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 Art tips and techniques, reviews and interviews from my studio. Archived here and at World Famous Comics. Comics 101 for 10/11/2001 White Wolf - Werewolf: Storyteller Cover! Week Two: In my studio, no one can hear you scream After I email the final line drawing and it's approved, I begin inking the illustration using a Hunt's 102 crowquill dip pen and Speedball Super Black India Ink (Example C). Notice the runes are missing from the ink step as I plan on completing them digitally for the final. In my earlier pencil drawing, I actually added them quickly for placement using Photoshop to give my art director an idea of where they would be in the final. When I complete the inked drawing and use acrylic white out for touching up some mistakes, erasing the pencil lines also, I scan it into my computer as line art at 300 d.p.i (dots or pixels per inch). This is usually best for the final resolution when creating electronic color art for print. I save it as a greyscale document once I open it Photoshop and change the mode to RGB under the 'Image' menu option. This allows me to begin rendering this line art in full color in my Macintosh computer.  Example C Since I knew I had wanted to try some unique tools, textures, and techniques using both Photoshop and Painter combined I felt the need to test my color scheme. Before I magically created this cover, I painted just a section of my scanned pencil art and worked up a color rough quickly using mainly watercolors, airbrush, and oil brushes in Painter. I sent this color rough (Example D) and the following email to my art director to keep her updated with my progress...  Example D Here's a small color rough of a section of the cover illustration that I have began painting electronically using Painter and Photoshop. I started painting my refined pencil sketch just as a test to try some different techniques and textures as an experiment. This small color sketch is a bit rough but I just wanted to show you the general color sense that I have in mind overall for this cover. The rendering on the wolves will be much tighter once I ink them for the final though I still will try to keep a looseness or freshness with the electronic watercolors and oils. The background walls (and runes) will be rendered mostly with paint (and some paper textures in Painter) to give the rock more texture as opposed to ink to make it separate from the foreground characters.See you next week and remember... leave the children at home! And if you are squeamish stay home with them! -Joe Recent Columns:
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