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Im taking some time off from work to learn how to draw a comic, and I'm posting each page here. It's called Project Waldo. Comments are appreciated. Thanks!

You can follow my progress at my blog: [link].

I usually make video game art for a living. Most recently, I led the art team for Demigod, released by Gas Powered Games and Stardock in 2009.

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:iconoicemano:
~oICEMANo Nov 6, 2009, 3:49:04 AM
Great work on the comic man! I really love the colours and lines. you might wanna revisit your speech bubbles though. I find them a tad bit too uneven.

Otherwise this project rocks!

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~hughferriss Nov 7, 2009, 9:00:01 AM
Thanks for the encouragement, Iceman!

I agree about the speech bubbles! I'll be going back in and using paths to redraw them. The main drawback to learning by doing is that you often end up learning by re-doing! Oh well!
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~oICEMANo Nov 8, 2009, 11:39:57 PM
Hey maybe this will help?
[link]

Its pretty useful.

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~Gannadene Nov 4, 2009, 5:44:39 PM
I was wondering how you drew your line work. I noticed you seem to start with a scratched out primary as a development page, although I couldn't tell if this was digital or not.

If you're working traditional with a pen and drawing paper, what materials and tools are you using? If you work entirely digital, what's your process like for creating your linework? It looks too clean to be traditional, although that could come from working panels in from multiple sheets and backing off the workspace. Et cetera.

Just curious about your process.
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~hughferriss Nov 4, 2009, 9:21:20 PM
Hi Gannadene,

The process is digital from start to finish. I usually make a rough drawing using the brush tool, then knock it down to fifty percent opacity and draw on a new layer above that one. I repeat this process until I'm happy with the result (sometimes five or six times). Eventually, things sort of tighten up on their own.

Hope that helps!
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~Gannadene Nov 4, 2009, 9:58:47 PM
Couple more things then:

*What's your scale like on a typical page, as far as pixels? Around 5k x 5k?

*You keep the brush for your linework or use the line tool, or pen?

Thanks for the response. I consider myself a line artist, but I've been looking for a way to apply that "clean" look to everything without losing too much speed in the process.
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~hughferriss Nov 4, 2009, 10:48:28 PM
Each of these pages is 3300x5100 pixels. I draw everything with the brush on default settings -- usually 4-pixel width for thin lines and 7-pixel width for outlines. As for not losing speed, I haven't quite figured that one out yet!
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~Gannadene Nov 4, 2009, 10:53:52 PM
I hate lassoing, much less redrawing primaried lines across an entire image. I can't begin to imagine how long it must take, not even considering the borderless color scheme you use. If I ever figure out a way to do something like that that doesn't take five hours, I'll let you know. :matteo:
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*dunwich7 Nov 3, 2009, 2:19:43 PM
I love how your work is soooo detailed and how (once it's coloured) it doesn't look cluttered at all. Awesome.
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~hughferriss Nov 4, 2009, 9:26:58 PM
Thank you very much! I'm glad it all sort of settles down once the color comes in. I'm never really sure what works and what doesn't, so it's good to hear that you like it.

Much obliged!
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