by Adamant on Sat Jul 24, 2010 2:58 am
Hey Lukas. Thank you so much for the kind post. I really do appreciate it.
Yes that's right, I scanned my pencil work which was done on mid-tone grey paper stock with 3B pencil, white pencil, white gouache and black acrylic paint touch-ups and spattering.
While I have a massive love for traditional comic inking, I personally think that my comic style is better off not inked. As you've seen, I have a pretty loose style and inking never really works out too well over my line work.
I can't explain simply what I've done in the final product because firstly, there are far too many layers in my Photoshop scene to quantify what I have done but secondly, I've been searching for my "style" for over a decade, which, I'm only just discovering now and I'm really excited to see where my art style goes next.
The most basic way I will define it though is that I use my scanned work as a guide and I supply hue, value, and saturation, over and under that guiding layer. This is a bit vague I know but one thing that I find that works in any type of artwork whether it be film, comics, or games is layering subtlety over subtlety.
