Post WIP steps of your comic pages!

@frgmnt
Sun, 03 Mar 2019 16:13:18 +0000

@frgmnt wrote:

I love seeing other artists' WIPs, too. My process is... needlessly complicated?

I make page thumbnails, based on the script, in a notebook I have just for this purpose. I need to do a lot of planning at this stage, otherwise it is (even more) suffering.

Drawing begins, on A4-sized paper. I divide the page into panels, make very rough sketches, and a 1000 years later I get them to a state where I can refine the lines and do the hatching (which I do with a softer pencil; I tried inking but I guess lolnope).

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Scanning, cleaning the scan and arranging the panels into an actual comic page. At this point it looks like this.

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Colors/values (this step is my most hated because of how much time it takes, even though over years of coloring with a mouse I did find ways to make it faster)

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Add color overlay, textures, effects etc., and finally add in the text and speech bubbles.

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Done! ...aside from having to fix millions of other mistakes I noticed way too late :"")