Price Process Part 1

Today's post... more stuff from the archives. This would be from September. I was really churning pages out at this point with a deadline hanging over my head.

I consider these my thumbnails since they're pretty small (3" x 4" or so) and are rough. They also speed up my production since a lot of the page is realized in this step. As you can see the final pages look nearly like these small drawings. There was a step between these and the final pencils that I'll show you guys tomorrow.

Thumbnails drawn on a self made photoshop template that I print out at various sizes (Here I printed it 4 to a page.)  So sad to have recently lost that template in a computer crash, but really it only took maybe 20 minutes to make. That reminds me, I have to remake this template this week.

 I ended up getting stuck on page 4 for a while, which resulted in a few versions, one that was even nearly fully inked, I finally almost cracked it with the thumbnail below. The page was difficult for me since it called for 7 panels all with a bunch of important information needing to be communicated.

On the other hand the layouts for pages 5, 6, and 7 were the easiest of the bunch. I had already pictured these pages pretty clearly from the initial read through of the script. 

EDIT: Just noticed that that's my first thumbnail for page 7. By the looks of the final page, you can tell I didn't go with it.

Stuff

I'm hopefully going to be updating this art blog at least every other day. Possibly everyday if I can. So in order to catch up with yesterday, and a few in-between days for the previous posts, here's a bunch of new stuff.

To start us of. A Punisher Noir Sketch. About an hours worth of work. Hard to say, because I penciled it earlier last night while watching tv, then inked it at about 2 in the morning, but it didn't take very long overall.

With the wonders of photoshop. Here's a quick colour version of the sketch. Took more time deciding if I wanted a sepia tone look (since it's old school) or just a subdued blue. Went with the blue in the end.

A page of pencil sketches for warm-up.

A sharpie version of the pencil panel I posted last night. This is part of my "process", if I can call barely churning out pages a process. Well it's something I'm trying. So for now, just so you know my process looks something like this.

• Thumbnails for overall composition and shot selection.
• Final Print size pencil rough. So this fits on a sheet of 8.5 x 11" paper. Keeps me from going to detail heavy and allows me to work out perspective at a smaller scale.
• Scan that, blow it up to 10x15" and print it. Using printer paper again, I light box on top of the blown up pencil rough with a regular old sharpie. Again, limiting me to only the essential details.
• Final step is to light box those sharpie roughs onto clean new bristol. This step is just super easy if I've done the proper work before hand.

We'll see if this process works. Here's the sharpie rough.

And some colour fun over that rough.