There. Finally Blogger managed to do it.
Cheerio.
perjantai 25. huhtikuuta 2008
Good news, bad news...
Right.
The bad news is that I've had ridiculously busy week at work, so I haven't been able to finish the next page.
The good news however is that I've finished inks on page 7 and 8 and page 9 is almost finished (both inks and colors... I did it actually before page one as a test, and it only needs small modifications)
I would post the inks on page 7 here, but for some reason the Blogger is unable to upload the picture. I'll try again bit later.
Cheerio.
PS. Went to local movie theater to see Porco Rosso, and liked it enormously.
The bad news is that I've had ridiculously busy week at work, so I haven't been able to finish the next page.
The good news however is that I've finished inks on page 7 and 8 and page 9 is almost finished (both inks and colors... I did it actually before page one as a test, and it only needs small modifications)
I would post the inks on page 7 here, but for some reason the Blogger is unable to upload the picture. I'll try again bit later.
Cheerio.
PS. Went to local movie theater to see Porco Rosso, and liked it enormously.
sunnuntai 20. huhtikuuta 2008
Page 6: baby steps
Ok. As promised, here's some stuff about how I do the pages... First of all I naturally cut the story into page-size chunks (before I did a single page I had divided the whole chapter one, and I think I will continue doing this one chapter at a time). At the same time I do small "matchbox-sketches" of the pages to get some rough idea about the size of panels and overall composition of a spread (yes, even though I post these one page at a time, I'm designing them as spreads)
Then I start pencilling single pages. First I do the panel outlines and then place the textboxes (or speech bubbles) at this point I write the text by hand to get an idea about the size of the box. Then I do pencils. After that, in order to save time, I do inks on top of the pencils. (normally I would scan the pencils and change the lines to light blue... well, light cyan to be more exact... print the colored pencils on a heavy stock paper and ink on that... that way if I make a mistake with ink I can just print another copy and start over without screwing up the pencils)... sorry about the crappy photos. I took them with my phone.
After finishing the inks I scan the page, clean up the pencils and add contrast (all this in photoshop). Then I open the page in Illustrator and "trace" it to vector-format. I paste the vectorized page into Indesign where I type the texts and copy/paste the texts and the vectors back into Photoshop where I then do the colors... err greys.
Right. Someone might think that it sounds awfully complicated and why am I vectorizing the page... Well, in short, look the results below. The first panel is just scanned lineart (without any modifications), the second panel is cleaned up lineart and the last is vectorized lineart. As you can see vectorizing cleans up the ragged ink lines and makes the picture smoother... and I like that.
There. That's the way I do it.
Cheerio.
Then I start pencilling single pages. First I do the panel outlines and then place the textboxes (or speech bubbles) at this point I write the text by hand to get an idea about the size of the box. Then I do pencils. After that, in order to save time, I do inks on top of the pencils. (normally I would scan the pencils and change the lines to light blue... well, light cyan to be more exact... print the colored pencils on a heavy stock paper and ink on that... that way if I make a mistake with ink I can just print another copy and start over without screwing up the pencils)... sorry about the crappy photos. I took them with my phone.
After finishing the inks I scan the page, clean up the pencils and add contrast (all this in photoshop). Then I open the page in Illustrator and "trace" it to vector-format. I paste the vectorized page into Indesign where I type the texts and copy/paste the texts and the vectors back into Photoshop where I then do the colors... err greys.
Right. Someone might think that it sounds awfully complicated and why am I vectorizing the page... Well, in short, look the results below. The first panel is just scanned lineart (without any modifications), the second panel is cleaned up lineart and the last is vectorized lineart. As you can see vectorizing cleans up the ragged ink lines and makes the picture smoother... and I like that.
There. That's the way I do it.
Cheerio.
perjantai 18. huhtikuuta 2008
Odd and the Frost Giants page 6 (chapter 1)
Right. I promised to Dan that I would say few words (and show some pictures) about the technique and the different steps from a sketch to a finished page... but when I managed to finish this page, I just wanted to post this as soon as possible. I'll show the steps in my next post. Promise.
Cheerio.
tiistai 15. huhtikuuta 2008
Odd and the Frost Giants page 5 (chapter 1)
...and I'm currently finishing the pencils for page 6.
Cheerio.
keskiviikko 9. huhtikuuta 2008
Odd fonts
I was asked about the lettering of Odd, and I think it's right and proper to tell this publicly....
From the beginning I wanted to have editable text so I can correct typos etc. more easily AND since I don't have Fontographer to create a font of my own (and my hand writing sucks pretty much anyhow) I took the easy way out and downloaded few free fonts from the net.
If you like fonts (like I do) you should REALLY visit...
http://www.dafont.com/
or
http://www.1001freefonts.com/
Cheerio.
Jouni
From the beginning I wanted to have editable text so I can correct typos etc. more easily AND since I don't have Fontographer to create a font of my own (and my hand writing sucks pretty much anyhow) I took the easy way out and downloaded few free fonts from the net.
If you like fonts (like I do) you should REALLY visit...
http://www.dafont.com/
or
http://www.1001freefonts.com/
Cheerio.
Jouni
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