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Published: 2011-05-10 05:11:50 +0000 UTC; Views: 872; Favourites: 30; Downloads: 20
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I'm swamped trying to get issue 3 of INSURRECTION off my plate so I haven't really been able to post much of anything. I have found a few minutes here and there to finish up these Indy sketch cards though, so here's a little bit of something.Sketches and pin-ups can be tough for me a lot of the time. I'm a story guy through and through so drawing some super hero just jumping around becomes difficult - I'm often left with a blank canvas of a mind for quite awhile.
These Indy cards are the exception though. I love doing likenesses and Indy's one of the all-time greats. If I'm just drawing for the sake of drawing, drawing Indy is about as fun as it gets. I took screen caps to get these shots and I drew them in order, as any Indy geek would obviously know.
I have many more of these planned. I have no idea when I'll get to them but they're planned. Whatever that means.
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You're welcome! :]
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Thanks man; nothing but fun.
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Thanks Bill. And yes, real ink and markers. Believe it or not, I still do more stuff with the ink than the digital.
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Just jokin'. Wish I did more digital.
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Me too! Joking, I mean. I do everything digital now.
Okay, that was a joke. The joke was a joke.
Joke. Joke. What a weird word. You ever have that? You look at a word a few too many times and suddenly it looks goofy in a way it never did before?
The truth is that I'm starting to blend the traditional and digital more and more. I end up doing most of my figure work with ink on paper but do more and more background stuff digitally, or add effects and tones and stuff digitally. Most every page seems to be a mix nowadays. Unless I DO do it all digital. I just did three pages that way but am now back to the mix.
Heh heh. I said "doo doo".
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I've had that same experience with words. Or when a simple common word all of of sudden seems spelled weirdly.
I'm totally down with the combination of hand drawn and digital. Of course on a cintiq it's as hand drawn as can be. Just not on paper.
I'm sure if I had an updated system I'd be very happy to do all my pencils digitally and then either lightbox or blue line for inks. Then finish in color digitally. That darn Nic Klein is doing really nice combinations of traditional and digital.
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The best part about doing pencils digitally is that if you have a good figure drawing but feel that its placement is off, you don't have to erase it and draw it over again. It's that editing ability that really makes it so valuable. You can also flip things very easily to check for wonkiness.
I do a lot of post inking stuff in photoshop as well. When I'm inking sometimes I'll see something and decide that, instead of going through all the hassle to do it with inks I can just to it in photoshop. An example would be drawing ellipses that I don't have a handy guide for (like if it's bigger than anything I have and I don't want to hassle with french and/or ships curves). Another example would be the adding of textures that would just be too time consuming or difficult by hand. Photoshop makes that so much easier and efficient.
And yeah, the cintiq just makes the digital process that much easier and efficient. And natural, since I'm looking directly at what I'm drawing, or where I'm drawing. I used to be really good with the tablet but I lost that coordination very quickly after getting the cintiq.
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