Comics help please?
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siguneI am trying to figure out how best to go about drawing the comic. The questions are many: colour or monochrome? Pencil or ink? A4 or A3? It is important to get everything right, so that I don’t run into trouble at some point in the future.
I had more or less decided on inks and monochrome, because black and white is what I think I do best. Colour still gives me trouble. I adore watercolour, but I am not good enough at it to paint a comic. I have seen digital colours that I like, but I don’t have the Photoshop skills to achieve them myself. Nevertheless, in a comic in which the colour of the hero’s hair and, occasionally, the colour of his enemies plays a part in the story, it would be kind of nice to have colours.
Now – one way of colouring that I do feel up to is with colour pencils. I like what I can do with pencils on the pages of my Moleskine notebook, so I sought loose sheets on which I could more or less reproduce that effect. The paper that I think comes closest to Moleskine is Bristol board. So I had a try with that.
The image in the middle is the original: graphite + colour pencils on Bristol. The real thing is very crisp and rather lovely. Some of the subtle skin tones got lost in the scan, as did the blue of her eyes. But all in all I don't think the scan is so bad.
On the left is a greyscale version. If I want to see the story printed, I have to take into account that colour printing is much more expensive than black and white. If I have to finance a print run... So I thought it might be good to see what this coloured work looks like in b/w.
On the right you get an idea of what pencilled art might look like with some texture Photoshopped in. Better or worse?
Colour test by *Sigune on deviantART
(Click and go to dA for a full view)
Do you think it would be nice to have a completely pencilled comic? How about colour versus greyscale? Or do you think inking is preferable? How do you think pencilled art will reproduce/print?
Opinions and advice are very, very welcome. Please do let me know what you think!
I'll try to do a complete page using this technique soon, as a test..
I had more or less decided on inks and monochrome, because black and white is what I think I do best. Colour still gives me trouble. I adore watercolour, but I am not good enough at it to paint a comic. I have seen digital colours that I like, but I don’t have the Photoshop skills to achieve them myself. Nevertheless, in a comic in which the colour of the hero’s hair and, occasionally, the colour of his enemies plays a part in the story, it would be kind of nice to have colours.
Now – one way of colouring that I do feel up to is with colour pencils. I like what I can do with pencils on the pages of my Moleskine notebook, so I sought loose sheets on which I could more or less reproduce that effect. The paper that I think comes closest to Moleskine is Bristol board. So I had a try with that.
The image in the middle is the original: graphite + colour pencils on Bristol. The real thing is very crisp and rather lovely. Some of the subtle skin tones got lost in the scan, as did the blue of her eyes. But all in all I don't think the scan is so bad.
On the left is a greyscale version. If I want to see the story printed, I have to take into account that colour printing is much more expensive than black and white. If I have to finance a print run... So I thought it might be good to see what this coloured work looks like in b/w.
On the right you get an idea of what pencilled art might look like with some texture Photoshopped in. Better or worse?
Colour test by *Sigune on deviantART
(Click and go to dA for a full view)
Do you think it would be nice to have a completely pencilled comic? How about colour versus greyscale? Or do you think inking is preferable? How do you think pencilled art will reproduce/print?
Opinions and advice are very, very welcome. Please do let me know what you think!
I'll try to do a complete page using this technique soon, as a test..
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Date: Saturday, 10 April 2010 05:33 pm (UTC)Quite apart from my Comics Quandery, I'm just happy that I manage to do something nice with pencils once in a while ;-).