This is my first master study I chose to go with a comic from the 60s. The main purpose of this was to go through the motions of comic book inking, and one of my favorite eras was the 1960s with their rich usage of heavy usage of black. The original was Joe Sinnott’s inks over Jack Kirby’s pencils from the cover of Fantastic Four #46. I chose it for several reasons one was the usage of negative shapes the other was what the industry refers to as feathered lines but mostly I love the Silver Surfer and Galactus.
I didn’t try to conform exactly to the ink lines my goal was to develop a good sense of how to create the different line weights. I used a Raphael Kolinsky sable #2 brush to ink the image; a kolinsky sable has an extremely delicate feel to it, and can be used to get a wide variety of lines. I hope to do more of these and take what I learn and apply it to my comic book.
This looks really nice jeff. Did you do most of it by hand or by computer? And do you have any plans to color it in?
ReplyDeleteThanks Candice, I did it all by hand with ink and one of those expensive brushes. I don't think I'm going to color I have so much to do for this comic book I'm working on.
ReplyDeleteReal brushes are awesome. Of course if you were going to color, the computer is definitely the way to go. If you can work up a digital brush that you are happy with that would be great. There is also the possibility of doing it mostly by hand and just touch up or corrections in the digital copy.
ReplyDeleteI Guess I kind of lied in my last post, I do correct small errors on the computer somtimes its a lot easier then doing a traditional correction.
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