sketches, promos, Short stories and more from the world of forever winter.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Monday, October 25, 2010
Kry sketch night
finished this during a weekly chat I have with some of my former Classmates at the kubert school. We all talk over the magic of the internets and try and get some work done.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
cover stage 5
added in some more tones with a charcoal pencil. Then the fun part going in and adding in all the snow. This entire thing was inked with a brush, with charcoal pencil for the tones and a toothbrush for the snow effect. The next step is I give the file to a talented friend and let them color it.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Monday, October 4, 2010
Cover stage 3
ok so been a couple hours working on this thing. since I ink myself I leave things a little more loose then I would normally, the snow and stuff would really drive me crazy to pencil really tight before inking it. After seeing the black bars in photoshop I actually went a head and put them on the board as well, Not needed but I like to see the original be as close to the finished piece as possible.
I use the strathmore sequential art pages. Bristol Smooth. this is the 200 series which features the blue lines, I use these for pinups and covers. I prefer to rule up my own when I do actually pages so I switch to the 300 series which has no blue lines.
other tools I used on this piece.
Pentel 0.5 Mechanical pencil or alvin draftline .5 mechanical pencil- Both are pretty much exactly the same, the draftline I get at an art store near my house. The Pentel I pick up every-time I go into the city at dick blick near fenway. I rock it cause its green. no really. Both are my main weapon of choice. I like 0.5 the best, 0.7 I smear around like a mad man and it makes a real mess. 0.3 pencils are super expensive and the lead breaks so easy and it seems to jam constantly.
Staedler HB pencil- I use this to rough in shadows or fill in black spots. Really good for roughing in all the snow really fast.
ruler- all my perspective stuff I use a ruler in the penciling phase, even though I ink all of it free hand (but I'll talk more about that next time)
circle templates- They have nice rounded edges so I used them to round of the edges of the signs. I seem to lose circle templates more then anything else.
Kneaded eraser- actually scratch that, erasers might be the thing I lose the most, as you can tell by the tiny piece of kneaded eraser I was using. I also love the erasers on the drafting pencils but once you wear them down and have to move them up to keep using them it seems like they always end up falling out and disappearing.
sea lion? probably best to just avoid that.
next onto inking. see you then.
-Joel
I use the strathmore sequential art pages. Bristol Smooth. this is the 200 series which features the blue lines, I use these for pinups and covers. I prefer to rule up my own when I do actually pages so I switch to the 300 series which has no blue lines.
other tools I used on this piece.
Pentel 0.5 Mechanical pencil or alvin draftline .5 mechanical pencil- Both are pretty much exactly the same, the draftline I get at an art store near my house. The Pentel I pick up every-time I go into the city at dick blick near fenway. I rock it cause its green. no really. Both are my main weapon of choice. I like 0.5 the best, 0.7 I smear around like a mad man and it makes a real mess. 0.3 pencils are super expensive and the lead breaks so easy and it seems to jam constantly.
Staedler HB pencil- I use this to rough in shadows or fill in black spots. Really good for roughing in all the snow really fast.
ruler- all my perspective stuff I use a ruler in the penciling phase, even though I ink all of it free hand (but I'll talk more about that next time)
circle templates- They have nice rounded edges so I used them to round of the edges of the signs. I seem to lose circle templates more then anything else.
Kneaded eraser- actually scratch that, erasers might be the thing I lose the most, as you can tell by the tiny piece of kneaded eraser I was using. I also love the erasers on the drafting pencils but once you wear them down and have to move them up to keep using them it seems like they always end up falling out and disappearing.
sea lion? probably best to just avoid that.
next onto inking. see you then.
-Joel
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Cover stage 2
I went back to the drawing board a little bit on the background for this piece. I didn't think I captured The heading into Boston vibe in the first highway backdrop. Bean town has some really crazy highways as you head in to different parts of the city. A lot of big looping around over passes dipping down and going into underground tunnels. tightened up the main figure a little bit, but went back and erased his legs (they seemed really long)
the black bars along the top and bottom might stay I like the widescreen effect it gives and will leave me space for the logo and all that fun stuff.
more to come on this stay tuned.
the black bars along the top and bottom might stay I like the widescreen effect it gives and will leave me space for the logo and all that fun stuff.
more to come on this stay tuned.
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