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.

IllustrationFriday - Survival

For some mysterious reason, I recieved the topic again, so here's something about survival. Me surviving without paper that is. Inking in Manga Studio and coloring in Photoshop.

Still torturing myself with the Wacom, I also made this april fool cover in digital

still struggling with the Wacom as a pro.

 Here's another insomnia exercise with Wacom intuos, Manga Studio inking and photoshop textures coloring.

I recently did a test for a publishing company that needed hundreds of sketches for a language teaching book.

 It needed to go fast so I first experimented with pen and paper,

(colors by the very talented Tanja Cinna)

then decided to switch to manga studio to obtain a slicker stroke and work the characters in digital only.

I've been bitten in the backside now since I passed the test, not for the hundreds of small character drawings, but for potentially dozens of elaborate perspective views and characters; I might be playing out of my league as far as digital drawing skills are involved.

But it is a refreshing exercise to pass time before I jump on another automotive comic book about the 24h of Le Mans. See you this summer on a race track somewhere.