Yo!
I'm all coffeed up and a little bleary around the edges. I just hammered through a stack of connective tissue cartoons. --Images designed to tie together episodes of one of my little side-projects which has become rather a front burner main stage attraction around here of late. I'm trying to get things ready for a new graphic novel which is growing into a bit of a monster, clocking in at 200+ pages. Just a cute little Anne-of-Green-Gables-From-Space kind of thing. It wasn't meant to take over my life like this!
Anyway, I did a stack of these on my handy-dandy Portege M200, and since this site has been so very helpful in my finding my way aboard the whole digital art phenomenon, I thought, "Yeah! I want to share too!"
It's funny. When I got into this game a million years ago, I was dead-set against digital art. But the nature of the printing biz is such that sending real-ink-on-bristle-board-artwork is just no longer a viable option. If you don't ship digital files, they'll just scan your stuff for you and probably not do it up to your personal standards.
So into the digital domain I trotted, and was never entirely happy. --Until now, that is. I am rather astonished to report that my line-work finally looks the way I'd always wanted it to. Even after years, I never truly relaxed with my inking tools. With this whole un-do feature, and with the removal of scanning imperfections, I can now jump in and find myself getting cleaner, more expressive lines than I'd ever achieved before. Pretty amazing.
The only drawback, of course, is that there is no longer any hard artwork around. If the power goes out, so does my portfolio. But you run with the times. It certainly hasn't hurt the value of my paper artwork any. Paper comic pages are a dying breed, and that makes the stuff valuable. Never saw THAT coming. Go figure.
Anyway. . , here's a bunch of coffee-induced sketches. I'm going to sleep now. Cheers!
(This one is actually a few months old. But it's the very first use of my Tablet PC on Stardrop, so I wanted to share! I had to save it for a while until the story caught up.)
This one made me really happy. I was trying to mix a sort of Doctor Seus look with space-tech. It's a fine line to be able to drift back and forth between serious and slightly goofy, but a story like this one calls for both in hefty quantities; making them fit together is magic when you get it right. It's amazing how you can do this simply by altering the expression of your line work! Design 101, I guess, but it still blows me away that it's even possible.
That's enough. I've done a billion of these things, and there's a billion more to go. I just hope people end up liking the book when it finally comes out!
Cheers!
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