Wednesday 27 August 2008

work in progress


On the last post I showed some sketches of the western I'm working on for Accentuk, well here are the sketches laid down on page one ready to be inked, just to show how it all comes together.
I used to ink with pens and brushes, but was always too nervous about making a mistake. You can use white opaque but it was always too messy and with me there was always too much on the page.
So that's when I decided to ink on the computer.
Thank goodness for the delete button. No more mess. great!
At the moment I'm inking in illustrator, but I'm learning to use painter, and with the free rotate tool it's almost like inking in real paper.
It'll never replace the feeling I got when I was holding a finished piece of artwork, but I'm a lot less stressed on the finished look.

1 comment:

shane oakley said...

super suff, gary! obviously you're overdosing on sergio leone, but that, never hurt no one.
like see you show this page in stages;fully pencilled, semi-inked and then complete with all y nifty greys put down.

more!!