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Creating Comics Panel by Panel Freaks & Gods Page 7 by Chris Dreier
Creating Comics Panel by Panel Freaks & Gods Page 7 by Chris DreierPART 01 Here is page 7 Giuseppe (D'Elia) sent me. I like the attack in top panel and the bottom is really nice too. The round panel with a close-up of Atoman’s eye is very much like page 3 where...
Creating Comics Panel by Panel Freaks & Gods Page 6 by Chris Dreier
Page 6 is a splash page revealing a giant robot. The first thing I did was put some perspective rulers in so I could ink the background buildings. This first image shows the rulers’ placement. The horizontal line is the horizon line and the other two sets the vanishing points. As you can see the points are far off the page…that’s why I have the image so zoomed out.
Creating Comics Panel by Panel Freaks & Gods Page 5 by Chris Dreier
Now we’re on page 5 of the Tales of the Dark Tunnel Exclusive comic. We start with the pencils where a tank is transforming into a giant robot (because they do that). I liked this in-between look. So I used the “polygon selection” tool and selected all the black areas and filled it black. I used a tone to add shape and shading and simple line work. Overall, it turned out nice; it has a feeling of movement which is what I wanted to convey.
Creating Comics Panel by Panel Freaks & Gods Page 4 by Chris Dreier
Flame Girl blasting the Octopus with everything she has! Her hands and flames were inked on a separate layer so I can change its color during the flatting stage.
You can see that Giuseppe (penciler) drew the lines in her hands going down to the center of her palms. I placed a”radial line” ruler off to the right so every feathered line would point in that direction. Ya know… a blast. Also, keeping in mind the single light source. Which Giuseppe did a great job in the pencils.
Creating Comics Panel by Panel Freaks & Gods Page 3 by Chris Dreier
Creating Comics Panel by Panel: Freaks & Gods Page 3 by Chris Dreier
What’s the purpose for feathering? Primarily it’s there to soften black areas or show shape or form all from a light source.
Creating Comics Panel by Panel Freaks & Gods Page 2 by Chris Dreier
Creating Comics Panel by Panel Freaks & Gods Page 2 by Chris DreierI’m working on page two of an Exclusive comic book called “Tales of the Dark Tunnel: Magno, Flame Girl, Atoman”. If you’re wondering what happened to page one, well, I was super excited when the...
Freaks & Gods Cover Inks
DIGITAL INKSFREAKS & GODS #7 COVER INKS by Chris Dreier PART 1 We going to start inking the cover to issue 7 of Freaks & Gods. The cover marked “B” is how I received it from the series penciler Giuseppe. I liked it but I needed it to be a bit more dramatic. I...
Clip Studio Paint Basic Setup
CLIP STUDIO PAINT BASICS I work in Clip Studio Paint and love it. So, if you have that program or are thinking of getting it, this “Basics” section is for you. Or maybe you’re a fan of art and the process so you will find this interesting as well. This is a brief...
Digital Inks-Manga Studio EX5 Sample Inks
A time-lapse inking of...