WIP Wednesday!
Added 2025-04-23 19:57:28 +0000 UTCAs I come back from vacation, I don't have a lot of stuff ready and queued up, so I am putting some comics together tonight (it is 9:50 pm in Kosovo as I do this now) and I don't have a full WIP product all the way to the end.
Still, I am maximizing my time by using a one-panel comic, and here it is, slowly coming together.
You may have noticed I am starting with a unusual all-blue "pencil" layer, and then applying digital inks over it. That is because there was no time to sketch out, on paper, an original layer, scan it in, and then do the regular process. I created this one entirely digitally.
I would, occasionally, experiment with all-digital art with no originals, and results were varied. My first attempts definitely provided "cleaner" images, with less artifacts to clean up that interfered with lines and color, but it was also hard for me to keep proportions and perspectives right (things I struggle with already). I would have to zoom in to get, say, a hand or face correct, only to zoom back out and realize I had drawn a hand or face that was massive or tiny compared to the rest of the drawing, and I then had to isolate it with the Lasso tool and resize it, which completely destroyed any advantages in time I had tried to create for myself.
I am getting better at using digital creativity flows, but overall I just prefer to start with a paper canvas and put everything down where I can easily see it all at once... then, knowing that I have everything measured out properly, zooming in and following the lines I created for adding detail.
This is as far as I got today. More to come! Have a good night!
