Batcave full process

Hey there guys. This time I'll take you through the process on creating my version of the Batcave from scratch to final colors.

1. Sketch. First of all I did a 2x2" thumbnail of the batcave just to get an idea of what I wanted.

Sketch

2. Building perspective. After I scanned the thumbnail, I used Manga Studio Ex 4 software to create a grid on which my perspective lines would lie, and created a background architecture for the cave.

Manga Studio Ex 4

Background architecture

3. Blue line printing. Once I had the perspective lines and the grids in place, I printed a blue line penciled version of the whole thing on an 11x17  comic book bristol paper. I have a Brother Printer that prints to size. It's really cool, I recommend it 100% it is a very good investment.

This is the penciled version on top of the blue line.

Pencils on bristol

This is the scanned version of the pencils.

4. Inks.

5. Coloring

A) Flats
Using Photoshop CS5 I flatted all the figures in the piece. This is called Flats stage. This helps you to make selecting everything instantly. Be sure to keep a separate layer with the flats.

B) Rendering
Once I have picked up the base colors, I start using different techniques to color or "render" the drawing.

Here is a video showing the process http://youtu.be/c7pJPrv8_LE


 That's it! Questions or comments are welcomed.

Silhouette Design

Silhouette designs for Production II homework assignment. Design 20 characters and 20 vehicles.

There are some interesting things out of this exercise. I might pursue one or two of this designs.

Hope you dig!

Wolverine - Elektra

We don't ever see Wolvie smoking anymore.

Wolverine Pages

These are pages done for an assignment for school. It was based on a Wolverine / Elektra script.

Thumbs

Full size roughs

I'm still experimenting with several techniques to find out wich way is faster and better. This time I used Google Sketch up for some of the backgrounds and objects. I still have to lightbox them and put my spin to it. I found out that this Google sketch up is useful just for some things.

Pencils and Inks 11x17" bristol pages.

 

Hope you dig. Wolverine, Elektra and The Hand are trademarks of Marvel.

Dante

This is my final project for two of my classes: my Humor and Caricature class and my Production class.  The goal was to produce a cover and two pages for a comic book, could be original material or whatever. I chose Dante, the character I created at the beginning of the school year. I initially posted a sketch of both of these guys before here

Dante is an ant eater, he works as a bouncer at night clubs and he is cranky all the time. His buddy Javier is a heavy-smoking-booze drinking mandril. Here is the cover and the process.

Final color

Digital pencils

Digital inks

Done in Manga Studio Ex and colored in Photoshop CS5.

Dropper avatar colors

Dropper by Dropper

Damn, almost 2 months after finishing the inks. Talk about a small delay. Well, better late than never.

These are the previous posts of the process: