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Watercolour, digital
An interesting commission where I had to draw an artwork inspired by the client’s music piece, titled “fall, falling, fallen”. It was a different experience for me and was a lot of fun! The intention was to have the girl contrast greatly with the flowers around her.
Edited to add a few progress photos. Also the artwork was originally intended to be upside down, but more and more I’m starting to prefer this orientation.
Step by step shots of my Diana vs Leona drawing.
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How I make the comics
I’ve been asked a few times how my comic making process works now that I’ve switched to penciling digitally, so I’m going to do a write up about that. As always you can find all my blogging about making comics on this handy tumblr post.
So, previously I made comics completely traditionally. Here’s a write up of how I used to make comics. All of the pre-drawing of the comic still applies: I still do my thumbnails by hand, scribbled in a notebook.
Now I draw comics on a Cintiq, in Manga Studio. Here’s what my initial desktop looks like:
That’s Manga Studio, and my template comic page. It’s 10 by 14 inches, and the blue lines are my safety, trim and bleed. All important artwork and dialogue/speech bubbles should go within the safety.
I draw with a red pencil (Pencil-Layout Red) from the Frenden Manga Studio brush pack. I can’t remember which pack I bought, but there’s only 3 on the Frenden site and I’m sure they’re all great. Frenden does great brushes. Why red? It’s just easier to see than blue. For some reason I have a hard time sketching with a blue pencil on a screen, although I still draw with blue on paper. I don’t know why that is.
And here’s a rough comic page! Ta da! It’s pretty messy. I used a lot of reference to draw Nameless City. This is page 97, so a right facing page in the published book. Therefor the bleed on the second panel is bleeding off of the page and not into the spine of the book.
One of the best things about Manga Studio is its perspective tools. I’m not an expert in using them, so I recommend looking up someone who really knows what they’re doing if you want to know more. I mostly just use the 1 and 2 point perspective grids to figure out where the floor is in certain panels, so I can more easily place characters within space. Very basic stuff, but it has made my life so much easier. I would marry Manga Studio’s perspective grids if I could. :D
Then I clean up the page a bit. Eventually I hope to eliminate this step, because it’s time consuming. All I do is adjust the colour of the pencils to blue and trace over the figures I feel need improving with red. I usually only do this with main characters, an attempt at keeping everyone consistently drawn (lol).
This is what it looks like with the rough pencils turned off. I never had to do this when I drew traditionally, and I think it’s because I’m not yet used to inking over digital pencils. People ask me about inking and how I “find the right line” to ink, and the answer is I just do. But for some reason I can’t with my printed out digital pencils. So until I become more accustomed to them, I need to do clean up. It sucks! Just an extra step I want to eleminate.
Then I bring the file into Photoshop and prepare it for printing. The pencils always print darker than the look in PS, so I put down a layer of white overtop the pencils and adjust the layer’s opacity to 55%.
Here’s the paper I use for printing, same paper as I’ve always used: Strathmore Bristol, smooth surface. I cut down these 17 x 14 inch sheets to 17 x 12 so they’ll fit in my printer.
My lovely printer! I do adore it. It’s an Epson Artisan 1430, the size of a keyboard and it’s been great. I printed out 200+ pages of blueline comic pages on only two cartridges of ink.
It’s printing!!!
And done! Now for inking.
Unfortunately I didn’t take a picture of this page when it was half-done, but here’s the finished product. I don’t ink my borders because I can’t draw a straight line, even with a ruler. :D Borders I do in Photoshop.
I use a brush for inking. These are the brushes I use: Raphael Kolinsky watercolour brush, sizes 0, 1 & 2. I use the 1 for most of the page, the 0 for finer details and the 2 for larger areas. Anything that’s a straight line is inked with a pen. I tend to use Faber Castel pens, usually a small or extra small.
So that’s pretty much it! After I finish the page I scan it and prep it for printing in Photoshop, which is pretty boring.
The main question I get when I talk about my process is “Why don’t you ink digitally? Then you won’t have to scan.” I would very much like to eliminate scanning from my process, but at this point, I really love inking traditionally. It’s the part of the comic-making process that I enjoy the most, and I also think that traditional inks give my comics their unique look. I’m just not ready to take that step and ink digitally for my graphic novels, although I have done it for shorter comics. Maybe someday, but not now. :) For now, this is how I work.
I hope everyone enjoyed the post, and feel free to shoot me any questions you might have.
Faith Erin Hicks with another generous dose of useful, no-nonsense information. Good stuff!
the process of making this illustration x
A little rushed at the end, i forgot to take more screenshots lol
JiJi from Kiki’s Delivery Service!
Lineart by Cinna! Colors by me!
