One Week Delay, but a look behind the Scenes as a Conciliation Prize.
on August 13, 2009 at 10:05 pmHi Cats,
I’m taking a week off to get a buffer. I’ve got two penciled pages now and hope to have three completed pages by next Friday. If all goes well, I’ll go back to twice a week. Anyway, so not to leave you cats with nothing, here is a little look behind the scenes. It’s not a tutorial, but just a little look at the process.
Here are the pencils from a recent COTC page. As you can see they are pretty rough. Some elements, such as the coffin and cross, are mostly scribbled in. Since I’m my own inker, well I pretty much know what I want, most of the time. 
Currently, I’m using a Wacom Intous4 to ink the pages. I switched from a traditional brush to digital back in April. I ink primarily in Photoshop, but as you can see, the coffin and cross are not yet in the image. They were created in Illustrator and then pasted into the page.
And here is the final inked page. This was the first page where I really thought I had gotten the feeling for digital inking. For me it’s still a little slower than the traditional method, but I feel I have more control.
Almost done. Here is the final color page, minus the dialog. The DRACULA name on the coffin was added as a Photoshop effect.
And here is the final page, lettered in Adobe Illustrator. Sometimes the dialog balloons hide a lot, but not so much in this case. Anyway, thanks for looking. Next time I do a “behind the scenes” maybe it will be on coloring.
Thanks!
Yay you’re alive!! glad to see you are feeling better and i cant wait for the next part
You really are a talented artist.
The initial sketches, although \”messy\” have a life in them that\’s its almost a shame to move past…nice to see them.
Very nice! I agree with Tyto: the initial sketches do have their own life. I wish I was half as talented an artist!
I knew there was talent but the quality of the rough sketches just unequivically proves it. You can even see Chelsea and Seebo in the rough sketches.
After looking this over, I had to go back to the earliest pages of COTC and refresh my memory. Your progress as an artist has been (expletive deleted) incredible!!!