I are have been drawing tanks. Lots of tanks. Working on episode 1 of a five part Tank story written by Garth Ennis. (Shh! still not officially announced) This past few months has felt like relentless crunch. Working on Dredd,
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Ignoring the crowd
Sometimes a writers script will call for a crowd of people, or a crowd of tanks or some other crowd. As the artist your job is to make the final call on whether that crowd is absolutely necessary. Say you’re
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In the eye of the storm.
Today has been an odd day. After months and doing two jobs simultaneously, one job finished totally and the other … well, the other was paused while I waited for approval. So yesterday I finished off a pitch thing, hopefully
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Thumbnails
Exhausted. 20 Pages thumbnailed. Find it totally exhausting. These are digital thumbs, which I tend to draw more detailed than normal thumbs (since I can really get in there). Having now drawn a half dozen pages of draw overs of
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Some behind the scenes stuff!
Here’s the pencils for a larger panel. Yes, my pencils have gotten even less detailed. Digital inks though…
Two things down…
That’s Dredd 6 parter finished! Hurrah! And some art for a pitch thing! Hurrah! Now just a five part 20 pages thing to finish, a seven page thing I promised someone ages ago, and uhm… I think I was doing
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mored dredd
photoshop/kyle webster brushes
Ink
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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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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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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