#learning comics

[chankilan-comics]

Got a Tumblr now and now ima post some art here (this is some old art i did)

[pantmonger]

The Rogue Doc Shop, Necromunda. Pencils done, now to decide if I should paint this one up traditional concept style or get in there and give it some inking in a comic way. Decisions. decisions.

[chankilan-comics]

Just wanted to share this page of my upcoming comic because i am quite proud of it

[dark-horse76]

Decided I want to learn how to flat, if I can, so I started actually trying it out today.

*Noooooo* idea if I'm on the right track, but hey, at least it's not super messy (I don't think). Or at least, it's less messy than I thought it might be. And I learned some other helpful things!

May need to invest in a desk. Doing this on my lap on the sofa is super awkward xd. It's also very hard to keep my hand from touching the screen and fucking everything up 😂

It's far easier and faster to do things right the first time xd rather than having to spend a truly ungodly amount of time cleaning things up after

This may be *waaaaaaaay* too much fun xd

(The line art is, of course, not mine. It was included with the tutorial I was doing, which is Learn Digital Coloring with Clip Studio Paint by Color with Kurt.)

[dark-horse76]

This thing I'm working on has a couple of pages in it that will be painted, and I've been going back and forth trying to figure out how to hand letter something that's painted and also not having much luck finding information on the topic. For some reason, it makes sense to me (or at least, I know how I'll do it / how I have done it) if the drawing is either just pen/ink or coloured with markers, but paint doesn't make sense xd

So I asked The Internet Void, and some lovely people on the other twitter had some suggestions. One I'm not sure I'll be able to do, 'cause I think it needs software, but I'm going to try with like GIMP or something, see if that can do it.

The other options are doing the letters during pencilling, then covering it with tape or masking fluid or something for painting and finishing it after OR doing the lettering separately and pasting it onto (a copy of) the art.

I can't decide which way might end up looking best (and, more importantly for this particular project, be easiest xd), so I've decided to give them all a go with some test pages.

So today, I drew/painted this. Going to test the computer and pasting methods with it. :D (Sadly not until Friday, though, as I won't have access to a scanner until then. Boo xd)

I don't know how I managed to mess up the union flag 😂 I guess I had the wrong angle or something IDK

I should've mixed the black to make it watery/grey before painting, but I didn't realise until after I started that I didn't want a very thick, opaque black.

It was a little bit painting by...letter xd I was getting very lost with which lines were which part of the flag lol

Every time I paint, I end up putting too much paint on the palette, but I hate wasting the paint - especially since right now I'm mostly using my set of professional-grade acrylic gouache - so I always try to make another painting just to use it up. This is what I did today:

I like the way the purple ended up, especially when I mixed it with some of the white.

[dark-horse76]

Eeee! Y'all! I'm so excited! I'm makin' things! :D (Calling this thumbnails 'cause that's technically its purpose at the moment, I am not actually trying to draw - not that my actual is much better/different ROFL but still)

LKDF;jkadf;jkadslf;ldsjfsk weeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[dark-horse76]

🥰🥰🥰

Time to make notes! :D :D :D

Got some page numbers in 'cause I'm really going to need them lol

and my flags set.

Now just gotta decide what I want to analyse/what questions to consider (got some to start with).

Maybe general (re)read w/notes should be first, then specifics🤔

This is gonna be so much fun : D

[dark-horse76]

First pass of Enfield notes is done!

The book has gained a few dogears and scribbles xd

Gonna dive in more deeply next and see what I can learn.