Keavey Henshaw Unit 3 Graphics: Making of Final Piece

Setting up the Photoshop file

To start with I set up a Photoshop file, the size of the canvas was set to the global size of an A4 piece of paper. Once this was done I separated the page into three equal sections. This once printed out and cut down would give me the size of my comic. Setting up guild lines I set it so that there was a 1cm break between each double page. This would eventually allow me the ability to cut the pages, once printed without any chance of cutting into my work.

After the guild-lines were perfect, I filled in the area which would become my pages with the paint bucket tool. This then made it much easier to differentiate between what was going to be my comic, and what was free space.

Adding Texture

In order to add texture to my final piece. I took a normal piece of paper and screwed it up, I then scanned this piece of paper into my laptop and placed it on my Photoshop document. Using blending modes I then changed the layer to Multiply, this added the paper texture over my original white background.

Sketching, Colour and Shading

Photoshop Layout

To begin with I started by creating my filler page design. Following the drafting I had already created I arranged the four separate drawings on my first double page spread. Once this was done I changed the layer to multiply so you can see some of the original paper texture through the drawings. Then this was done I locked the layer so I couldn't accidentally move it or edit it.

I then started adding all my other drawings and doing the same process I described before. Doing this allowed me to archive an authentic and different stylized feeling to my comic. The paper background to each image added texture and made the drawings more interesting. All the screenshots below show the progress I slowly made by adding in more drawings and editing them individually.