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How I make a Page
🕑 Added 2020-10-19 17:34:35 +0000 UTCThe last page took me a lot to do, so I thought to write down, for those interested, what's the process I've tested in these months to get the most appreciable result in the lowest amount of time.
It's more a quantity than a quality-based process, that might be useful for those interested more in comics than pretty illustrations, but that doesn't mean that I don't take my time to put everything in the right places.
Also because if there's one thing that I learned in those years, is that doing things in a rush never pays off.
I'd say that for me the most tedious step is applying the shadows.
Indeed I borrowed a technique from animation and I draw the border of the shadows like they were lineart, and then fill them with the same colorize mask that I use to quickly color the page. This last tool it's maybe the most useful part of my drawing app, Krita, and I highly recommend it.
While the part I enjoy the most are sketch and lineart. There's that meme roaming around about artists hating do the lineart, and I personally avoided the lineart boredom by making rougher sketches and letting more creative work in the lineart phase.
Maybe some of you noticed that a few months ago I used a much thicker brush for external contours, but I kind of grew tired of that. Physically tired, because it was much harder to control, and at the end of the session my hand ached. Plus, it made my subjects look too flat, like they were cardboard cutouts against the background.
My method will hopefully evolve again, but right now I'm in a satisfying compromise and when I look at my finished works I say way less often "This is shit, let's upload it and never look at it again."
It's more a quantity than a quality-based process, that might be useful for those interested more in comics than pretty illustrations, but that doesn't mean that I don't take my time to put everything in the right places.
Also because if there's one thing that I learned in those years, is that doing things in a rush never pays off.
I'd say that for me the most tedious step is applying the shadows.
Indeed I borrowed a technique from animation and I draw the border of the shadows like they were lineart, and then fill them with the same colorize mask that I use to quickly color the page. This last tool it's maybe the most useful part of my drawing app, Krita, and I highly recommend it.
While the part I enjoy the most are sketch and lineart. There's that meme roaming around about artists hating do the lineart, and I personally avoided the lineart boredom by making rougher sketches and letting more creative work in the lineart phase.
Maybe some of you noticed that a few months ago I used a much thicker brush for external contours, but I kind of grew tired of that. Physically tired, because it was much harder to control, and at the end of the session my hand ached. Plus, it made my subjects look too flat, like they were cardboard cutouts against the background.
My method will hopefully evolve again, but right now I'm in a satisfying compromise and when I look at my finished works I say way less often "This is shit, let's upload it and never look at it again."
