Normally I wouldn’t start inking until I had all of the penciled pages of the story done, but just for the sake of this experiment I decided to go ahead and ink this one page and see it through to completion. I pretty much always start inking with a brush, then fill in smaller details …
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Jan 04 2005
The pail’s progress pt. 4
Well, here’s the completed pencils of the first page. This page threw me a few loops, and I’ve wouund up breaking a few generally acccepted “rules” of comics storytelling in order to set this page up the way I wanted to. First, I’ve made some changes from the script. This isn’t really a “rule” per …
Jan 03 2005
The pail’s progress pt. 3
For each panel, I usually start working up a drawing in my sketchbook or on another sheet of paper. Again, I work in colored pencils–starting with a light color and moving to the darker ones to build up an image I’m happy with…to be able to make corrections and move things around without having to …
Jan 02 2005
The pail’s progress pt. 2
As some point in the process before you really start drawing, you’ve gotta get a handle on the characters you’re going to be drawing. In this case I’ve drawn the Boxing Bucket a bunch before–and he’s not really that difficult to deal with…you see, he’s a bucket with arms and legs. The other character in …
Jan 01 2005
The pail’s progress
One of the most common misconceptions that people have about cartooning is that it is a spontaneous process–that a cartoonist simply sits down with a blank piece of paper and an ink pen and starts drawing the final published piece. While it’s taken for granted that a prose writer goes through various planning stages and …
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