So.
There's this thing that's been bugging me. It's called a bamboo tablet and I have one. Silly thing is I have less control over the medium on the tablet than I do on good ol' paper and I gotta say, the old ink and paper method, the Joe Kubert tried and true style, is where I'm best at-- I'm just old school like that. That being said, I do want to give tablets another try when I can muster enough chump change to purchase a Cintiq, which in my opinion, is as close to digital ink and paper as you can get. I think I'll still ink my pages by hand, but maybe I'll try to sketch out the roughs on a Cintiq before then print to proceed.
Now then.
Shown here are some of my recent/unpublished tablet craptasterpieces I had laying around with a full reasoning of why and how. I'll start posting my old sketchy favorites that no one but I have seen after this.
This is a character I've had since forever. She's a work of art, but this is not. NEVER try to do a spontaneous 1am tablet poster when you haven't drawn the character in months. I actually FORGOT she had an eyepatch and fingerless gloves when I did this. Then I added the eyepatch. Not the gloves though. This is a realistic version of why I hate that damn tablet. The tablet itself is just a black board that you draw on, but when you use it you have to get accustomed to drawing not where you're looking. Thankfully, when I get that Cintiq, it has a screen that you actually draw ON, much unlike this bamboo shit
I wanted to draw something random as hell with just an eraser and a base color. No idea why I drew a gator who turned into a samurai. Maybe it was the cereal I was eating at the time or maybe it was an amalgamation of dream-like warriors I had forgotten and ended up creating. Hmmm...actually I may've just stumbled upon a great story: Gator Samurai, Savior of the Swamp. Hahaha
After reading a whole bunch of noir tales, working on my graphic novella, and spending oodles of time with my girlfriend, I decided to draw one of my favorite creations, Fantine, in a particularly shadowy setting. I was fucked around with the dodge tool on this and screwed up her hair. She'd beat me if she was real. The only thing I really like about this picture is that name plate I drew at the top. Been reading too much Brandon Graham shit
So this is a super-late night attempt at a comic on the tablet with no idea where the story was going and no idea what I was drawing other than drawing what I wanted to. It was supposed to be part one of a Valentine's day gift comic, hence all the love and heart themes, but my loved one came over too quickly and I had no time to finish it. This one's for you, pie of cute
Drawn for my facebook during a particularly Pokemon week for me. I was experimenting with layers, little to no solid black lines, and cool, manga effects-- came off rather how I hoped it would with a few exceptions. The pokeball turned into an evergrowing disaster the more I worked on it. My throw hand looks like crap. For a cheshire ghost, Gengar sure is stiff. Also, I wanted to give Gengar a nickname but didn't think anyone would get his name out of context. My Gengar's name is Gengarvitis-- could never spell that shit in the game because it was one letter too long
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