[Image: Colored pencil drawing of Hue Saffron with a snarky expression, flipping the bird.]
Lauren has a bad attitude and is not putting up with my bullshit.
Oh and I haven’t figured out if she needs glasses as Saffron or not. She probably will, because that would make it more interesting, I think. But I obviously forgot to draw them.
Ink, colored pencils, and marker on brown card stock
[Image: Illustration of a woman in a wedding gown holding a red parasol. Behind her is a cherry tree with red and white blossoms.]
A wedding gift for my friend Amanda.
Marker, ink, brush pen, and chalk pencils on brown recycled paper.
[Image: Colored pencil drawing of Hue Citrus on brown paper.]
DAT CHIN. Now that I look at this one from a distance, her arm proportions are pretty wonky. ~_~; I need to practice that arms-crossed-over-chest gesture, it seems!
Ink, marker, and colored pencils on brown card stock.
[Image: A side-by-side comparison of a comic panel lettered digital by hand vs. lettered with a font.]
I’m trying to make this comic as thoroughly mine as I can.
I’ve been interested in doing my own lettering for The Hues, as opposed to using the font tool, which I did for Garanos. As a parenthetical, I hand letter Alex’s Guide, but that’s mostly because it’s all natural media, apart from the coloring. I’ve never properly “learned” lettering in the classical sense, and a majority of searching for a tutorial led to hand lettering with pen and paper.
However, this three part series on Making Comics was really helpful getting me started in digital hand lettering! Above are my results, compared to the same panel lettered with the type tool and my old technique for making word balloons. On the left, the balloons are drawn with vectors, and on the right, they’re drawn freehand with the lasso tool.
I may look back at these letters in a year and cringe at how they look, but I’m really happy with how it changes the page, especially with the nicer word bubbles.
Four years of art school, 8 years of cartooning, and over a decade using Photoshop, all adding up to creating a filter effect to make something look like it was filmed on a crappy laptop webcam and uploaded to YouTube at 240p.
WHAT AM I DOING I DON’T EVEN
[Image: Screencap of a comic page in progress in Photoshop.]
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
Commiting pixels to psd is stressful.
NO GOING BACK.
[Image: A colored pencil and ink illustration of Hue Scarlett on dark brown paper.]
Aaaaaaaaah Andy is so cute, I love to draw her.
Ink, colored pencil, and marker on brown card stock.
[Image: Colored pencil drawing of Hue Spectrum on dark brown paper.]
I got a lot of drawing done during the slow periods at Youmacon!
Here’s a drawing of Hue Spectrum with colored pencils and sharpie on brown card stock. When I first started drawing and writing The Hues back in 1998, I did all my artwork with markers and colored pencils. 14 years and an art degree in digital media later, I feel like I’ve come full circle in drawing these characters again in their new forms with these pencils. (I seriously still have every colored pencil I’ve owned since junior high in a giant pencil box. It is awesome.)
I’m not 100% settled on what role the Hues’ uniforms will take on in the 2013 version, but I drew the girls in them anyway, just for fun. :)
Hey everyone, I’m going to be in the artist alley at Youmacon this weekend! I’m trying something new at this convention, and I’m going to be pushing my on-site commissions more than usual. I’ll be drawing on this 5.5 x 8.5 inch color cardstock with ink, pencils, and colored pencils.
Black and White will be $15.
Color will be $25.
I drew up these four samples to get me started! Wish me luck, come say hello if you’ll be there. :D
