1) All By Hand (I very likely won't be doing this)
2) Hand/Digital Hybrid
3) All Digital
My first inclination was to use some flavor of a hand and digital method (and I still might), but I came across this book on Amazon that describes an entirely digital process. I ordered the book, received it yesterday and went through a quick exercise that covers the rough sketch to inked drawing completely in a digital environment. This is my first experiment with some added color. On the plus side, the workflow is super streamlined even though I'm a little clumsy sketching on the Wacom tablet at the moment. On the downside, my Wacom skills need some work and I don't end up with nice pencil sketched pages like I would in a hand drawn process. Also, digital inking is also going to take a bit of experimentation in terms of brush settings, but I think with a little practice I can get my skills to an acceptable standard.
I still plan to try a hybrid flow (hand pencilled to digitally inked and colored) before I decide which way to go for the actual pages of my comic, but overall, I liked the all digital method and may end up employing it. Here's the drawing that I did.
Nice prototype, Mike. And I totally understand the workflow thing. It definitely has to be figured out so all the pages can look consistent and be processed in a methodical fashion. Great time saver.
ReplyDeleteI prefer to do the pen or pencils analog and then scan them at high res and make them more pronounced. But that's just my personal preference, I like it to appear a rougher I suppose. But for coloring, I'm all in the digital camp with you. The Wacom is a real time saver!
Do you ink on a copy of your pencils?
ReplyDeleteI do for the Peck stuff. I'll scale up the pencil drawing to about 120%-150% then ink it over a light table. But for Incompatibles, I use cross hatching with technical pencil and scan the original at 600 dpi grayscale. I adjust Curves in P-shop to polarize the values. Then I flat it out in layers and colorize it. At one point I'll sample it down to 300 dpi for print purposes, but I like the initial higher res to have room editing lines and spaces.
ReplyDeleteAhh, thanks for the info!
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