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Apr/102
Apr/102
Inks Timelapse 3
Here’s another quick timelapse video. No voice over or anything fancy for this one, just the inks for my recent artwork. You will notice I’m using the rotation option in Manga Studio this time. It does help, after all if I were traditionally inking I’d be flipping the paper this way and that constantly.
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Mar/100
Mar/100
More On Coloring
My second coloring timelapse that doubles as a tutorial! My Rhode Island accent comes out BAD in this one, see if you can spot where I slip into it. I did slice and dice the footage on this one a bit because I didn’t want to make another 10 minute long video. I’ll try to keep them around 6 – 8 minutes now.
Sorry that it’s a bit jumpy at the beginning, getting used to some new capture software. Stick with it, it smooths out!
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Feb/106
Feb/106
Coloring Tutorial & Timelapse
This is my most complicated video yet! I even have voice over now! Footage and audio taken over several days, this would have been done sooner but… heh… um… Mass Effect 2 came out.
This video comes close to 10 minutes long, but I pop in now and then to explain some techniques I use or why I’m doing certain things and narrate while constantly losing my train of thought, so hopefully it’s informative to someone out there.
And here’s the finished image:
If you like, feel free to comment! I crave feedback!
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Jan/106
Jan/106
Digital Ink Timelapse 2: The Artist’s Bane
I was really struggling with this drawing. You don’t see the very beginning of it because I thought I shouldn’t record it. But then it occurred to me: timelapses make people look far more competent than they really are so it might be fun to watch me messing up and erasing and getting frustrated as artists do (also didn’t help I was working on that arm like an hour and a half before I had to go to work.) So that’s basically the beginning of the video. This one comes in at a whopping 6 1/2 minutes as the rest of it is nearly the entire drawing so it’s twice as long as the last two, but it’s also funnier so I hope you enjoy it!
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Jan/1019
Jan/1019
How to Cheat at Backgrounds
It’s a sad truth that most people can’t draw everything. Artists who are good at drawing organic things like trees and people are usually bad at drawing man-made things like cars and buildings, and vice versa. This is why in comics and animation you generally have a specialized background artist working on the project. Or in the more manga-centric world the use of screentones, which you’ll see me use screentone flowers in this video. Despite the fact they are indeed organic flowers are surprisingly one of the hardest things to draw.
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Jan/1010
Jan/1010
Digital Inking Timelapse
I know this isn’t really a tutorial but I’d rather not have too many categories. Besides it might teach someone something. Maybe. I’ve seen timelapses of people drawing before and thought it would be fun to make one. Sadly this isn’t the whole drawing, I had more footage but I messed up the compression on the rest of the video I recorded. I’d like to do more so definitely tell me if you enjoy it!
As you can see in the video I’m not all digital still, I sketch in pencil and scan it into the computer, though it is faster and cleaner to do digital inking (not to mention you can easily change your mind.) I’m still not totally comfortable with a tablet so you often see me shaping lines with the eraser.
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Sep/092
Sep/092
Comic Making Lesson 2 – Planning
Welcome back, boys and girls, to my half-lecture, half-tutorial, all whatsit lessons on comic making. At least comic making from my own point of view.
In the end we are all students, I’m also still learning but that can’t stop me from passing on my wisdom of dubious quality. Keep in mind my lessons are general guidelines, there is no one way to draw comics, but as I revealed in lesson 1 there are several annoying cliches, rookie mistakes, and things you might want to avoid in order to keep an audience’s attention.
This lesson will be about the process of planning out a comic itself. I’ll be using my one-shot Mage Knights as an example.
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Aug/097
Aug/097
Comic Making Lesson 1 – General Tips
When I asked my loyal slaves fans what sort of tutorials they’d like to see from me one that came up was comic making. Namely paneling, though one person asked about world-building and such. There’s alot of how-to drawing tutorials out there but I’ve never been into that sort of thing, not even with the really really old tutorials I used to do that the more adventurous of you could still find.
So consider these posts about comic making to be a series of lectures. The sort of disorganized, questionably helpful lectures you’d get from most aspergian college professors. I’m reluctant to get into the heavy duty technical stuff all at once (especially given my own comics process is haphazard and “learn as I go along”ish), though I’ll be using parts of my current project as an example in the future. For now I just want to go over some tips and tricks and mainly things to avoid.
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