Part 5 – Applying Textures Before we jump head first into this tutorial I suggest skimming Part 2 – How I use Flats, because this goes hand in hand with it. Also some of the things I do require Photoshop CS2 or greater (I think). Okay, so lets look at where we left off. We [...]
Part 4 – Creating Your Own Texture Library Here’s what I suggest doing if you want to make your own sweet, coveted textures to use in Photoshop. First, find the ideal style you are trying to achieve like we talked about in the last section. I suggest looking outside of comics, otherwise you will just [...]
Part 3 – Art Directing your Graphic Novel For those of you who just want a bunch of quick links to get free textures, here are a few I’ve used before. CGTextures.com mayang.com/textures bittbox.com But for those of you who want your project to be truly you own, it’s not as hard as it seems [...]
Part 2 – How I use flats When I first started making comics I was clueless about the coloring process. I would paint under my line art that was set to multiply but that was the extent of my knowledge. It always seemed like such mindless work to paint between the lines, to fill in the [...]
Part 1 – Multiply and Flatting First of all, I highly recommend using Adobe Photoshop in which all the steps below are achieved. It’s an industry standard and will also come in handy for everything else creative you choose to do. I know it’s expensive but it’s worth every penny. If you are new to [...]
To my relief, we are finally at the end of our flashback. Talk about a burden off my shoulders. You see, now that it’s out there for everyone to see, I can’t trick myself into rethinking it anymore than I should. When I write stories, (not saying I’m a writer or anything) I always get [...]
“Now there’s Lizard Men and a talking dog? Why did I start reading this comic?” I know that’s what you’re thinking. I apologize for the lack of actual panels in these pages. Keep in mind, this graphic novel was intended to be printed as a hardcover book and this was just supposed to be one [...]
Here is spread 11 of reMIND. Click to enlarge. This spread was a fun test. A test to see if I could push your eyes back and forth between the same frames. Feel free to throw out any ideas to make this work better if you think it's broken. There are just so many rules that people [...]
Click image to enlarge. I have to say that this is almost my favorite finished spread. I just love how the lighting turned out with the warm sun blasting everything in the bedroom and kitchen. This was also around the time I started running out of large Bristol board sheets in which to put a [...]
An interview with Ian Hannin, a professional comic colorist with many high profile titles under his belt including: Batman Superman Spider-Man X-Men Spawn! JASON BRUBAKER – Hey Ian. Thanks for taking the time for this interview. To start things out, How did you become a comic colorist? IAN HANNIN – No problem, Jason. I'm a [...]
Outsourcing Comics To start this off, I'd like to say that I'm not trying to promote outsourcing. I'm sure someone will read this and be upset with me for showing a clear cut way to outsource your comic pages causing the American economy to collapse…again. All I'm trying to do here is get my stupid [...]
Flatting? What’s that? For about 3 years now, I’ve been slaving away at my coloring process about as slow as possible. I would spend hours and hours filling between the lines all while throwing textures over everything to see how it might look. I would work on a page for half a day and then [...]
I hope you enjoy this spread because I thought about it way to much. For a simple comic-page layout, I must have sketched 20 versions before finally satisfied. I had the idea of splitting the cats head into different panels early on and it opened a giant can of worms. You might also notice [...]
