More Sketchbook stuff.

Haven't posted much for a while so here are a few pages and a couple of life drawings.

10thology Step by Step

Here's a breakdown of how I did the 10thology pinup.

I based it on an old sketch. I scanned this in and quickly worked up a background in Manga Studio. Using the concentric circle and one point perspective rulers this was a doddle. I printed the whole thing out in a light orange as I wanted to try and replicate my sketchbook style and see if I could take it on to a slightly more finished look. The drawing went quite smoothly but I messed up the face a little. I drew a new one and patched it in in photoshop. I also went back to Manga Studio to do the spaceship. I set the greywash drawing layer to multiply and coloured underneath. I didn't add the spaceship till last and coloured it on a new layer.

Cardiff Comics Expo

Here's a couple of sketches I did today at a preview for the Cardiff Comics Expo. It's on next Saturday and I should be there all day sketching. Ticket sales have gone really well so they may do a 2 day event next time.

Captain America Commission

and the rest of that room...

Even More Sketchup

More Modelling

10thology Sneak peek

Little bit of an illo for the 10thology comic. Due to be released at the Cardiff Comic Expo this February.

sketchup models

Building models for my new book. Here's a couple of one of the characters room. Not sure whether I've gone ott with the window frames or whether to leave them simple.

Drawing Demo Vids

A couple of vids of me trying out a Wacom tablet mod made by Lez Wright. It's pretty good and works out quite a bit cheaper than the real thing. You can find out more here. The Jedi one has come out a little dark but you can see the pic at the end of the video.

Sov Judge

Deckard Commission

And another one.

Not quite sure why I'm doing these but they're fun.

Sketching again...

The rest of that page.

Ended up doodling over the rest of the page.

Little Sketch

Quinch

Another commission, still taking orders if anyone fancies one. £50, p&p free!

More Sketching

Sketchbook Stuff

Here's some sketchbook stuff, plus a couple of the sketches done at Birmingham. Had a great time there, sketched pretty much constantly both days. The web address on the top sketch is from one of the people I did a sketch for I've just drawn around it.

*edit* found a couple more sketches on line. Anderson and what's supposed to be a Red Sonja had no idea what her costume was so I just made something up.

Meat page 9 process

Another page from Meat almost done every one now.

I think I did the rough for this straight in Manga Studio, can't find any little thumbnails in my sketchbooks anyway. Just went in and sketched away then put on panel borders and perspective grids to match what I'd sketched.

The first panel was pretty straight forward so I just loosely did some blue pencilling and inked straight on top of it same went for pans 4 and 5. Panels 3 and 6 needed a bit more work so I pencilled them pretty tightly and inked using the blueline method mentioned in earlier posts. Panel 2 was a re-use from an earlier page. I decided to render that whole page greyscale it was supposed to make the whole colouring process go smoother, it didn't, I'll go into that a bit more when I do a step by step on that page.

Next up are the inks pretty self explanatory on this one, though I did decide to make panel one a full bleed panel also I inked some building silhouettes with the hatching brush in Manga Studio.

Colouring, same as usual though I did recolour the re-used panel, keeping it all red made colourising the greyscale simpler and I think it looks more effective than the original panel. I used a technique of adding some extra shadow to the last panel by colouring the whole panel normally but then on a new layer set to multiply I added a dark green and then lowered the opacity.

Oh yeah, the guy kneeling down touching the blood wasn't in the script, I imagined him as some sort of psi judge who could touch the leftover bits from an accident and kind of tap into what happened, forgot to put any psi logo on him though so he probably looks a bit weird.