Tag: Clip Studio Paint

Colour it in

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.

What’s updog?

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.

May 2022

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.

Thumbs up

Just tweaking a thumbprint brush I created in CSP along with some other inking tests.

This is a tribute!

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.

Alas, poor Yorick!

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.

Corona colour

Just a wee colouring practice page cobbled together from old head sketches in CSP. I inked and coloured the heads individually spending about 20 to 40 mins on each until I filled the page.

Rusty cage

A wee 2021 sketchdump… sadly, not much time for drawing this year.

Quite a few months between these but I had fun with the Audrey II sketches… Feeeeeed me Seymour!!!

Been feeling a little aimless with my inking this last year, a little bored with the lines I’m putting down. This page was an attempt to concentrate on pencilling again, to shake the rust off.

We’re jammin’

The latest Colorist Jam is Captain America by Brent Schoonover.

I really enjoyed colouring PJ Holden’s work last month and I’ve been looking for similar sketches to practice on. Colorist Jam is always popping up in my timeline so thought I’d give this month’s Cap a go. Spent about 30 mins on it altogether (including flatting for Clip Studio) using a conventional palette with a texture overlay.

Is it Alien day yet?

PJ Holden posted an awesome Alien on Friday and kindly offered up the inks for colouring.

Would’ve been just swell if he also offered up the flats too (just kidding PJ). I really enjoyed this, it’s prob the first time I’ve tried colouring someone else’s work and I spent just under 30 mins on it altogether. I produced the flats in CSP using the workflow from PJ’s Imagine FX tutorial and briefly considered exporting the file for use in Procreate to just go crazy with texture and brushes. I quickly changed my mind though and imported an overlay texture layer after I worked out my palette and added shading, etc.