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 Art tips and techniques, reviews and interviews from my studio. Archived here and at World Famous Comics. Comics 101 for 09/27/2001 Blood and Rose: Time Lords by Joe Corroney Week Four - The Pencils These last illustrations are the actual final pencil art I created by xeroxing my rough sketches, placing them on my lightbox and tracing over my inital framework of drawings on a fresh sheet of board. I trace over some of the lines I want to keep and begin cleaning up the composition and drawings more in general. I do this by adding more detail and making my drawings more developed while working on the lightbox. Also in this new layer of penciling, working on the lightbox allows me to keep the layout of the composition consistent and also allows for fine tuning it. 
This process of 'fleshing in' my drawings includes giving them form and depth along with details such as clothing, weapons and facial expressions. These important details lend believability to the characters and story. Along with anatomy, I'm also focusing my concentration on background environments which are just as important as the characters and often over-looked in comic art. Using a variety of textures for hair, clothing, skin, trees, etc. help separate the various aspects of this illustrations and the feel of the panels. With some attention to dynamic light and shade, perspective and variety of line weights the final pencil art comes together on the following pages. 
Looking at these final penciled pages, you can see I like to draw my line art very clear and very tight. This makes me feel more confident when I won't be inking myself and passing these pages on to another inker. This way there is no question as to what the final drawing should end up looking like when inked and no important details are lacking to cause confusion for the inker. One key bit of advice I had passed down onto me from my comic book illustration teacher while in college was to think of your pencil as an ink pen when drawing your final line art. If you think of every line you draw with your pencil as a permanent inked line on your page, it helps your pencils to become tighter, clearer and more professional. You choose your lines more carefully and wisely this way as often times in comics, less is more. 
Be sure to check out Comics 101 next week as we get creepy and go behind the scenes of my 'horror' art just in time for Halloween. We dissect my methods of madness for the full color cover I illustrated for the White Wolf book, 'Werewolf the Apocolypse: Revised Storyteller Screen'. Be afraid, be very afraid... -Joe Recent Columns:
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