Month: May 2020

Tablet Tutorial

  • I switch easily between my phone and my tablet. Here i show how i do my thumb nails in my notes program on my Note 9.
    I switch easily between my phone and my tablet. Here i show how i do my thumb nails in my notes program on my Note 9.
  • The roughs. Super loose rough layout of the panles. Super fun.
  • Step 2 of the layers of detail on the pencils.
  • Rough, loose pencils. This is the first run at pencils overtop of the roughs layer.
  • Completed pencils over top of the roughs layer.
  • Detail showing pencils done on my tablet. Screen is 10.6 inches.
  • Pencil layer setup, shown over pencils.
  • Detail, showing inking linework, using the correction at 11, to give a smoother line stroke.
  • Detail of ink layer overtop of the pencils layer over top the roughs layer.
  • Completed black inks over blue line pencils on a separate layer. Note, the effect pencils that will be drawn over in color.
  • Flatting the colors on the fist ink layer. You’ll notice I always have a darker brown or gray layer beneath, to disallow white from peeking through.
  • Flat colors, including effects.
  • Color flats shown, along side the layers I created for backgrounds, effects, colors, inks and the like. More complicated pages have many, many layers.
  • Flatter colors shown with a 30% red overlay layer to give the scene a reddish creepy look.
  • Close up panel shading, done in black on a layer set at 25%. I also do a layer above, with white for highlights set at 35%.
  • Detail of the completed colors with shading and highlights.
  • Text is added, first. The program has a number of built in fonts. The desktop version of the program allows you to use your system fonts.
  • Drawing a circle around text, using the elipse tool.
  • Adding a text balloon tail myvdrawing freehand using correction set to 20, for maximum smoothing.
  • Use the fill tool and fill the balloon and tail with white.
    Use the fill tool and fill the balloon and tail with white.

For decades, I made comics in a very old school way. I penciled and inked on paper, scanned the pages and colored and lettered in InDesign. Mainly because I couldn’t afford a graphics tablet or a Surface Pro.

A couple of years ago, I found a free program called Medibang Paint that is really great for making comics. I had a Galaxy Note 8, now a Note 9 that comes with the best stylus in the business, built-in. I created many comics, using my phone alone, small screen and all.

Recently, I was able to upgrade and get myself a Galaxy Tab A 10.6 for about $350. This acts much like the phone, I’ve been using, with a much bigger screen. I am able to run the same program on a larger screen.

Medibang also allows you to share between devices, easily. So, I find myself using my phone for parts, swapping to my tablet and back again.

I have plotted out my progress shots of how I build a page, on two mobile devices. Cheap. Easy. Effective.

Never. Stop. Creating.

Thanks,
Barry

Not so Teen Wizard

Doing some standard fantasy drawing.

Process post

Here are the process steps I took to create the best explosion I’ve done, to date. It was a bit if a different process, drawing in many layers of color, but i think it’s effective.

Imperial Frogz Space Marines

These Space Marines were my first foray into Warhammer 40k, way back in 1992. I’d seen a local game store display the Sons of Elvis chapter, so I did a silly home brew chapter, too. The Imperial Frogz. And that’s a lot of green.

99% of my army is beakie marines, and gret deal of them are old school Rogue Trader minis, as well. I filled in the ranks with newer models as they came out.

I mean to update the pics, as I finish up the couple of straggler figs that still need painted.

I hadn’t dug these out in ages and I’d forgotten just how many I had. Yikes!

Edit: Added new pics after finishing painting all the models. All I have left to do is base 150 models. Yikes!