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 [...]
Here are pages 52 and 53 of reMIND. Click to enlarge. Right-click to open full size in a new window. This was a fun spread not only to show off the crazy ideas in my head but also because it has a interesting composition. I really wanted to push the way the panels were laid [...]
Photoshop Speech Bubbles – How I make word balloons I already talked a bit about Fonts, Lettering and Creating Your Own Comic Font so now I’m going to try to walk through my process of making speech bubbles. I made a video. Not just any video. A video I made really late at night after drinking [...]
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 [...]
To start things off I want to apologize for using the Comic Sans font in my pages as seen above. I just learned a bunch of stuff lately about my lack of skill and understanding of lettering and now I'm kinda embarrassed with what I've posted. I will be updating the lettering fonts really soon [...]
