Page 48 Flatted

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Today I re-drew some funkily-drawn hands and then re-inked the entire page. I did the inking in Clip Studio Paint using a simple opaque round brush, then did the painting in Photoshop. Photoshop is my go-to painting application - PS seems to take advantage of my Cintiq’s pressure sensitivity better than CSP. When I make that kind of statement I always keep in mind that I may be doing something wrong. In this case, I may not have my tablet sensitivity configured correctly for CSP.

Page 45, Betty and Tuca Seeing the Demon in its Lair, Inked and Flatted

Here’s page 45 inked and flatted. I imagined that I would somehow create a detailed, semi-realistic painting, but, with time restraints, I went straight to drawing the least detail possible to get an acceptable picture completed . I’m okay with a simple, flat look. I’ll add some shadows tomorrow.

Page 33, Betty Burro Makes It To The Top

I got quite a bit done today. Here’s my work flow for this day.

• Scan my original sketch and import it into Clip Studio Paint.

• Redraw everything several times until I get the composition I like.

• Think about how to draw rocks and burro ears. Burro ears can go wrong and end up looking like rabbit ears. I’m still working on getting them right.

• Ink the sketch. Clip Studio Paint has great inking tools, including vector tools that are convenient for inking and modifying line width.

• Create two flats layers, one for the background and one for the characters.

• Apply the characters’ colors and some of the background colors.

• Create a layer for shadows. This layer is set to multiply. I used a blueish gray for all of the shadows. For the highlights on the stones I used a marker brush with the color dodge blending mode.

This work took six hours, with a couple of breaks to get my head clear. Overall, this was a good time.