How I paint comics : The Techno-Templar #30
The detailled making of my watercolor sci-fi and surreal graphic-novel.
In the previous page, the combat between Devlok and the Techno-Templars inside the network has begun. That is when another Templar called Lenz, who stayed IRL with the "chief" and who has been doubtful about the operation for a while, decides to probe our protagonist's memory. Remember, he has been digitalized, ...
"Devlok, the Techno-Templar is a post-dystopian Graphic-Novel I started to auto-produce in the beginning of 2016 with a first book. The second came out in October 2017, closing the story. Several repress took place, coming to a total of 1250 copies in total, French and English issues confounded"
Let's see how the page was created. First, story-board, with thought bubbles, text and outlines.
Seems I don't have any pictures of the penciling, so here's straight the painting process.
So after that I painted the background with light textures and a gradient.
I do really love to make those lines by hand! And those pens are perfect for it.
Et voilà!
After that, a bit of cleaning and minor color enhancement, tought bubbles, text. I also added an extra black outline to the little panels.
I hope you enjoyed this post! If you want to read the previous pages, simply follow and scroll down my profile for "The Techno-Templar" posts.
Here are also video flick through of the books
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Great page! I made one that had a bit of the same idea:
Excellent! I love so much that epic mega-serious sculpturesque face down right!
Thanks :) I just ordered the two Devlok albums!
How awesome ;) Thanks! It'll go in the next days, monday or so ;)
Very good to see your workflow! The graphics are as usual, extremely interesting and excellent art!
Thanks a lot for the comment @fractalizer :)
Do you do your initial inking with India ink? Are you using a special ball-point pen? I didn't think that ink from most ball-point pens was waterproof.
I don't have much experience with water color painting. Do you paint a layer, let it dry, and then paint another layer to make a gradient?
Thank you for the comment and the questions @minnowforlife!
I use thinliners like those for clean outlines
And ballpoint pen like this for lines that need more variations, ink is more oily.
Both have waterproof ink but to be honnest I don't know what type of ink it is exactly.
You can find a bunch of watercolour tutorials on internet. For gradients for instance, you might do it with a first layer that you let dry then adding a succession of others. But that'll be more of a "fake" gradient, that'll still look nice, all depends the effect you look for. But the "real" technique for that is to lay the colour on one side, then another colour or clean water on the other side (without having them touching each other) and then blend them. You have to be pretty fast for that technique, you might even need one brush (one with each color) in each hand to do it before it's dry.
Thanks for the reply! It helps a lot. Talking with other creators is one thing that makes Steemit enjoyable.
Wow, your work is extremely detailed! I took an art for a couple of years, commercial art, when I was in high school. I've been away from it for a long time but I sure admire people like you who keep at it and Bravo on the books!
Thank you for the comment @wandrnrose7, I had a switch in my head, I just had to do it .)
Oh, I understand that switch! Well done, my friend!
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