Super Office Man, page 01.
Wanted to see what it was like to do a comic, so here is the beginning. No text or color yet. Took some inspiration from the office I work in for some of the images. I had been looking at Batman Black and White while I started this one. Don't know if I'll feel the need to add color or not. I will say that so far, comics do seem to take
time. Laying out multiple pages, image sequencing and how that might go with the text, which points-of-view to use. And then inking, that seems to be a whole other thing in itself. I don't know, I may be too much of a slow mover/perfectionist to ever crank out comics with any kind of speed, but they are fun to explore for now.
Sketch, ink.
With simple Photoshop color. Generally not liking digital color. Must return to more hand-rendered color.
Did these up in a hurry for our meal out on the lake in Minnesota. MinneSOTa. OH YAH.
A bit older sketch that I inked. Then, fun with markers. Did a lot of research and then decided on Copic Sketch markers. Two tips, one a wide (though not as wide as the standard Copic) and one a brush tip (very nice). Also still compatible with the Copic airbrush system which I haven't used for a finished sketch yet. This one still seems a little unfinished, but I got distracted and moved on.
In researching old engraving and pen stroke techniques for a (losing) T-shirt design entry for Corporate Challenge (turns out bold, simple graphics look better on T-shirts, at least in the eyes of this committee), I tried finishing some other sketches (including this one) in the same manner. I'm always trying to get better at drawing people, and after drawing this soldier, I got fed up with always having to draw from my mind (as opposed to drawing from a reference), so I decided to put my thumb (which I could look at) under him and a beer bottle cap (not that one was lying around or anything) behind him. And that is how these two worlds of scale came to be in the same place.
