Advice for beginner to CG illustration
Betty Cunningham
person pencilling, another inking, another coloring, and another
lettering.
If you want to do all those steps yourself you can combine the process
any way you want. Muth paints the whole book in watercolors and someone
else letteres it, for example.
If you want to emulate published comics, most professional artists
pencil on paper first, which is generally inked by hand on paper (the
linework is cleaner and not pixelated). Coloring is done nowadays after
teh inked image is scanned in and is a skill to learn all on it's own
(you will need to understand CMYK color printing techniques). Lettering
is usually done as a layer on top of the color and may be incorporated
or not depending on publisher.
E-comics means you only have to make sure whatever you do is legible and
easy to load on a browser online.
-Betty Cunningham
nim...@my-deja.com wrote:
>
> Hi folks
> I've been doing pencil / ink based line art AND fine-art oil-painting
> for a while now and have just started try my hand at creating artwork
> on my PC. I have a WACOM 6 x 8 and Photoshop 5.0 and access to
> Freehand / scanner at work.
>
> My objectives are to produce 'strip style' graphic comics and possibly
> some painterly illustration in my free time.
>
> Just as a beginner what do people find the best recipe for CREATING
> artwork. Some ppl say I should sketch direct in Freehand (which is not
> feeling intuitive atm), some say sketching in PS is fine if my image
> size is in line with print size, and just to work at higher scale
> (obviously in comics each frame is relatively small). Others say the
> only way is scanning in my sketch... and reading back through the posts
> here I saw someone recommending drawing direct into a 12 x 12 Wacom and
> then working traditionally with paint techniques.
>
> I am confused.
>
> What are the pro's cons of the different approaches to getting the
> artwork started. What do most of you guys do?
>
> - Shannon
>
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frazer irving
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I always start with regular drawing skills on paper...yum...and then add to
it on the computer. Although I don't use the paint programs to emulate
traditional media like oils, I do use them to put colour to my work, using
an A5 wacom tablet.
Hope that helps a bit. Keep it real.
Frazer
Avi Katz
> artwork started. What do most of you guys do?
>
>
Yes, we've been a few passes over this. Enfin you have to play around and
find the combination that works for you. I like to work from scratch on the
Wacom to learn better control over the stylus, but for practical purposes
when you're working to a deadline and need control and confidence I recomend
starting on paper--the stage Michelangelo would have called a
'cartoon'--scanning and continuing from there. For comics, an ink drawing is
easy to fill with flat color; a pencil or chalk drawing is a good start for
a more painterly development and applying what you know from oil painting.
But most important--don't be satisfied with Photoshop, which was created for
retouching, not for creating artwork. For that you want Metacreations
Painter, which can play at being all kinds of traditional media, pastels,
pencils, oils, watercolor, and any combination.
My website isn't very up-to-date but it will give you an idea of some of the
things you can do with a mixed technique.
Avi Katz
visit my gallery
http://www.avikatz.com
SoMK
> only way is scanning in my sketch... and reading back through the posts
> here I saw someone recommending drawing direct into a 12 x 12 Wacom and
> then working traditionally with paint techniques.
Don't be :)
It's just that you have to try and find your way... I started drawing on
paper and painting in watercolours and oils... Now, I have wacom 12x12 and
I still mostly draw on paper and scan the stuff but I admit I see myself
more and more often sketching directly on the wacom...
that will depend on how you feel, the work you have to do...
I'm not sure there is ONE way to work :)
Painter reacts better and quicker with tablets, it's true and offers lots
of options but if you grab the DeepPaint plugin for Photoshop, it will be
very interesting.
On my side, I'm photoshop only because, I know it for long.. but I often
sketch on paper or in painter..
Good luck and send links ! :)
SoMK - things to see on http://www.zaphodprod.com/peeps/picts