Comic Portrait

It took a long time to complete this, I did a number of attempts to ink the pencils and they were just not good at all, I thought about giving up but then today I went at it and finished the thing in about an hour.

Another aged comic panel

Did another one of these female comic images, I tend to draw men so I need to practice more on girls.

I also discovered I can use GIMP to do my dot tone color effect, so that gets Photoshop out of the process.

Two pages of my fake comic completed.

Here are the two pages displayed side by side.  Happy enough with the result but I have a long way to go, still has an over worked feel, mainly because it was.

My approach to inking

I'm still figuring out how to do this, but it seems I do a first pass ink with a thinner brush, then another pass with the thicker brush to add emphasis or weight, then I do a spotting pass, where I try to add shade and shadow.

Comic Page 2 Pencils

I have a week off work, so I'll probably self isolate because of the Covid 19 virus, there's not much to do anyway because of the general lock-down. Here are the pencils for the next page of my fake comic test.

Full comic page - New color

I changed the color just for the hell of it.

Bottom Panel Pencils

I'm about to commence inking, so I will post the under drawing for posterity, as I tend to delete them once the inks are done.

This whole thing is about testing Krita for making comics, I will say it's text tool isn't optimal, this font won't allow me to make it bold, even if it shows those changes in the text pop-up, they don't translate through to the final result.

Adding more panels to the page - Progression

Yeah, gonna make this a full page, so this will be the top third.

Second Attempt - progression

Another pass on the comic panel, needed to loosen up my style. A journey towards Hackdom.

Comic art in Krita

Trying to find my feet doing comic style work with Krita. Doing a full blown comic is something I may do, so I tested the waters a bit with an imaginary panel. I don't have the fluid style yet, it took a long time to do this one image and there's so much I don't like about it, perhaps I just hate his face.

Creating characters with Krita's mirror tool.

Today I experimented with the mirror function of Krita, particularly useful when symmetry is needed, like with a face. So I was making heads basically, obviously at some point you switch off the mirror tool and continue, because heads aren't perfectly symmetrical in real life.

Dog illustration re-worked

Re-positioned and re-proportioned the elements for better story telling.

Dog image finished (took a while)

I'm done with it.

I think he needs to be higher from the water on a bigger bridge, to emphasize the drop. If I re-do it that would be why.

New Illustration Work-Flow

Just a quick glimpse into starting a project in Krita.

I import a scan of the concept sketch and size it up on the page, then I choose a color palette and make decisions about where to apply it.

I also check to see how it works without the line work, because I may want to go in that direction.

At this stage I'm just making decisions, I haven't yet started doing the actual illustration.

Gryphon finished

I put some textures into the final piece and will call it done for the time being.

Gryphon - work in progress - laying down the vectors

Gryphon - work in progress, continued...

I've decided to keep this in the same color palette as the Wolf Mother image.

Gryphon - work in progress

Need to pump something else out during the Christmas break. Put sketch into Krita and get to work.

Wolf Mother print final (I think)

I feel this is complete now.

Wolf Mother. Work in progress with Krita

I tried to get some art done over the weekend. I picked the Romulus and Remus theme for no particular reason apart from it popping into my head and any subject would do, besides, it's iconic.

So far I've dropped pencil sketches into Krita and moved things around to get a composition, and figured out my color palette (keeping it simple).

I'd like to formalize the negative space between the babies and the teats, as there is almost a pattern forming there.

Also, I was screwing around, playing with bezier selection masks and created this rough head, I almost dumped the file but decided to save it, and the next day opened it up, deciding to take it further I ended up with this image of a boy walking a dog (with the dog doing all the walking). It's one of those aimless illustrations that has no real reason to be, but I like the dog leash, being the last detail added.

The right caption in the thought balloon would help bring it together.