This week's is a single panel update, which I apologize for, but it's been a hectic week, so I granted myself an easy one. But at the same time, the timing was right to dwell on a potentially tenuous situation for Swoop.
And as requested, here is a scan of just my inks, complete with pencils, mistakes and what-not, along with some tech info.
I work on 14x17 bristol paper. Sometimes vellum, sometimes smooth. I use a size 3 Winsor Newton Series 7 brush, which I sometimes think does the work for me. The pencil is a Col-Erase in some shade of blue. It's terribly difficult to erase and I have to spend some time erasing bits of it in Photoshop even when I scan with the threshold setting just right. I scan in four parts at 600dpi in bitmap. This makes it easier to select the black outlines to put on a separate layer when I want to turn them into different colors (by locking the transparency). I'm sure there's an easier way to do it, but I've gotten pretty quick with this method and it seems to preserve some of the occasional drybrushing I do without loss of texture.
And finally, here's some character concept work on Max Fluffage. You can see at one point I was toying with the idea of him being a bull. The manly yet dopey pig idea won out in the end. He's kind of a mix between Kronk from Emperor's New Groove and Mamma Aiuto Boss from Porco Rosso (brilliantly voiced by Brad Garrett).
Thanks for looking!
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Keep it up, man, it's awesome
Oh my gosh, the first late page. I wonder if something's up...