Comic Book Inking Tips-Making Kirby Krackle

A new video series by Comic Book artist Karl Altstaetter (Artist Deity, Bloodstrike, Q-Unit) In the fifth episode Karl shows his thought process behind creating Jack Kirby's infamous Kirby Krackle!


Thank for checking out my latest video. I'm a huge fan of Jack Kirby. Kirby's iconic energy has become a mainstay in comics and I wanted to give my thought process on how it works. There are lots of different ways to do it this is just my personal favorite. I hope you enjoyed the video. Feel free to leave comments or suggestions.

-Karl

As always you can find more of my art here: http://komickarl.deviantart.com/
and here are some examples of places I've used Kirby Krackle in my own work.
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http://fav.me/d2mipss
http://fav.me/d2okfzj

Category:

Howto & Style

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• Karl Altstaetter
• Jack Kirby
• Comic Books
• Graphic Novels
• How to
• Inking
• art
• entertainment

[Cthulhuized]

HAHA you use a white out pen?! that's awesome! XD always snobed them!

[KomicKarl]

@Cthulhuized Yep. Pretty much all the major Inkers of this era do. It creates awesome effects. I use Pro White for corrections and brush work but for creating textures and rough random lines the white out pen is great.

[TheEye22]

Kirby actually used a circle template and went crazy hog wild on a page. I saw a Silver Surfer page that was obviously templated. Wild

[KomicKarl]

@TheEye22 That is very interesting. That's why he is the king he put the work in to make it perfect.

[abmangaka]

That's really clever! I do kinda want Kirby Krackle to be a snack of some kind :P

[KomicKarl]

@abmangaka Rice Krispies really needs to work out a deal with the Kirby estate and make some sort of treat out of it. Imagine how many they would sell at comic shows.

[gobSIDES]

@hyperchimp456 That sucks to have an art teacher who has a tunneled vision of art. Both my teachers were always supportive of the styles I liked.

[ElegeantFencer]

@hyperchimp456 hell yes he's wrong.

[hyperchimp456]

yeah my art teacher said comic art is just doodling of course this ignorant ponce is wrong right?

[TheEye22]

@KomicKarl FW Artist Acrylic white-out ink, Oentel Presto white ink pen and Pen-touch white ink pens do NOT work. Marvel artists used to use something called SNO-PAKE. That is no longer available. When do you buy Pro White? Thanks for all you info!

[TheEye22]

@KomicKarl ALL HAIL THE KING!!!