"meat" page 6 step by step.

The first pic is the thumbnail from my sketchbook. I changed my mind a bit on the first panel and did another little sketch along side. I scanned them in and added panel borders and perspective grids in Manga Studio. I can only find the top bit of pencils but you can still see the perspective grids from MS on it. I think I may have skipped the re scanning bit on the bottom half and just inked straight over tightened up bluelines. The latest Meg is out now so go buy it!

New Header

god that was a pain to do wish I knew a bit more about html...

Bobba Fett Sketch

I'll be at the Bristol Expo this weekend, should hopefully find somewhere to sketch on both days, see you there!

More Manga Studio Roughs

New Dredd Film

My Dredd cover (with colours by Chris Blythe) up on Aint it Cool News site to promote the new film! check it out here

Manga Studio Sketch

Sketching

Oxford University Press roughs

Done in Manga Studio, with the layer set to greyscale.

Step by Step

Seeing as it's not out for another couple of months I thought I'd do a step by step of one of the panels from the Dredd strip I did recently with Rob Williams.

The first stage is the tiny thumbnail from my sketchbook. I do the whole page very small and loose I'm probably the only one who can tell what's going on. I scan this into Manga Studio and then use the panel cutter tool to panel up the page. Then I may do a little bit of drawing, in MS, to make things a little clearer. I'll also put a perspective grid on. I still try and keep everything very loose at this stage as I like to print it out blue and do the pencilling on top.

Next is the pencilling, I've removed all the blue from this so the perspective grid isn't too visible any more. I then scan this in place it into the right panel . I'll do this with each panel on the page. Then convert the whole lot to blue and print out ready for inking...

Then to the last stage. I scan in the inks and put them under the panel border layer I created in Manga Studio. Then I colour the whole thing in Photoshop.

Sketching + an interview

Here's some more sketching and a link to an interview I did recently here with Lex Castanheira.

Sketching

Tweets

You can follow me on Twitter here http://twitter.com/DylanTeague

Diamond out today!!!

http://www.amazon.fr/casse-Diamond-Christophe-Bec/dp/2756014125/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263980777&sr=8-2

Sketchbook

Here's some of the usual sketches plus a quick re-working of Rose O'Rion. Going to do an illo for an upcoming short story by Kek-W for Zarjaz.

Cleanup Job

Another panel from upcoming strip, love doing sci-fi backgrounds :)

Another Step By Step

Diamond will be out soon! so here's another step by step.

I mixed up the way I did pages on the book quite a bit. This page was done by working on an A5 template of the page. I printed out quite a few of these so I could sketch down ideas while going through the script. I then did my usual method of blowing up to artsize printing out in blue and tightening up, then printing bluelines of the pencils and inking. Dunno what happened on this but for some reason my brush was working great doesn't happen often but it was a real joy to ink.

colourised sewer

Digi Grey

One more, trying digi greyscale now as it's a bit more controllable.

Trying something new

Trying out some different techniques on the Dredd strip.

Oi!!!!

Spaceship, type thing.

More colour experimenting...

Life Drawing

Colour Test

A little experiment, trying to make my computer colours look a bit more water colour like.

Step by Step

Here's a step by step for one of the pages in Diamond.

At the top is the initial rough for the page. This is what I'd send in for approval to the editor and writer of the book. They wanted a few changes to this one as it wasn't looking enough like a French album page. The first change asked for was to pull back a bit in panel one so that you could see full figures of both of the characters and also more of the surrounding room. The biggest change needed was for the last 2 panels. They wanted to see much more through the window and to really get across the feel of the surrounding village. At first I misunderstood this a little and sent my second rough showing a lot more of the bedroom, d'oh. The next stage is my pencils which have a sketchup model for the bus put on, I've started using stuff like this quite a bit.

Anyway this ended up being one of my favourite pages from the book and I'm glad I was pushed to change it quite a bit.

All images copyright Bec/Teague/Araldi/Delcourt

Another Sketch Post

A selection of random heads...