More playing in Clip Studio Paint using Frenden’s brushes.
Author: PJH
PJ Holden is a comic artist and this is his blog.
Wolf Dredd(reprise)
One of the things I’ll do on the patreon is revist work and see if I can, using a minimal of editing tools push and pull it to improve the storytelling. There’s a surprising amount of improvements can be made
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Dredd Wolf
When John McCrea told me he was writing a sequel to the Judge Dredd white werewolf story, I pretty much forced him to accept a pin up for it. The Cry of the Werewolf was one of those defining moments
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Happy birthday Kirby.
The excellent Tom Rainey drew a picture of Modok and like a thieving weasel I downloaded it and coloured it.
Hulk! Patreon only!
So here’s an even bigger view of that hulk pic. Worth a download – the smaller views of it smooth out a lot of the really nice texture that frenden’s brushes introduce. I think the most successful colour work has
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HULK!
A quick Clip Studio Paint Sketch (15-20minutes?) drawn using some of Frenden’s natural media tools. Sort of Bruce Timm/Kirby inspired.
Hunted Pencils
This is from Hunted Series 2, episode 4 Inks were a frustration for me, popping between digital and pencil. I think they look better than I felt about them at the time, but that’s sometimes the way it goes. I
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Projects that went nowhere
Clip Studio Paint Brush Management
If you’re a Clip Studio Paint (formerly Manga Studio) user you may have encountered Frenden before – he has a range of brush tools for Manga Studio (and I really recommend picking them all up, but at a minimum the
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Thank Crunchie
I generally don’t do the crunch thing. That is: last minute deadline work ’til you drop. Partly it’s because I’ve always been pretty fast – whether that’s down to my art style or laziness I guess we’ll never know. I
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