Owing to severe weather conditions, this week’s comic class in Dublin has been cancelled. I’d intended to get everyone inking some blue line art. So instead, I’ll talk about inking here. There’s a few terms you’ll need to know: Spotting
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Day: 14 February 2024
mored dredd
photoshop/kyle webster brushes
5 ways to bluff perspective like an expert.
Well, maybe more. 1. Know the horizon line and the eye level. They amount to the same thing, except the horizon line is the furthest point in the distance (where the horizon would be if the world were completely flat
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Macbeth page 1
Done is better than Perfect. You hear that a lot in comics. Done is better than perfect. It’s like any aphorism, there’s always counter examples: Done perfectly is better than done. And no-one remembers how long a project takes, only
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Captain tomtom page 6
Back to the story, after our unscheduled ad break. (I had intended to properly interrupt the story with the ad, but decided to get back to it. Ad many appear in the back of any print comic…)
3d – from Sketchup’s Warehouse to Your Clip Studio Paint Comic!
I’ve been doing a lot of 3d stuff of late. Primarily, using freely available sketchup models to place objects then take screen shots which I then drop into clip studio to draw over. Sketchup is a phenomenal (and free!)
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tanks wip…
Captain Tomtom Page 6- advert break!
Thought I’d take a silly one page detour, to amuse Tom. My kids love that turtle meme. (You’d think it had played out by now, but they love it)
Once a day…
I’m kind of enjoying this one page per day thing. These are taking me between 10-50 minutes. (I hope, I haven’t timed them. I’ll be horrified if they’re taking more than an hour…). I’ve sort of got an ending for
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Captain TomTom page 5…
Tom had some edits – always valuable feedback. Found the flashback stuff a little confusing (I mean they’re in space, so flashbacks to them in space WILL be confusing for a kid) so I’ve edited page 4 to make it
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