Started off the month by messing around with this skull from May 2022 in clip studio.
Can’t remember who recommended the [AA] Gel Pen on twitter but I’m loving the line, reminds me of MUJI Gel Ink pens.
Some pencils and a bonus skull that didn’t make it onto last months page.
I’ve been slowly adding to this page in clip studio during breaks at work. Mostly drawn using the default g-pen with some texture/tone here and there.
A quick page for #BatmanDay sketched in Procreate. Someday I’ll draw a grumpy Jim Gordon fan comic and maybe include Bane and the Bat fella.
I left the iPad at home and took a wee sketchbook on holiday to fill a few pages. I’ve been wanting to get back to drawing on paper again and it felt pretty good to ditch the undo gesture for a bit.
Here’s the raw inks:
Picked up a new pen from empik and a copy of RELAX #38 from the airport. Really impressed with the production and large format of RELAX, astounding work from Jakub Rebelka, Philippe Cazaumayou, etc.
I coloured day 2 of PJ Holden’s brilliant holiday comics for the craic:
I flatted the page pretty quickly earlier in the week before adding rendering over the last few days at work. I had about 10 to 30 minutes during my breaks and lunches giving me approximately 10 minutes per panel.
Kinda like PJ’s genius pomodoro technique (which breaks single tasks into 25 minute chunks) 10 minutes is a pretty perfect time limitation to set for a single panel, really keeps you focused.
PJ has collected his holiday comics along with a bunch of other strips on gumroad (it’s pay what you like) and I really enjoyed it!
I’ve uploaded my flats here if you wanna colour the page too.
Declan Shalvey recently posted this panel from his creator owned comic Old Dog starting an inking challenge on twitter:
It’s been fascinating to watch the various approaches to this single panel and I couldn’t help but think of 99 ways to tell a story when I saw each new interpretation throughout the past week or so.
Anyway, it’s been getting a wee bit quiet here on the blog so thought I’d post up my attempt in pencils from a few nights ago.
Old Dog is out on Aug 31 Sept 28 and looks great so be sure to check out issue zero and subscribe to Dec’s newsletter.
Yikes, it’s the end of the month so I’m clearing out the auld iPad to free up some of those precious megabytes.
#AlienDay happened again, apparently its an annual thing.
Some more heads and a bat fella.
Just tweaking a thumbprint brush I created in CSP along with some other inking tests.
Liam Sharp recently posted this awesome tribute to Deaths Head II and 90s comics on his twitter:
I simply couldn’t resist colouring the first page and settled on a muted palette with an added paper texture overlay to give it that vintage 90s Marvel UK feel.
I’ve uploaded my flats here if you wanna give it a go.
Inspired by PJ Holden’s thumbprint brush for CSP I created a very simple spiral brush to play with some shading. Gotta say it’s a really nice effect that instantly improved the solid blacks on this.