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By: smacleod

smacleod — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:02:43 +0000

Awesome. Thanks for showing your process. Really nice work.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:21:52 +0000

Aaaaaah…I love the sketch. Why can’t I sketch like that. Damn.

By: matt

matt — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:54:13 +0000

Hey Midodok.

Not sure what you mean? Just the spiky things? I don’t know what they’re called, but I probably lifted them from trees by Dave Cooper (Dan & Larry).

By: Midodok

Midodok — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:24:56 +0000

What do you call that texture on your trees? I’ve seen you use it before and I like it!

By: eli edmundson

eli edmundson — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:29:55 +0000

Great stuff! I love the inked lines and can’t wait to see the finished Ojingogo. I’ve seen other artists use green/red roughs, I’m a cartoonist but didn’t go to art school, is this a common technique? I’m all digital now but it’s always fascinating to see other artists processes.

By: DH.

DH. — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:57:17 +0000

awesome! That is more or less my process as well, though I’ve taken to just not erasing for certain projects, so I don’t accidentally smudge the ink in my impatience. Are you using erasable colored pencils? They’re harder to find these days…

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:54:22 +0000

Thanks, DH!

Yeah, I just ink straight on the paper; and then lightly erase the pencil. If the pencil marks are light enough, I won’t erase at all.

Scan the whole thing at 600dpi greyscale, bump up to 1200dpi and threshold it. This makes the lines really nice and crisp. No more grey fuzzy pixels.

I’ll explain in greater detail in another post :)

By: DH.

DH. — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:29:52 +0000

That’s awesome! I love seeing the process like this. Do you ink over the red & green, and then take out the pencils in Photoshop? Or do you use a lightbox or something like that?

I love the page and I love Ojingogo!