Above, a minute-long video showing a few of the good ol' tools in action.
For most of the line art, my Zebra brush pens are proving pleasant. They're more rigid than the Saku...
2021-04-08 17:00:49 +0000 UTC View Post
… asks DD’s mom, in the top-right panel. She will find out in due course.
This week was weird! I did a bunch of page prep (“pencilling”) on Monday, then a bunch of “non-work work”...
2021-04-02 21:10:26 +0000 UTC View Post
I really like how this sequence turned out. Sitting at my desk, hunched over the paper, I whisper to myself, "maybe this comic will be all right."
If you click through the images, you sho...
2021-03-26 23:05:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Some lessons carve a groove in your brain. For whatever reason, this is one of those for me. In animation school, one of our teachers taught us that you might use a ruler to draw straight lines in ...
2021-03-25 19:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Want to see some rigging get drawn?
This is an hour's work, sped up to 10 minutes (that's as much as my video editor will let me do). More than anything, I just wanted to test out the process...
2021-03-24 23:25:06 +0000 UTC View Post
…in case you were wondering how the pages from this post turned out.
For the pirate page, I drew the bottom pa...
2021-03-24 16:15:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Quickly: Dip Pen Nibs
I was experimenting with dip pen nibs earlier t...
2021-03-20 23:04:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Exciting! The pages are turning out better than I expected. I’m using a combo of Pentel brush pen, Microns, a Pigma fine brush pen, black watercolours, and my trusty ol’ Prismacolor Ebony Black...
2021-03-19 22:54:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Not an easy page to begin with, but I wanted to try that watercolour effect. It’s not as masterful as I’d like, but I just need more practice. The colour will hide a lot of the gracelessness. :...
2021-03-17 02:27:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Above: favourite panels from this week’s batch of work.
Still roughing in Chapter One of DD4, which has come out to 45 pages. Only six pages left to do, which I’m hoping to accom...
2021-03-12 21:30:25 +0000 UTC View Post
A quick test, wondering if I should try a mixed media approach for the “line art.” My lightweight, bright white drawing paper takes watercolour better than I expected. It warps, but probably no...
2021-03-09 18:38:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Above, a select few roughed-in pages for DD4 (as before, apologies that they’re so hard to see). This is my favourite part of the process, I think. At this point, each page has so much potential....
2021-03-05 21:20:54 +0000 UTC View PostYears ago, I heard this great recording on CBC Radio 2, where the host reviewed a Mozart work passage-by-passage, pointing out the repeated themes and talking about how mathematics informed (or cou...
2021-02-26 22:03:57 +0000 UTC View Post
I’m just extremely pleased with this pose. That is all.
2021-02-24 22:49:57 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm in the process of roughing out and/or blocking in the first chapter, getting a few pages down every day. Unfortunately, it's a part of the process that doesn't give me much of anything to post,...
2021-02-23 21:18:31 +0000 UTC View Post
They may not look very glamorous*… yet… but I have roughed/"pencilled" out the first three pages of DD4. Going straight from the thumbnail, I have "broken ground" on the clean line art.
T...
2021-02-20 00:30:25 +0000 UTC View Post
I was having a hard time progressing on the first few DD4 pages, I think because I didn't know my boat situation well enough. So I took some time out to do some boat research and make some choices ...
2021-02-18 17:54:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Over the past week or so, I thumbnailed out the first "chapter" of DD4, doing a lot of writing as I went. It was pretty successful!
I'm going to take the entire first chapter to final art bef...
2021-02-16 01:01:42 +0000 UTC View PostLike it says on the tin: how often would you like to see posts on this Patreon campaign?
Seems like Patreon sends out an email every time I post something, so assuming you are in ...
2021-02-11 01:16:38 +0000 UTC View Post
A while back, I wrote a series of posts talking about how much I would like to change...
2021-02-11 01:01:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Thinking about Mom a little. Born and raised on an Ionian island, she eventually met a visiting Englishman, fell in love, and accompanied him back to his family Estate. She feels affinity for both ...
2021-02-08 19:47:39 +0000 UTC View Post
This was frustrating for a few days: I knew I'd need a few different costumes, and I had a bunch of reference at my disposal, but I didn't know exactly where to aim my efforts.
After a bunch ...
2021-02-04 23:22:21 +0000 UTC View Post
The design for the Pirate Captain is challenging my design discipline. At various points in my education, I was told to "never go with your first idea." Get your first idea out of the way, then kee...
2021-01-30 22:02:15 +0000 UTC View Post
The purpose of the "Character Design" process is to create drawings of characters to which I can refer as I am working on pages. Primarily, this is so I can keep everyone looking consistent as I go...
2021-01-27 00:15:01 +0000 UTC View PostTwo things:
First: a big, big Welcome to everyone who has joined as a patron over the last month or so. You've all given me so many reasons to be optimistic about this endeav...
2021-01-24 17:58:57 +0000 UTC View Post
THIS WEEK I have been putting my story notes through a writing process originally referred to as the ...
2021-01-22 20:05:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Been trying a few different landscape and environment studies!
To shake out the cobwebs, I've been doing a few studies from research images. The first, above, is from 2021-01-15 03:43:09 +0000 UTC View Post
I said I was going to try new things, so I'm trying new things.
The current First Step in Making A Book is to accumulate a denuded forest's worth of assorted notes (a small number of which ar...
2021-01-12 22:02:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Back when I first put The Turkish Lieutenant online, I'd get the occasional question like, "how long were you in Turkey?" which I—admittedly with a little shame—took to be a compliment...
2021-01-09 02:52:09 +0000 UTC View Post