My hero

This man right here is the reason why I am the way I am. Without him I would be nothing. He is my role model, my friend and my hero.

He is my Dad.

Luther Strode fan art

If you haven't read the incredibly cool Luther Strode comic book, you have no idea what you are missing.

I'm doing an art trade with a friend of mine. I'm doing the pencils (digital in this case) she is gonna color it. She is pretty good so I'm looking forward to the final thing.

Sketch

Fleshing it out

Final lines

Daily Sketch Karee

AVP Work in Progress

Alien vs Predator.

Some work in progress for a school assignment.

Batman Sketch

It is no secret that I love Starbucks. And they love me back. 

This is a Sketch done for a friend at Starbucks.

Christabel you rock.

Bats Sketch

Quick Batman sketch. Just to play around in Sketkchbook pro and Photoshop.

Hands on: Digital Inking in Photoshop CS5

So the search continued.

After seeing the potential and how alive the artwork becomes, it became kind of an obsession to find more and more about this "digital inking" thing. it was imperative that I found out how to get better, and with that comes finding the best tool for the job.

After trying Sketchbook Pro for a while I became sort of comfortable using it. But one thing I haven't experimented on was the sizes of the art boards.  Sure it was fun to use a wide format for sketches but not for an american comic book page format. A comic book page is roughly 11 x 17 inches, although it may vary due to different processes depending on how you like to work (either digitally or traditional) this is the official size. And Sketchbook Pro just doesn't cut it.

Aside from that, I needed to learn, and fast because I was contacted by a client from Deviant Art (my first international commission by the way) to draw a 6 page horror story. I was very exited and had the pencils for the first two pages already finished, but I needed to ink them. I was planning on inking them traditionally, you know as a way of practicing for the real deal, but once again, time is the enemy.

I decided to just dive myself into doing it directly on Photoshop. Like everything else, you just have to go for it. After watching a couple of You Tube Tutorials and a few tricks of my own I managed to ink for the first time a comic book page that resembles the real thing. And to my surprise it wasn't so bad. Here a sample of the finished Page:

And as I said before, I'm very interested in doing video tutorials about all the things that I'm learning, so I can practice and pass on the knowledge to anyone that can benefit from it.

Therefore I give to you, my first digital Inking Video Tutorial :

I hope to get more kick ass as time passes, in the meantime we are just part of the process.