This image has been created for Bear & Bird’s upcoming Ghibli homage show. <3 The original painting will be there at the gallery for sale, maybe with a few prints in attendance as well! This painting was pretty quick and simple, so I thought it would be fun for me to do some progress shots and try to describe what happened the painting was made.
my draws gettin’ painted + tutorial!
there are so many more effective, consistent and convenient ways to do this but I usually go about it the basic way mostly because detailing lace can be so therapeutic most of the time lmao
After I first posted a photo of this personal project/gouache painting I had several people ask me questions about my process, workstation, palette, set up, paint, etc. It took me a while, but I finally put together some video clips of the painting process. I hope to do more videos in the future! Please forgive the shaky camera moments and the poor lighting, I’ll work on that. Thank you for watching!
Stars and Denim process
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Hey if you don't mind me asking, what advice would you to get inspiration for interesting and creative character fashion, yours is always so good and unique!
I’m flattered you’d think my stuff are interesting, anon ^///u///^ if I were to summarize my general process, it’s really just me mixing-and-matching a collection of different shapes/motifs which I’ve learned to draw all these years!
my design professors from back in college were always telling us how we should always build up a “mental database” of little things we’ve practiced how to draw, so we can draw them even without thinking too much about them and subconsciously enrich our designs- I’ve tried taking this advice to heart re: my character clothing! if there was One Thing™ I really liked about a certain outfit I find online, I’d find out what the Thing™ is called, try to practice drawing it, then try to do variations of it so I can keep it fresh ^u^
US president also warns Netanyahu that Israel must protect civilians and aid workers or risk losing US support
Joe Biden has called for an “immediate ceasefire” in Gaza, telling Benjamin Netanyahu that future US support for Israel will depend on it taking concrete action to protect civilians and aid workers. As the two leaders held their first phone call since Israeli airstrikes killed seven employees of the international food charity World Central Kitchen (WCK), Biden issued the strongest US rebuke toward Israel since the start of the conflict. In Thursday’s call, which lasted less than 30 minutes, the US president “made clear the need for Israel to announce and implement a series of specific, concrete and measurable steps to address civilian harm, humanitarian suffering and the safety of aid workers”, the White House said in a statement.
The deal, which would be one of the largest U.S. arms sales to Israel in years, awaits congressional approval as criticism of the war in Gaz
^ this article is from 3 days ago.
This sale is still pending in Congress, because for once he can't rush it through with no oversight because it's 18 fucking BILLION DOLLARS.
Also, his quote:
Biden “made clear the need for Israel to announce and implement a series of specific, concrete, and measurable steps to address civilian harm, humanitarian suffering, and the safety of aid workers,” the White House said in a statement following the leaders’ call. “He made clear that U.S. policy with respect to Gaza will be determined by our assessment of Israel’s immediate action on these steps.” Biden also told Netanyahu that reaching an “immediate cease-fire” in exchange for the estimated 100 hostages that are still being held in Gaza was “essential” and urged Israel to reach such an accord “without delay,” according to the White House. Administration officials described the conversation as “direct” and “honest.”
Note the bolded text.
He's not calling for an immediate ceasefire, he's calling for Israel to retrieve its ~100 hostages right away *with* a ceasefire as part of the negotiations.
Biden is desperate to get more positive press, do not fall for it, hes still trying to sell them 18 billion dollars in weapons to continue their genocide.
President Biden told Israel’s prime minister that future U.S. support for the war depends on new steps to protect aid workers.
All of that is true without a doubt but the news in the above tweets is still significant.
Usually we'd get press releases about Biden privately calling Netanyahu an asshole. Usually Blinken pretend to care about the civilian deaths while doing everything he can to allow the slaughter to continue. But now Erez Crossing is being opened to allow aid in.
We should continue to be skeptical but also recognise when moves are being made. This was always going to happen especially due to pressure from the pro Palestine movement. All those protests, the disruptions at fundraisers and ports, the #uncommitted campaign, etc were all meant to lead up to the two tweets above
If things continue in this direction, ie the Biden administration continues actually pressuring Netanyahu, our task is to ensure we remind people how many Palestinians they've killed and what it took to make them stop
the Palestinian resistance
the Red Sea blockade
Hezbollah's attacks on the northern territories
the Islamic Resistance in Iraq targeting American bases and Israeli cities
inflation and rising oil prices
protests and boycotts
international condemnations including the ICJ case by South Africa, etc
not the kindness in Biden and Blinken's hearts.
If things don't continue in that direction, then we keep doing what we've been doing.
you know how people say soup is round and so it's messed up to put it in a square tupperware? that's how I feel every time I see a square watch
curious what your thoughts on this are then
It says guess bcs you're more likely to actually figure out what time it is that way.
How do you feel about Qlocktwo?
You know given my dyscaculia this is actually easier for me to read than a regular analog clock AND it's giving old school cheesy secret agent vibes so I think it's so ridiculous that it loops back around to being cool again. Still, wish it was round.
Okay this one I think you will probably like then
Reveal by Projects
Super easy to read
I have an addition:
"How do these clocks make you feel?"
