Another Page Step by Step

Here's another one, still a few left. A bit spoilery this one but there's been a couple of Megs since so hopefully it's ok.

This done much in the same way as the other pages but on this there's quite a bit of digital inking done in Manga Studio. I tried something a little different and pencilled the page at print size. I took it into MS and inked it tightening up as I went along. In some ways it was good as I could leave a lot of things looser than I normally would and I could also sort out the perspective in MS. There's still something a bit odd about digital inking though. I think because you have to work a bit more zoomed in so that the accuracy of the tablet/cintiq works better you kind of lose that sense of how much detail is needed. When working on paper you kind of build up a sense of what will and won't work for reproduction. I was quite pleased with how it came out in print though as I think it was quite hard to tell the digi from analogue inks. Maybe with a bit more practice it will seem more natural, I hope so as there are a ton of advantages to going all digital. Oh yeah digi panels are pans 1,2,5 and 6.

Sketching and another commission

Some more sketches and a Black Canary commission. email me if you want one £25 plus p+p for something similar it's A4 size.

Another Page Step by Step

Here's page 3 from Meat. Same process as the earlier pages. On this job I really tried to leave as much as possible to the colours. Usually I like to use a lot of black in my stuff, it can hide a load of mistakes :) I'd like to get back to using more black at some point though, hope I haven't forgotten how.

Sketchbook stuff + a con sketch

Here's the usual random sketchbook stuff and a con sketch that I didn't have time to do at Bristol for Paul Trimble. There's also a little Manga Studio doodle there too.

Really enjoyed Bristol con this year was very relaxed and the weather was great. The Megazine was out there and it was great to see Rob Williams see it in print, especially as he seemed quite pleased with it :) When the Meg's been out a bit longer I'll do some more process posts on the other pages, going to milk that strip for all it's worth!

"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.