A peek at the inking on the new layout of pg10, not a ton will get done this weekend it looks good so far I think.

It continues to be interesting to work over the digital versions of this art I’d done in clip studio. It’s so overly detailed!

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Some of the details when I do want to keep them, I’m doing with my draftsmen’s lamp but even then, I can only do about half the level of detail I was zoomed way in on my tablet.

And this is good, I was getting way too tight really.

This wasn’t my primary reason directly for backing away from working that way, but also these look FINE this way, it was unnecessary I think, and bogging me down. I think a lot of my peers get enamoured with the feeling of control and refinement it gives them but it slows us way down I think and in my case was constantly a fight to keep things from getting stiff.

I had a simple hack using a dot grid as my temporary backdrop with it set to on dot per half inch so I can sort of tell how close I was based on how many dots I could see. But even with the temptation to go in and clean this up more was always there. So back to paper and my old school, friendly feeling tools.

Makes drawing like a hug again. Which, we all could use right now I’m sure.

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In other retro news, I’ve just joined a webring! Both this blog and Sequential are now part of WEBLOG, set up by writer Greg Pak!

You can see the link in my sidebar and feel free to use it to surf over to the next one in the ring when you’re done here!

In keeping with my thoughts in this recent post I love this as part of a move away from the walled gardens a bit. Maybe a lot, if people are brave and join us in numbers.

Randomly this reminds me of themes in my old short ‘Where the Wind Things Were’, you can read that here or get it in print in Revolver One.

Ok, have to go update Sequential with something, and wrap up for the night. Back to the animation mines doing props in Harmony 24 in the morning!

~Max