Another day, another website redesign…
Just so all ya’ll know, I figured out how to do some stuff with Wordpress. So, finally, I have blog AND website integration. Imagine the possibilites!
My friend and me are doing this month’s Project Rooftop ‘challenge’, and it is apparently Wolverine. I like the idea of redesigning character costumes, but my problem is that I know nothing about any superhero/mutant/etc characters at all. I never really was into comics as a kid, and I don’t know anything about the X-men except whatever is in ‘Marvel 1602′ or the first ‘House of M’ trade (which are all alternate universes anyway).
Wolverine looks like a pretty cool dude, so I made him a time-travelling inter-dimensional demon hunter. He’s got a Regency England/steampunk thing going on, mainly because I am in the middle of watching ‘Lost in Austen’. Regency England-style breeches, waistcoats, and cravats might be the hottest things ever.
I also going to show you some of process now, in case you are interested in seeing how I work. I am probably going to do that workspace meme soon, too.
I usually start out doing a sketch on a piece of scrap paper while I am doodling out ideas.
CLICK HERE TO SEE MY ‘SCRAPPY’ SKETCH
I keep the doodle above the paper I am drawing on, so I never trace my sketch but kind of use it as a gestural reference. I almost always draw on Strathmore Smooth (windpower) Bristol. I am under the impression that the windopower stuff is waaaay smoother, but I could also be crazy.
CLICK HERE TO SEE MY PENCILING
Then I ink my pencils, and maybe add some more stuff with the ink I hadn’t thought of during the penciling.
And then I color it in the computer with my Wacom tablet in Photoshop/Flash, and then it’s done! This is basically the same process I use all my illustrations. I will post my process for a comic page next week at some point, since I always find it interesting to see people’s process and I suppose someone might find it interesting to see mine. It looks pretty much like this.
