A panel from the forthcoming BFX week. It's turning out pretty awesome. You'll enjoy it.
I scanned this using my new Canon scanner I bought on Friday. It's about a fifth of the size of my old clunker and comes with about ten times the options. I couldn't resist even though the old one was working fine. Oh, anyone know if it's possible to open up a scanner to clean the glass plate from the other side? I'm finding there was some dust that's stuck to the glass during manufacturing. It mocks me.
Finished partial inks on the Cloak & Dagger pic. I was fooling around with some colours on it and it looks pretty sweet. Can't wait to make it into a poster, man.
These are just test colours, btw. I intend to attack it with more gusto later on.
I watched Narnia and High Tension on Friday night with an old comrade, Daphne. Back to back after being awake for about 30 hours so it was a bit rough but I managed to find a second and third wind through beer and chips. Narnia was too overly kiddie for me. Being a Disney movie I half expected it to be pretty clean but not this sterile. The dialogue was bland and the story rather predictable. At least it looked nice. The minotaur was all kinds of awesome. High Tension was recommended to us by the video store guy as we attempted to rent the recent Rob Zombie flick. I forget what it's called. So, anyway, we took his advice and went with HT and watched it to clean our palettes of Narnia. First of all, I've always had this thing for french chicks and the protagonist is (surprise surprise) a hot french chick so kudos to that. Damn, I love that accent... Wooo! Gimme a moment here...
Anyway, ample amounts of blood is shed and a handheld chain/skillsaw is introduced illustrated here:
Freakin' mint or WHAT!?? Hot damn, I almost forgot about the bludgeoning with a stick wrapped in barbed wire. Bwahahahaha! I'm not a sadist. Honest.
The plot was alright. Everything happens over a 3-4 hour period which makes the movie feel somewhat rushed but the twist ending was kinda rad so it's worth a rental if you like thriller horrors.
Wow, lotsa pics in this post.
TAK
9 Comment(s):
Keith Cunningham said...
What do you ink with?
TAK said...
Keith - nibs and ink. I tried tech pens once but found I didn't get enough variation in my line. Although I use them on occasion to make small adjustments after nib inking.
Keith Cunningham said...
I tried some brush inking once and it just . . . wasn't pretty. I'm fast coming to the conclusion that I probably simple don't have what it takes to do the art in my own comic. It would be great, but unlikely.
TAK said...
yeah, brush is tricky. I did some shodo (which is Japanese brush art) when I was young and thought that could transfer into comics but it didn't happen. Not enough control for me. You should try nibs if you find the chance or you could do what I've been hooked on which is bumping up your pencils with contrast in Photoshop. lol Viola!! It works especially well when you work on your own and want to save time and money cuz time IS mohnaaaaaaay.
TAK said...
err... I think I meant Voila, there...
Keith Cunningham said...
Ideally, I would scan the raw pencils into photoshop and then play with them in there to get the final effect. Lately though, every time I've tried to scan penciled pages in it's been coming up as grainy and blotchy . . . certainly not the way it looks in the physical page. It makes coloring just about impossible. I'm hoping this means that I'm just having some sort of scanner issue or something. Have you ever run into this kind of issue?
Realms of Nowhere said...
My favorits are the Faber-Castell brush markers I believe??? They just kick ass.
TAK said...
keith - You have to keep your pencils super tight in order to colour directly on top of them. I also recommend drawing with extra paper underneath making it a semi-soft surface and press firmly while drawing. It helps to make the lines heavier. Also, scanning them as greyscale instead of the standard line art setting also helps greatly. Other than that, go in and clean up with the brush tool plus play with the levels, contrast and brightness.
realms - yeah, I use those for con sketches. They are awesome.
alfredo said...
That pic just made this site pg-13