3 posts tagged “cartoon”
Learning and experimenting with markers. I really should use more appropriate stock; tracing paper may be good for setting up the drawing, but it's not much use for colouring on! It's got no bleed/absorption, so the marker ink just sits on the surface. If I try to do any shading, it just creates a pool of ink - even if I wait for it to dry! I have a solution in mind though, and I shall reveal it later. It involves the misappropriation of employer supplies. XD
Okay, some test colours for the bad guy. This is my first time working with markers, so please forgive the fact that this isn't awesome!
I used Pantone markers for this, which are an alcohol-based professional quality set of markers, and they're quite expensive. Think AU$60 (roughly US$45) for a box of 6! We've got 5 boxes so far, heh.
Alas, I don't yet have as many colours as I'd like, and the guy's hair turned out a bit orange. He'll have darker brown hair in the comic, but maybe blonde. Not sure yet.
Anyway, I hope you dig it! The final colours in the actual cover will be much nicer, I hope. This is all practice. :)
And here we have the completed, coloured version. As you can
probably tell for yourself, I decided to completely redraw it using the
pen tool and the mouse in Illustrator CS2. Took bloody ages, but when
it's an important piece, you don't cut corners yo.
