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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2016 8:15:11 GMT -5
'ALL NEW! True Life Space Cowgirl Jungle Romance Adventure Stories - for Boys' I like your initial cover and title as well ... you are very talented junkmonkey 
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Post by Overlord Thundersnow on Jul 13, 2016 4:55:31 GMT -5
Oh man that's pretty exciting!
Do you know who you're using to do the books? Is there a "Go-To" publisher for this sort of thing?
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Post by junkmonkey on Jul 13, 2016 20:16:37 GMT -5
We're using comicprintinguk.com/ We've seen stuff he's printed and he has a very good rep. I've never met the man but we have communicated by mail and he is very helpful. I get the idea he genuinely loves comics. It's not just another print job to him. |
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Post by junkmonkey on Jul 13, 2016 20:26:12 GMT -5
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Post by Overlord Thundersnow on Jul 14, 2016 2:05:09 GMT -5
Yes! Sketchbooks by the bed! I've been doing this now for about 4 years now. I usually make sure to draw at least something before dozing off. Or writing my dreams down if they were especially poignant. I really re-ighted my drawing passions 4 years ago when I had a dream that I had to put down on paper. I eventually wound up with this:  It was the very first large-scale drawing I had ever drawn. That one dream that I luckily sketched out before it drifted into space, forgotten forever (as most dreams do), has basically evolved my art style into what it is today:  So here's to hoping for more good dreams! |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2016 11:58:31 GMT -5
Yes! Sketchbooks by the bed! I've been doing this now for about 4 years now. I usually make sure to draw at least something before dozing off. Or writing my dreams down if they were especially poignant. I really re-ighted my drawing passions 4 years ago when I had a dream that I had to put down on paper. I eventually wound up with this: It was the very first large-scale drawing I had ever drawn. That one dream that I luckily sketched out before it drifted into space, forgotten forever (as most dreams do), has basically evolved my art style into what it is today: So here's to hoping for more good dreams! You are quite talented and I just loved the colors they are so vivid. |
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Post by junkmonkey on Jul 14, 2016 17:17:21 GMT -5
I wish I had the patience to work on such a scale and in such detail. (Personally I prefer the black and white drawing.)
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Post by Overlord Thundersnow on Jul 15, 2016 1:15:13 GMT -5
You are quite talented and I just loved the colors they are so vivid. Thanks! People either love or hate my colors.  I wish I had the patience to work on such a scale and in such detail. (Personally I prefer the black and white drawing.) The one in color took me a week. Coloring is such a time consuming process for me. I need to find a better way, but I'm usually too busy inking stuff. Save |
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Post by junkmonkey on Jul 15, 2016 13:02:01 GMT -5
What do you use?
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Post by Overlord Thundersnow on Jul 16, 2016 0:57:04 GMT -5
I used a Wacom Tablet for those two. Now I use a Cintiq, which is great for cranking out my webcomic. It's funny, because you get used to using a Wacom for so long, looking up at the monitor while drawing, that when I got the Cintiq it took awhile to adapt to actually looking at what my pen was drawing. Either way, using a wacom for years vastly improved my physical drawing skills, because it was like I had ankle weights on, and then finally taking them off. I realized I hadn't really used pencil and paper to draw for about a year. Now I sketch all the time, scan it, re-rough it a few times, ink it and then color it if I have the time. Also when I started, I taught myself everything about Photoshop. A huge undertaking. Then a few years ago I discovered Manga Studio and I haven't looked back since. What programs/ tools are you using junkmonkey? *Edit Weird, I can't get rid of this 'save' comment down below. What's that all about? Save |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2016 1:36:22 GMT -5
I may have posted some of these before, these are not mine, but my wife's work... Loki con sketch she did...  final color version she did for the fan...  Gargoyle on a rooftop...  Medusa version 1 in color...  version 2 in grayscale...  coloring book zombie drawing...  The fairies three..  a piece she titled Africa...  Dark Angel...  Dragon Woman...  her studio logo when it was actually functioning...  she hasn't been doing much lately and I have been trying to get her re-inspired/reinvested in doing more art, but it's been an uphill battle. -M |
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Post by hondobrode on Jul 16, 2016 19:04:43 GMT -5
That's great mrp !
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Post by junkmonkey on Jul 17, 2016 18:11:50 GMT -5
What programs/ tools are you using junkmonkey? My usual routine is write/draw thumbnails in pencil - most often in my in my sketchbook (some of the thumbnails can be pretty detailed - I quite often have no idea where a gag is going when I start on the first panel. If I get bogged down in writing, the drawing will become more detailed as I tread water before moving onto the next panel . Most of the time that gives my subconscious time to come up with something to put in it). Then I make a proper pencil drawing - this is my favourite stage. The only way I can work is to keep myself trammelled into a rigidly panelled page - I print out blanks with the frame lines already in place. Sometimes panels will be combined but it always starts out as 8 panels. (The Fate strips, for some reason, I do in a 9 panel grid but as panel 1 is always a title it works out at 8 panels of 'story'.) Then the pencil goes onto the lightbox (a flat LED perspex thing which cost me £30 on eBay and was the best 30 quid I ever spent). Inked up with fineliner pens. White gauche slapped over the worst mistakes, sometime white Post-it note tape for the bigger cockups Post it note tape is BRILLIANT stuff and used to hold drawings onto the lightbox and top of each other with damaging the paper's surface. Then the ink is scanned into Photoshop (Version 7) My 14 year old daughter drives it better than I can. We have a constant to and fro of conversations like: She usually wins. Once it's in Photoshop it's dropped into a template PSD file with all the layers and settings I usually need already set up and labelled. ('Bubbles', 'Bubble tails' 'Whiteout' '25% Grey' etc.) And then 'Coloured' (various shades of grey) and lettered. I have a Wacom tablet. Save. Print out a copy. Give it to my wife who will scribble all over it in a red pen marking typos and goofs, and making suggestions as to how to improve panels. Most of the time she is right and spots all sort of ways of tightening up the writing or redrawing to make things work better. Back to Photoshop. Tweak print edit repeat - a couple more times till we're as happy as we're going to get. Save. Post. I usually have several strips going at once in various stages so when I get bored with doing one process I move on to another. Keeps me off the streets. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2016 9:17:16 GMT -5
mrp, nice job on the artwork that you did recently - I loved the Medusa and the Zombie one in particularly!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2016 13:11:46 GMT -5
mrp, nice job on the artwork that you did recently - I loved the Medusa and the Zombie one in particularly! Again, not my art, it's my wife's work. -M |
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