Creating a Comic Page
Scripts and Layouts
Drawing a Reduced Size Layout
Assignment - Reduced size Layout
Drawing a Full Size Layout
Line Weight, Shadows, and Rendering
Assignment - Penciling
Inking
Nontraditional Page Layouts
Drawing Perspective Heavy Environments and Locations
Environment Pages: Line Weight, Shadows, and Rendering
Page 3 - Thumbnailing from Difficult Scripts
In this lesson, I’ll demonstrate how to ink lush backgrounds without distracting from the figures in your panels.
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squeen
2yr
SUMMONINGS BY STYGIAN MOONLIGHT
Tried to ink a night sky like Franklin Booth and missed by a mile! :)
Ultimately I punted and introduced a gray-washing (digitally) to get the feel of Moonlight.
Oh, ink! You are such an unforgiving task master.
Credit goes to Art Adams for the gesture of the priestess.
squeen
2yr
@Steve Lenze : I want you to know how much I appreciate you taking the time to show me some pointers. I've gotten all my art instruction from on-line source these past two years, and great feedback like this is probably the thing I miss the most from not having a formal (living) instructor.
I love your compositional ideas and will take them to heart. This is just a page from my sketchbook. In particular, one in which I thought "Could I shade a night sky like Franklin Booth?" (I recently bought Flesk's Silent Sympathy art-book about him). The composition was ill planned and once the levitating mummy was in it (started in October, of course) I floudered around quite a bit trying to balance it with other figures before I settle on the buried devil and priestess. Failure to plan is planning to fail...or so the saying goes. I knew that it was compositionally weak, but did not know how to fix it. Now I do! Next attempt will hopefully be better.
Of course, I am just learning how to ink too. :P
Thank you!
Steve Lenze
2yr
Hey squeen,
I wanted to show you some things that I think will help you in the future when doing complex compositions like this.
First of all, all the elements in your image are roughly the same size. The problem with this is that it kills the feeling of depth in the image, something we want to avoid. You do have a nice triangle composition going on, but it's smack in the middle of the image, causing it to look static. That is also the problem with putting the horizon line right in the middle of the composition.
I did a couple of quick sketches to show you how you can do different iterations of your idea, exploring ways to make it more dynamic and interesting. These are not all you could try by a long shot, but hopefully it will get you thinking. I hope you find this helpful :)
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I’m a comic book artist for Image, Marvel, DC, and others.
