a personal blog, I guess. Some of you may recall the Bloodborne comic I posted back in April. Well, I was just flipping through a sketchbook to get to a clean piece and I came across the original thumbnail for the first page of that one, so I thought I’d share it.
I don’t know if this is a good or bad thing, but this definitely shows how slavish I can be to a thumbnail once I’ve decided what layout to go with. I did the comic itself in ink (Micron pen, probably) on regular printer paper before scanning it and coloring it in Photoshop. Here’s a little before and after thumb vs. final for those interested.
I have no idea what I did with the second page thumb, or if I even made one!
Heyyyy… I’ve been busy! Sadly, most of what I’ve been busy with is stuff I can’t post on the blog, hence the lack of updates. Anyway, here’s one for you. I recently contributed a two-page comic to a zine by Lauren Jordan called Comfort Food Zine. The book was successfully funded through Indiegogo, and in it you’ll find a bunch of food-related comics by myself and 33 other artists.
My comic, naturally, is about bagels. Here’s what it looks like in the book:
It’s pretty simple. I did it all on paper in brush pen with Photoshop for the grays and a tiny bit of gradient. It was fun.
As far as I know Lauren has had the book with her at various conventions, and will be updating her store with them at some point. If you’re really interested in one you can contact me, because I have about 5 on hand.
That’s it for now! I also still have a very small amount of SLIME minis still available on the bigcartel store.
I was visiting home this past weekend, so of course I had to dig through all my old stuff for a wave of nostalgia. This time I discovered some things I had been trying to find for a long time, including some of my very first comics. Thus, I present to you—hailing from I’m guessing sometime around 1990, when I was 9 or 10—The Stupendous Stinger!
Or, rather, MARVEL COMICS presents…
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