Jazz Friday today brings you some making-of goodness. Here’s a step-by-step gallery of page 7 from Gietz! 
Step 1: Every page I draw starts as a storyboard. This is usually really small and just serves the purpose of arranging the panels. Sometimes I redraw the storyboard a couple of times until I think it’s good enough to proceed with the rest. Sometimes I already try to work out some lighting, but usually I don’t . 
Step 2: pencils time! I used to draw these the analogue way with a real pencil, but now I moved on to the more practical Wacom tablet. Drawing it directly on the screen gives me more tools to move, copy-paste and correct stuff. 
Step 3: work out lighting. On complex pages I usually print out the pencils to try some lighting solutions before I do the final inking. It takes less time to do 4 of these than to do the inking twice. 
Step 4: ink the pencils. I usually turn the pencils to 100% cyan and print them on a suitable paper, then ink them with a Pentel Pocket Brush (I’ll do a tutorial about this soon!). Sooner or later I’ll find a lot mistakes and re-draw and re-ink parts of the page. That’s why some parts look pretty different than in the pencils. 
Step 5: scan, add a half-tone in Photoshop and do the lettering. For Gietz! I’ve decided to print with a brownish ink instead of the usual black, so the final result should look something like this.
Jazz Friday: from storyboard to page
January 22nd, 2010 § 1