Feb 12 2011
I was talking recently on Twitter about how much I love the convenience of custom Photoshop actions for performing routine tasks and I had a request to do a quick blog post about how I use Photoshop actions to get my pages set up for coloring. In reading about how various cartoonists color their work, …
Jan 08 2011
First, a disclaimer: This is going to be a rambling post with no real “thesis” or conclusion–just some random semi-related thoughts. That said, read on at your own risk… Not too long ago, floating all about the internets were a lot of links to cartoonist John Martz’s fantastic pixel art of Star Trek characters. What’s …
Jan 21 2010
I’ve added one further event to my already busy Amelia weekend extravaganza. Before hitting Chapel Hill Books for a signing there on Sunday the 21st of February, I’ll be appearing in White River Junction, Vermont at the Center for Cartoon Studies, along with Amelia Earhart – This Broad Ocean‘s writer, Sarah Stewart Taylor, for a …
Nov 18 2009
My next step, once I’ve got reasonably solid thumbnails (as seen last post) is to scan those thumbnails and pull out all the colored planning drawing, leaving just the final pencil lines. This can be done easily in Photoshop by going into image –> adjustments –> hue/saturation and then, in turn, selecting “reds,” “cyans” and …
Nov 17 2009
Just for fun, I thought I’d drum up maybe five pages or so of my imagined graphic novel adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo. This obviously isn’t a “front burner” project for me at the moment, but I’ll post progress on these pages as I work on them with an eye toward discussing process. …
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