Tutorial Tuesday: Process

Hey everyone. I'm really swamped this week. So I hope you don't mind that for this week I just show you some of my art process instead of a "how to draw" tutorial.  I guess this is more of a "How to plan out your art" tutorial.  If you like seeing my process you can see more when I talked about "How to make a Comic", "Process", and "Tones".

Today I'm going to show you the process of the page I just posted yesterday. Page 16 of Shadows of Oblivion #2

So believe it or not this page was conceived about 7-8 years ago... (wow, this comic has been a long time coming).  I didn't know where I wanted this to happen in my story, but I knew I wanted it to happen.  So behold the terrible artwork of Shono back in 2005....



 

Oye.. This should also be a tutorial on how if you keep on drawing for 8 years you get better...  ANYWAYS....

Fast forward to me writing Shadows of Oblivion #2 I found a place for this scene, however it needed to look a little different to work for the purpose of the story.  So i did a sketch to figure it out...



 

Well though it's a hot mess of scribbly lines... I like how this looks.  It fits the story and is faithful to the original concept.  Lets pencil it!



 

Now since I'm my own inker on this comic, (in fact I do all the work on this comic)  I pencil a little looser and a little messier.  I don't want to waste time drawing really tight pencils just to draw it again with ink. This is just to get all the major details and poses down so I can ink it later.

So now i convert this line art two blue line, to make the inking easier...



 

Now we Ink....



 

This issue of Shadows of Oblivion I used a couple different ways of inking.  This particular page I inked Digitally using Manga Studio. Other Pages I used a brush pen.  There is no "Right or Wrong" tools to ink with, so to speak.  You want to use whatever gets you the lines your looking for.  You don't need to go spend $100 on digital software, if you can get the lines you want with a bottle of ink and a broken chop stick.

So since I inked this digitally I can remove the blue line layer and It looks like this:



 

Tone time!  Most of you are probably would add color here, but I've always been a fan of Black and White.  Again I'm using Manga Studio to add the tones. This is something you can do traditionally by hand... but I don't recommend it.  It's tedious and expensive.  This is one of the few times buying a $300 piece of software will actually save you money in the short term compared to it's traditional counter part.

So we have something like this:



 

Last but not least, the word balloons!



 

And there you go! The process on how I bring a page from concept to finish!  Hope that got you thinking about your own process!

We're back to our regular posting schedule, so tomorrow you'll have page 17 or Shadows of Oblivion #2.  Until then, check me out around the web!

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