illustration friday - octopuss

paper or digital

Upper image is paper inking and photoshop coloring, second image is the same paper inking and watercolors coloring - only the text is a digital edit -
I guess those almost 8 years of experiment lead to a conclusion: My best weapon is a traditional paper inking and a digital coloring and post production effects.

Illustration Friday - Wish

I wish I could sleep.

illustration friday : Metamorphosis

Illo Friday - Journey

I was just getting beer buzzed while listening to this song when today's topic dropped down, it seemed appropriate enough. I am sure now, I'm more a ball pen type of guy than a wacom kind of geek. The wacom's just good enough for some make up around the bones.

Lindy Hop girl

Here's a Lindy Hop influenced DJ girls made for the enthusiastic tailgatecafe 
pencil on paper, strokes in Manga Studio and Illustrator and Photoshop coloring.
Other than that, I am forcing myself to a couple of weeks of summer inactivity in the hope that the desire will come back into a different form and that I lose some of my graphic habits.

More Manga Studio experiment

While working on our next comic book depicting the Ford-Ferrari war at Le Mans, I had the opportunity to work further with the very talented Tanja Cinna on the under mentionned series of schoolbook illustrations aimed at Belgian teenagers. This is so much NOT what I am used to do, it turned out to be a breeze of fresh digital air in what otherwise starts to look like a regular job.
I did all the inking in Manga Studio with a twitch of adobe illustrator, and Tanja lit the scenes in fire with her colors.