Can I see your sketch vs final art?!

[Kiweevil]

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[aqua03]

Here's a random character I did just today.

[ChaoticConstellation]

Sketch and final for my comics end card!
https://tapas.io/series/Ready-Spaghetti

[Gramkrackerhan]

This is a character I created for a future chapter in my comic graham cracker, but one I like so much that I’ve been using at the end of my chapters. It’s a little weird but I hope you guys enjoy it haha

graham cracker | Tapas

[oliveoly]

Here are my sketch and finished drawing

[darthmongoose]

Concept/layout:

First pass of pencils before review and edits:

Second pass of pencils with edits and improvements:

Finished piece:

[Rhonder]

Mine goes through a few steps. I'll use this recent illustration as an example.

First when I'm working out a pose or composition I'll do really small thumbnail sketches like these while I try to think through what I want. These were the unused ones for this pic that I dumped on a layer to turn off:

Once I figure out what I want to draw I'll do a "rough sketch" layer. I've taken lately to sketching in a few different colors as I develop different parts of the picture or character. It helps to differentiate things when I go to ink. The rough sketch is also mostly just for proportion/anatomy. I try to avoid going into too much detailing or clothes at this point.

My last sketch is the "clean sketch" layer. This is where I add in aforementioned omitted detailing using the rough sketch as an underlay:

skipping the middle steps, this was the final art:

This was a standalone illustration, but I go through similar steps on my comics as well

[Kelheor]

The second step usually includes a few redraws and clean-ups

[Legendofgenii]

I clean up my sketches as I go too, but I tend to draw the details in from the beginning. Most of the time I’m just tracing my own sketch lines (when inking) and don’t have to change much.

I’m quite quick at sketching, but inking and colouring (and special effects) can take me a while.

[alextsarace]

steps on doing pages

[DelythThomasArt]

[rumpenstiltzkin]

from messy sketch to finished
i refine my sketches a few times until i feel happy enough and go over it with lineart and then just play around with the colors till i like it enough.

[BlairFujin]

Latest Vampire Prince page

Vampire Prince | Tapas

[irresponsiblepics]

Due to me only releasing a strip per week I like to not show anything in advance but here is what I was working on last week..no final image..that's for release but this is as close as I'm willing to share for now XD
I tend to just illustrate straight into panels rough then clean up. Rarely have any rough art now since using digital.

Wellside Wishes | Tapas

[FritzC]

I usually just clean up my sketch for line art... when it comes to traditional art I usually just draw directly with ink/pen without a pencil sketch.

but I did find an early page of my comic where I drew the thumbnail page traditionally and then the final page digitally

[nostalgicroxas]

This is an older art of mine, but I work in... blobs?

Generally a lot of my more original lines I like and try to retain as final lines since they have a ... I shake? A nature to them that I like as "my own".

[silverraven0]

Oh boi. The way I ketch is very varied. Sometimes it’s only the bare minimum like this :

I want planning to do the hand at first so I made it on a different layer, but it got deleted lol. But I drew the rest without other sketches except the hair (which is also got deleted ^^; )

Then there’s a more Coherent sketch like this

And the three sketch stage) I did when I do commission :

[arcojawa]

Sure sure

Surprising Octeal

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