Someone brought me this beauty for a battery change a few months ago
It wraps around your wrist and it's probably the coolest watch I've ever seen at work
That's actually the coolest watch I've ever seen in my entire life, thank you for sharing!
Actually days are square. Time is a series of squares.
Or is it?
I'm gonna say it.
It's unhinged to assume that someone's taste in fiction equates to what they believe is moral or good, or is something they want to see or experience in real life.
That is a bonkers assumption to make.
I'm tired of humoring people with long arguments about it when the simple fact is it is a totally fucking absurd reach to accuse someone who enjoys something in fiction of being in favor of it in real life.
I'm tired of pretending like this is a legitimate position to hold-- that they should be afraid of fiction's dire influence on a reader's moral decay or that it's a sign of what the author secretly wants for realsies in real life.
Online culture’s uncritical adoption of:
* moral absolutist ideologies
* the worse sorts of English classes that treat art as a psychoanalytical puzzle to solve, with a ‘correct’ answer
* fandom/geek circles’ obsessively insecure need to define media tastes as ‘objectively’ good or bad
has led to an absolute perfect storm of holier-than-thou moralism. You can’t just dislike anything these days, you have to crusade against it. It’s a rotten mentality to the very core.
gonna add this absolutely applies to anybody other than pedos. common to see this argument coming out of pedos, annoyingly
I'm tired of humoring people with long arguments about it when the simple fact is it is a totally fucking absurd reach to accuse someone who enjoys something in fiction of being in favor of it in real life.
It also is really fucking annoying as a CSA survivor to constantly see the term "pedo" thrown around because someone likes ageplay or an underage ship or whatever. Shipping is not pedophilia. Fanfic and fanart are not CSAM. Get a fucking grip and focus on real life harm instead of worrying about fake people.
It also makes it actively harder to talk about abuse. Like, when I see someone called a "pedo" or "zoophile" or anything of the sort it's hard to even tell at this point if they're actually abusing animals/children or if they just liked the wrong piece of fanart. When we misuse serious words like this, we make it actively more difficult to talk about them.
That’s exactly why antis do it! They behave in ways indistinguishable from how predators and abusers may act:
Make abuse difficult to discuss
Encourage youths to NOT talk with adults in their lives
Create moral panics that frequently drown out real issues
I'm gonna say it.
It's unhinged to assume that someone's taste in fiction equates to what they believe is moral or good, or is something they want to see or experience in real life.
That is a bonkers assumption to make.
I'm tired of humoring people with long arguments about it when the simple fact is it is a totally fucking absurd reach to accuse someone who enjoys something in fiction of being in favor of it in real life.
I'm tired of pretending like this is a legitimate position to hold-- that they should be afraid of fiction's dire influence on a reader's moral decay or that it's a sign of what the author secretly wants for realsies in real life.
I promise you it is still getting me death threats in 2024.
Folks, friends, y’all…. esk*mo is a slur. I understand a lot of people don’t know that, I don’t want to be a dick about it, but I’ve been seeing it in fics. Wanna write “esk*mo kisses”? Just say “nuzzled noses” or something.
I’m not here to call anybody out, it’s been in multiple fics, I’m not vague posting. This is just a psa. 👍🏻
If you could help me spread awareness about this by reblogging, I’d really appreciate it.
I’ve had this post on insta saved for sometime ❤️
[Text Description: “Hey! Reminder: Eskimo is a slur. It means ‘snow eaters’ in Cree and is a slur against Inuit . Also don’t use ‘Eskimo kisses’. It’s called Kunik. It is a greeting mostly used for family… Kunik was how I’d greet my mom and grandmother as a small child.” /TD]
Rebloging for the awareness and especially for the alternative words
And so people who are just learning this now know the proper usage: “Inuit” is plural. The singular is “Inuk”, as in “he is an Inuk”
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Hey there! Long time lover of your art, and my curiosity got the better of me. I've checked your FAQ but I'm dying to know if you have any tips/tricks for how to render gold. No matter which style you draw it in, whether more painterly or simplified (like for Étienne & Benoît), your gold accents always feel like they have the crucial elements of both warmth and the like. reflectiveness?? ITS THE GOOD STUFF either way
OGH THIS IS GONNA BE A BIT HARD TO EXPLAIN BECAUSE it's a lot of accumulated studies but I'll try ;u;
FIRST OFF: I feel like I have to say that these are all just shortcuts- I've learned just enough about gold to be able to convey the illusion of gold on what I draw, in the fastest way I could do it, for quickly putting the ideas in my head on paper, but this is by no means a comprehensive guide!
If you really want to study the physics of it all, the way it would work with different materials and styles, then I highly suggest doing a lot of self-studies!
Even when painting smth new- if it's really something I want to work hard on, I tend to have gold references open on the side so I can look at them and figure out how they work!
Ok, so moving on:
