Part one of a series of videos showing the process of drawing Exchanges: Page 16 from the webcomic Skin Deep.
Part Two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiSTGam-EWM
Part Three: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNhw8NkkTMA
Skin Deep: http://www.skindepcomic.com
The finished page can be found here: http://www.webcomicsnation.com/korybing/skindeep/series.php?view=single&I...
This is Part One: Layout, Sketching, and Wording!
I start out with a composition notebook full of script and thumbnails. The script was written ages ago and is 100% complete by the time I start a story so I don't run the risk of writing myself into a hole. After the story is done I thumbnail out the pages, usually a chapter at a time, so I can see the approximate size of the story and how it flows. I might change my mind at the last minute and do something different when the time comes, though. This page, for example, was condensed from two pages because I thought the pacing was too slow.
Most of this video shows my cintiq screen, and the other screen is full of reference photos, past pages, and character sheets that I look at while I draw to make sure everything is staying the way I want it. I switch to the main computer screen when I put the words on the page in Illustrator (the only step of the process that I don't do in Photoshop).
Feel free to ask questions!
Original footage is approximately 2 1/2 hours long.
Equipment Used:
15" Macbook Pro
Wacom Cintiq 12wx
Photoshop and Illustrator CS4
Songs Used:
C'est Ce La - DeVotchKa
Lullagoodbyes - The Parish Festival
A-Punk - Vampire Weekend
Fairy Tale - Cloud Cult
I Am the Alphabet - Black Moth Super Rainbow
Wish I could draw like that; Or at all. Huge fan of skin deep though and btw, what's the music playing at the start of the video?
lilbuddha124 1 month ago
How does one do those boxes and text bubbles 4 the comics? I've been trying and I can't seem to figure it out. T~T
streeker007 2 years ago
someday I want to do something like this. If I can ever get my comic put together! this was awesome to watch!
tinuviel23 2 years ago
wow i love this and am jelous at how easy you find posing and sketching straight into the computer ^^
I also love Skin Deep btw
Fattyrat 2 years ago
Wonderful!
LazureusFalcone 2 years ago
Wow. Fascinating and educational. Thanks so much.
shadefell 2 years ago
nice
LaurieA11 2 years ago