Digital art discussion - Other Crafts

G GROG Grand Member (1 year) Tujunga Joined: Jun 21, 2006 Posts: 7283	G GROG Posted posted on Fri, Jul 15, 2011 11:22 AM The cover illustration GROG did for Tiki Magazine was ALL Photoshop. GROG originally want to do it tradional medium, like acrylics or watercolor, but GROG wanted to be sure and have Ben in the Maikai shirt, and that was going to be so much detail it would have taken forever. So, GROG decide to do it all digital. Still, it take GROG a week to complete (not full 8 hour days, though). In the end GROG was able to get the image GROG had envisioned in GROG' mind, and that was the bottom line---what medium could best get the final image that GROG had imagined, and that was digital. http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ufD6IKWIsQ/SBjV9KyD78I/AAAAAAAADtA/pHWw5aMwnIs/s1600-h/TM+Cover+10+-+Ben.jpg Ben's body is actually 4 different photos combined and manipulated in Photoshop to get the pose GROG wanted. His head, both arms. and his body are all separate photos, and they still all had to be tweaked also. The Bamboo Ben comic GROG does for Tiki Magazine is a combination traditional and digital. It is drawn and inked by hand, and then colored in the computer. GROG an animator, not a comic artist, so if not for the computer simplifying the process for making the comic, there probably wouldn't be a Bamboo Ben comic. The bad part is, that when GROG mess up some of the inking and drawing part, GROG not redraw it, GROG just scan into Photoshop and fix the images in there. So, GROG can't really sell any of the original Bamboo Ben comic art, because most of it doesn't match the final comic, and also GROG not do the comic the way most comics are done. Instead of drawing out the comic panel and inking it, GROG draw the elements, like the backgrounds and characters, separate and then combine them in Photoshop. GROG then crop the image and put the border on the panel. And that is not the way most comic artists do their comics.

The cover illustration GROG did for Tiki Magazine was ALL Photoshop. GROG originally want to do it tradional medium, like acrylics or watercolor, but GROG wanted to be sure and have Ben in the Maikai shirt, and that was going to be so much detail it would have taken forever. So, GROG decide to do it all digital. Still, it take GROG a week to complete (not full 8 hour days, though). In the end GROG was able to get the image GROG had envisioned in GROG' mind, and that was the bottom line---what medium could best get the final image that GROG had imagined, and that was digital.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_0ufD6IKWIsQ/SBjV9KyD78I/AAAAAAAADtA/pHWw5aMwnIs/s1600-h/TM+Cover+10+-+Ben.jpg

Ben's body is actually 4 different photos combined and manipulated in Photoshop to get the pose GROG wanted. His head, both arms. and his body are all separate photos, and they still all had to be tweaked also.

The Bamboo Ben comic GROG does for Tiki Magazine is a combination traditional and digital. It is drawn and inked by hand, and then colored in the computer. GROG an animator, not a comic artist, so if not for the computer simplifying the process for making the comic, there probably wouldn't be a Bamboo Ben comic. The bad part is, that when GROG mess up some of the inking and drawing part, GROG not redraw it, GROG just scan into Photoshop and fix the images in there. So, GROG can't really sell any of the original Bamboo Ben comic art, because most of it doesn't match the final comic, and also GROG not do the comic the way most comics are done. Instead of drawing out the comic panel and inking it, GROG draw the elements, like the backgrounds and characters, separate and then combine them in Photoshop. GROG then crop the image and put the border on the panel. And that is not the way most comic artists do their comics.

Post #597707 by GROG on Fri, Jul 15, 2011 11:22 AM