Comic Tutorial #2
November 18th, 2009
Today, I’m going to describe how I create some of the graphics in Terence N. Tijuana.
If you haven’t already noticed, I’ll point out that this comic incorporates ‘traditional’ hand-drawn stuff with ‘Photoshop-tomfoolery’.
The hand-drawn stuff are essentially images that I sketch out on paper, scan into my PC and ink over using my Intuos3 tablet. The other, non-hand-drawn images are created in Photoshop using a mouse and lots of mind-boggling patience and a million ‘Undo’ clicks.
This tutorial will cover the second type of art, and another tutorial which I’ll publish in a few days will describe the traditional approach.
We will be looking at how I created the spaceport in this comic.
Needless to say, we start by loading Photoshop:
Jesus Christ, man! You continue to amaze! I’m fairly certain I couldn’t keep track of all those shapes to build an image!
You won’t know until you try, Dave!
What, ONLY 187 layers?!
I’ll try harder next time!
Awesome stuff! You’re much more patient than I am when making art.
‘Patience’? ‘Obsessed’ is a better term D!
Dude, I’m fairly certain that I can’t even count up to 187!
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Wow, I’m impressed.
You realize that 187 is the police code for homicide. (All that rap music I listened to as a youth is finally paying off!)
Jiminy Crickets! That’s more layers than an onion and a brick combined!
It’s just unbelievable. I love it… And tho think that sometimes I feel I’m pushing it when I have 12 layers…