Process – Page 3

Scritchy Scratchy Screen

Posted on 5th March 2023 by PJH

As you may or may not know, I bought a Huion Kamvas (sic) 16 graphics tablet and – for the price – it is FABULOUSLY impressive – honest. Resolution, while not 4k (it’s HD, but in a 16″ screen that’s
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Dept of Monsterology

Posted on 20th February 2023 by PJH

Way back in time (2010?), Gordon Rennie and I kicked around the idea of a book called “Monsterology” (which needed renamed cus it turned out there was already a book called Monsterology). And we ended up finding a publisher in
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Drawing the Basics

Posted on 18th February 2023 by PJH

I have an immense and somewhat impressive library of “How to Draw Books” which, I’ll be honest, I’ve barely read. So I should make the effort, right? And I am. Starting with the grandaddy of them all – How to
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Drawing page sizes for 2000AD

Posted on 6th February 2023 by PJH

Here’s how I fit comics on to A3/A4 paper – A3 paper width is 297mm. 2000AD Page Size safe width is 264mm – subtract one from the other = 33mm, divide by 2 = 16.5 and I just measure in
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Planning the week…

Posted on 4th February 2023 by PJH

I know I’ll illicit very few sympathies for this, but it can be tough planning out when you’ll finish a book when you can find yourself hitting spurts of speed and equally, suddenly losing a day for family reasons can
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The Digital Studio

Posted on 30th January 2023 by PJH

Here’s my computer setup for work. Acer Asus 4k 27″ Monitor (which I can show 3 roughly print sized pages on across ways) cost: £179 (I think I picked this up as a bargain, it was the last of two
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Four page days

Posted on 18th January 2023 by PJH

I’m scheduling the pencils I’ve got to do this week for four page a day. Absolutely bonkers, but very doable. I mean, for a start my pencils are super rough (a guide for my later inking). Hoping I can get
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Sometimes you rule.

Posted on 6th January 2023 by PJH

Old school meets new school. If I could ever get a digital ruler tool as handy as a proper ruler…

Drawing a Crowd

Posted on 5th January 2023 by PJH

Some people have imagination to burn, NOT ME! so, when required to draw a crowd, I’ll stick something on tv and liberally steal from every extra that walks past. Right now I’m catching up on Servant which means M Night
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Friday Fixup: Rebel Yell

Posted on 11th November 2022 by PJH

Jim Stafford (website here: https://www.jimstafford.co.uk ) said “I’d love any tips you could give me to pimp up page 2 (the yelling heads). Other pages for context.” Firstly, let me say this is good stuff, man, what can I tell
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