One of my New Years Resolutions was to better my hand drawings. i sketched these in the style of Mort Drucker (and Jack Davis and Tom Richmond). I love the cartoon style of drawing hands. I saw an interview with Mort Drucker where he said that as a young artist, he saw that many cartoonists were avoiding drawing hands because they are so complicated and that's why he devoted so much time practicing drawing them.
I got this for Christmas and just wanted to recommend it to anyone making comics. It covers hand lettering, computer lettering, and digital coloring. Not a beginner book.
I was looking at some old Marvel comic art and sketched this page from John Buscema when he drew Silver Surfer. I penciled it with a mechanical pencil and Inked it with a no. 2 sable brush.
No, I just digitally colored it like the original comic and then lowered the saturation. My main focus was to ink it entirely using a sable brush.
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Dude, if those blacks were more solid, the inking would look fucking aces. Like, top notch shit.
EDIT - However, I don't care for the light, washy looking colors. Although they give me a nostalgic feeling, like looking through old 80's - early 90's comics when they colored with dyes, they're way too watered down. There's no punch to them.
EDIT2 - I'll give you this much though. Even if you are referencing classic Marvel comics, you've got balls trying to make Mephisto look cool post One More Day.
Buck, yeah I kept the colors "period correct". The real comic is actually from the 70's. I grew up on Kirby, Buscema, Romita, etc. (I'm really frickin' old.)
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You don't have to be old to respect the fucking shit out of Kirby, Buscema, or Romita. You just have to have great taste.
Iabsolutely love old horror comics, I have a few stored away somewhere... I should dig them out.
I have to say also, it is so refreshing to see someone taking the time to learn to ink using real ink and dip-pen/brushes rather than jumping straight to digital -- imo, every step of learning with real ink is hugely invaluable because you can't just Ctrl+Z when you pull a poor stroke. You have to consider each and every line as well as the order in which you ink a page.
Learning that level of concentration and discipline is a great achievement.
Manon, i wanted to tweak the colors some and then didn't re-post it. It was about 1:30 a.m here and I'd been drawing all day. I'll add it with my next post. Thanks for checking in, though.
I've been flipping through a Milton Caniff book lately, some Steve Canyon stuff to be exact, and the prints of the strips include all of the original inking, even as it'd bleed over the edge of the panels. It's pretty awesome.
Manon, thanks.
Yeah I'm constantly deconstructing Caniff, Eisner, Wood, Dave Stevens, etc. Those guys really knew how to spot blacks. A little depressing how some of the old school ended up, though.It's also interesting to see how much the Japanese have influenced newer artists.
Yeah, I can just adjust a shadow and make a space. I learned a lot doing this piece. I've been leaning more to the European style of inking. Cartoonists in Europe seem to ink with thinner lines where as American comics lean more toward really smooth brushed lines. This a generalization, of course, but I'm just fascinated with ink and traditional inking tools.
I've been working on some original horror comics to try to sell since there seems to be more of a market now than before. These are a couple of things I decided not to use. I inked the pencils with a no. 3 Raphael sable brush and a crow quill 102. Lettering was done with a crow quill 107 that I filed a bevel on. Larger lettering was done with speedball nibs and scanned in later. Coloring is digital.
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I think I already asked this.
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you must have the wrist of a thirteen year old boy!
http://www.amazon.com/DC-Comics-Guide-Coloring-Lettering/dp/0823010309
Personally, I was hoping for a copy of this for Christmas:
http://www.amazon.com/Book-Genesis-Illustrated-R-Crumb/dp/0393061027/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262801104&sr=8-1
Looks like I'll be buying that one for myself.
EDIT - However, I don't care for the light, washy looking colors. Although they give me a nostalgic feeling, like looking through old 80's - early 90's comics when they colored with dyes, they're way too watered down. There's no punch to them.
EDIT2 - I'll give you this much though. Even if you are referencing classic Marvel comics, you've got balls trying to make Mephisto look cool post One More Day.
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'Nuff said.
Steam handle: Buckwolfe
Inking looks great though, however I'd adjust the levels to make those blacks solid.
I have to say also, it is so refreshing to see someone taking the time to learn to ink using real ink and dip-pen/brushes rather than jumping straight to digital -- imo, every step of learning with real ink is hugely invaluable because you can't just Ctrl+Z when you pull a poor stroke. You have to consider each and every line as well as the order in which you ink a page.
Learning that level of concentration and discipline is a great achievement.
Fantastic stuff, keep it up.
It's always what comes to mind when I think of hulk comics
I've been flipping through a Milton Caniff book lately, some Steve Canyon stuff to be exact, and the prints of the strips include all of the original inking, even as it'd bleed over the edge of the panels. It's pretty awesome.
Yeah I'm constantly deconstructing Caniff, Eisner, Wood, Dave Stevens, etc. Those guys really knew how to spot blacks. A little depressing how some of the old school ended up, though.It's also interesting to see how much the Japanese have influenced newer artists.
I'm just kidding, your stuff is rad.
Manon, more like submitting stuff to existing titles.
Especially on The Shadow, but especially on that last page