tutorial

I'm going to do the first part of a in progress tutorial on comics pages.

The project I'm working on now with hommie Zack Newell (I hope he doesn't mind me posting this) has a script written by the aforementioned. He sends me a script with the words and descriptions of each panel. I've been receiving them one page at a time. I whip out a 8.5X11 thumbnail.
Then I bust out a big sheet (18X24 I'm not messy around). I draw using a mechanical pencil (it saves time-no sharpening) and a gum eraser. I didn't take a picture of my pencils, but its all done loose with lots of perspective and simple outline info.

Then I ink it with sharpies from ultra fine to super huge and inkwash, now I use black india ink, white and brick red. It looks like this:

Pretty cool but still kinda goofy looking, right?

Tune in next week to see scanned magic and the final blacks for this page.

Reflection

I've been thinking of the meaning of school lately. Why do you do it?

Do you do it for a degree, a piece of paper called a diploma, grades that say you're wonderful and everyone loves you, do you do it for fringe benefits, parties, a rock star college lifestyle, or do you do it for another reason?

Honestly I think of education as a tremendous opportunity and students need to take the knowledge and skills they can from their classes regardless of other concerns or peripheral interests.

Case in point, it matters more what you personally take away from a class, then say teachers perception of your achievements. At some point the academic game matters less then personal growth.

My old buddy Darkblood: [link] wanted me to color his lineart, which was a Micheal Turner Batman sendup. Naturally I couldn't resists. Turner was a great artist, may he R.I.P.

As for Darkblood, he's one of the realist comic/rappers I know. And I know allot of comic/rappers (LOL). But really, back in the day I colored his Soul Survivor Comic and it was a great collab.

Blood, we should work together again. Your lines+my colors=awesomeness.

So I colored this, drank some Brandy and even bumped some old Darkblood tunes (the general is back y'all).