Flat Plan No. 3 - Keith Again

Below is a detailed flat plan of a comic called Keith Again. Within this flat plan, I've not only stuck strictly to the colour scheme which the artist used, which in this case fact a simplistic black and white but I have also annotated the most important parts of the comic.

Flat Plan No. 2 - Freak Leap

Below is a detailed flat plan of a comic called Freak Leap. Freak Leap was written by and illustrated by a man called Joe List. Within this flat plan, I've not only stuck strictly to the colour scheme which the artist used, which in this case fact a simplistic black and white but I have also annotated the most important parts of the comic.

Flat Plan No. 1 - Unsettled

Below is a detailed flat plan of a small press comic called Unsettled. Unsettled was created by an american illustrator know as James Hindle. Within this flat plan, I've not only stuck strictly to the colour scheme which the artist used, which was in fact a simplistic black and white colour pallet. I also annotated the most important parts of the comic.

Emulation No. 2

After completing my second copy I decided to create a page, with the same processes but containing character from my second small comic. These character are the two cats which invade the garden and torment my main character. For this piece I based the idea of the two felines situated on the decking within the main characters garden. The thinner, more elegant of the two is meant to look alert and sly, although the much fluffier one of the pair is meant to look relaxed and happy asleep next to it's companion.

Following the process I did for my second emulation which involved the use of mainly black ink and the colouring digitally, I first completed and refined the sketch before starting to add the large black areas. I also added shading, emulating the ways in which the original demonstrated it.

Above is the final image showing all the inking process being complete. After this stage was finalized and perfected I scanned in the image and then uploaded it to Photoshop where I digitally coloured it.

This was my final product.

Emulation No. 1

Above is the starting sketch for my first emulation. This emulation was based of the design techniques which I have already practised on my first copy. This copy included sketching, tracing the line with a fine liner, and then using brightly saturated inks to colour in. I firstly started of this process by sketching onto a landscape orientated piece of paper. This sketch would later be refined and re-drawn with a fine-liner.

Above, the image shows my refined and fine-lined sketchbook page before I started to inking process, this took around about an two hours to properly finalize and add detail such as fur.

Once I'd completed the line refining i started off with adding the lightest coloured inks on my emulation, these were in fact yellows and very light green. Due to the fact my main character is mainly yellow and orange colour ( explaining the title of the comics, which is Crazy Yellow Dog Adventures ) it didn't take long before the main part of the piece was complete. After adding detail into my characters collar, and then the darker greens into the bushes I felt the piece to dry. Once dry, I began adding the grey rock colours in which my character is jumping off and also then started on the sky. Wanting to keep in theme with the copy I was adapting this process off, I decided to really darken the background and keep it mainly black, although in parts I did add some blue hues to simulate a storm weather type feel.

This was my final emulation once complete.

Copy No. 2

Below are the processes I have gone through to create my second copy. This is a piece by Charles Burns, from a well known comic called Black Holes. Below is the stages I took to complete an emulation of his work.

This is the original piece I am attempting to copy.

The first stage was a series of pencil sketches, these entailed drawing the character from eye and each time building in more and more detail. This took around about 40 minutes until I had reached the final design.

After i'd completed the pencil outline, I traced the lines with ink onto another piece of paper. This process was done with a thin brush and black ink, though it took a great deal of time to get the lines perfectly traced from one piece of paper to the next.

Above is the finalized ink version of my emulation. This was then scanned into my laptop and coloured with the appropriate colours according to the original version

 Above is the final product.

Copy No. 1

Below is the process in which I went through to complete my first copy. To begin with I started my searching through a variety of graphic design and comic books before I was able to find a challenging and intricate design. This image was in fact Arzach and his winged companion surveying their prey, in 1975 by Moebius.

To start with I began by printing out a version of the drawing and starting to sketch it lightly into my book. This process took about an hour in total, this being to get a suitable and resemblance between my version and the original.

Once the sketch was final, I decided to fine line around the line-work so that it would be legible when I started to ink / watercolour. I specifically used a waterproof fine liner so that it would not run when I added the colour.

Starting too add the inks on my first try, I began with added the lightest first, therefore the yellow and then proceeding to add darker layers on top of each other. Although this was rather difficult, the colours in which I needed to use wouldn't blend very well so almost made the copy look patchy and unfinished.

Once all the coloured were added and I had completed the background this was the final result.

After I'd completed the ink copy I decided to redo all the stages above but with watercolour. This was my final piece when done with watercolour.

Ink / Photoshop Overlay Experimentation

Character Reference - Max

Below is a reference sheet for my three comics main character, Max. This design was firstly sketched lightly onto some paper before being scanned into my laptop and put onto a digital drawing software called Paint Tools Sai. I then went over the initial lines, and then started to colour in, and create the characters design features.

Character Reference - Ginger Fluffy Cat

Below is a reference sheet for the fat ginger fluffy cat which is featured in my second comic. This design was lightly draw onto some paper before being scanned into my laptop and put onto a digital drawing software. I then went over the initial lines, and then started to colour in, and create the characters design features.

Character Reference - Brown Cat

Below is a reference sheet for the brown Siamese cat which is featured in my second comic. This design was lightly draw onto some paper before being scanned into my laptop and put onto a digital drawing software. I then went over the initial lines, and then started to colour in, and create the characters design features.

Mid-point Drafting & Refining

Below are the refinements of my three comics, due to the fact that I have a limited time period, I will be lessening my ideas to only one comic instead of three. The refinements and simple drawings are shown in two presentations below.

Primary Drawings Of Subject Matter

Below are several sketchbook pages designed and based on the bullet points I made throughout my initial idea dummy books. Going through each page and thinking about subject matter which could surround the current bullet point I did a few pages of sketches for each book.

Below are the water coloured versions of the original drawings.

Digitial Drawings Of Subject Matter

To get a deeper understanding of what type of medium I would be using to create my final product I decided to do some digital sketches and then colour them. Doing this gave me an idea of the time and processes it would take to complete my comic digitally against completing it traditional mediums.

Below are several pages containing digital drawings of subject matter. Some being referenced from primary photographs and some from secondary sourced photographs.

Above is the process I went though to create my digital drawing. I firstly started of by finding some secondary images and then putting them into Photoshop so I could use them for a later reference. Once that was done I begun on the outline, following the outline of the original image as much as I could to archive a relatively good copy. After the line work was completed I started to add colour, and then shading. Below are my finals.