The bad guys call the retreat

Inking some freelance comics today in Manga Studio EX 4, and loving Ray Frenden's custom nibs. Changing the way I ink in MS. The nibs can be found here: http://frenden.myshopify.com/products/manga-studio-4-inking-and-natural-media-brushes #comics   #inking   #illustration   Google+: View post on Google+ Post imported by Google+Blog. Created By Daniel Treadwell.

Manga Studio EX4 for $30 Friday?

Found this via Tumblr: http://coelasquid.tumblr.com/post/36218759450/just-a-heads-up-to-any-interested-parties-this Though I couldn't find a direct link to the sale on the Smith Micro site (can anyone help me out with that?), it appears that they're going to offer Manga Studio EX4 for $30 on Friday to anyone who subscribes to their email list. That's 90% off the regular price. You [...]

Petty Dreadful Progress: Comics Process, Soup to Nuts

Now that The Front: Petty Dreadful is underway with updates, I plan on blogging the process as I go. I talked about the whys in a recent Lean Into Art podcast. So how do I get from story idea to final comic page? It all starts with a combination of notebooks and Evernote. I jot [...]

Petty Dreadful Progress: Changing Gears

So after inking my first page of The Front: Petty Dreadful, I was dismayed. As happy as I was to be working on The Front again, it took far longer to pencil, ink, and flat the first page than I anticipated. There are many reasons for this (and I plan on talking about on the [...]

Drawing for Myself – Petty Dreadful Progress!

Stole some time today to work on the new Front comic. While I got one page penciled, inked, and flatted all in one afternoon, the truth of the matter is that I’ll have to speed up. I was being far too precious with this page as I penciled it. That’s way tighter than I had [...]

Drawing for Myself – Red Ranger

Continuing on with my Manga Studio inking tests. I’m finding the pen tool in vector mode is pretty intuitive. The brush tool, however, was not today. RED RANGER Pencil and Manga Studio on 8.5×11″ paper It came as a surprise to me that the brush’s density and size depend on the speed at which you [...]

Drawing for Myself – Inking in Manga Studio

So after seeing Audra Furuichi draw in Manga Studio at the AADL Comic Artists Forum, then watching a demo by Stephen McCranie on Comics Are Great! 46, I just had to set aside some time to play with this Manga Studio thing everyone in comics seems to be talking about. I kept hearing about how [...]

Comics Are Great! 46 – Manga Studio

This episode is packed to the gills as I’m joined by a full house of great people who are all eager to talk about comics! First up is a discussion on drawing digitally in Manga Studio with Stephen McCranie, who leads a demonstration of how he draws his comics in the program while Paul Storrie [...]

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Comics Are Great! 36 – Inking Foo

If you’ve ever wondered about “analog” inking techniques and tools, this is the episode for you! I’m joined this week by Michigan cartoonists Joe Foo and Mike Roll for a talk on why and how they use the brush to ink their comics. You might want to watch the video of this week’s episode, as [...]

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Thunder Punch Daily 110 – Categorizing the Process

Today I revisit a topic I don’t think I’ve touched on in a while (maybe not since the Your Comic From the Ground Up series!): namely, whether or not an artist should finish each page of a project in its entirety before moving on to the next one, or whether breaking the process into several [...]

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