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 [...]
Nearly 6 months ago I started reMINDblog.com and I’ve seen many new comments and I want to welcome you all and thank you for partaking in this journey with me. In hitting the six month milestone, I’ll leave you with a list of my 10 favorite Thursday posts to date. My Top 10 Favorite reMINDblog [...]
The working difference with RGB vs CMYK modes in Photoshop. When I started working on my graphic novel called "reMIND", I read that printers needed CMYK files so I decided to create all my Photoshop pages in CMYK only. I worked in this mode for years thinking it was similar to RGB but just printer [...]
How I Ink my graphic novel. I’ve been told my Inks look great. Really? Because I don’t Ink anything. The End. Adjusting Levels in Photoshop. No, but really. I tried to Ink my comic pages back in the mid 90′s but whenever I’d go to a convention and show an editor my work they would [...]
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 [...]
