Monday 15 July 2013

Marvel girls Inking process - Video Tutorial

Inking comic book with nib pen, brush and indian ink, using the old school technique. Here some video about my inking process. For the first and the second characters I used the nib pen using the traditional technique. While for the third one I tried to use a simple pen like Pigma micron for just to see the main difference between the two technique.  Sorry for the head of the first video:P



Wednesday 10 July 2013

Marvel composite

Sketches before inking

Marvel composite - Spiderman - Capitan America - Iron Man
SpiderMan, Capitan America - Iron Man - Cathlin Fairchild

Marvel Ladies

A first sketch about Marvel ladies

Marvel Ladies - Iron Girl - Miss Marvel
Just for really ladies

Monday 17 June 2013

How to ink comics with pen and ink


Once completed our draw we are ready to ink it. You can use different tools to do that. This depends on witch tool you are confident with. You can use traditional tools like pen like Pigma micron clam ink pen set, witch is perfect for beginners or the old stile and charming ink pen with hunt pen. This is actually more difficult to use but could it get you great satisfactions:) I use both, it depends on what I'm inking on.

Tuesday 11 June 2013

How to color comics book in Photoshop - 1st part

Welcome in this tutorial, here we are gonna learn how to color our comic books with Adobe Photoshop. In these first part we are going to prepare the line art for colors.


1-Preparing the line art
Once you got the art board with the pencil inked, you can start scanning the paper. After the scansion we have just to adjust the brightness and contrast of the line art in order to clean-up the art board. In fact also if the draw seems to be clean, it need a quick correction to prepare it for the color. 
You have at list a couple of way to do that in photoshop:

Image/Adjustments/Brightness and Contrast. Move the two arrow until you get the right balance. You should get something like this.





Thursday 6 June 2013

How to color comics book in Photoshop - 2nd part

In this second part of the tutorial we will learn how to prepare and set the main background paintings in order to make the art board ready to get the color.