Going through the Clip Studio Paint tutorial, from storyboard to draft.
Storyboard to Draft
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Bilberry Comic Spread
The final panels drawn, hand-drawn borders added and a hopefully subtle paper texture added. Hope my editor likes it but, if not, I can soon adapt it to a regular nature diary format.
Natural Colour
The flat colour that I like for my figures and cartoon animals doesn’t suit the straightforward natural history I’m including in the comic, so I’ve gone for gentler watercolour effect in Clip Studio Paint. As the colour is on a separate layer from the line drawing it’s easy to start again with a fresh layer to try alternatives.
Colour: Flat or Fuzzy?
Adding flat tone, texture and colour: as this is destined for an A5 sized page, flat tone might work better than subtle effects, but for now I’m leaving these frames as they are. If any one of them stands out as looking out of place on the final spread I can go back to it.
Chris and Fiona
Chris and Fiona get the cartoon treatment in the final panel of ‘Bilberry Wood’. For colouring I’ve discovered a useful new (to me) tool in Clip Studio Paint, the ‘Direct Draw, Lasso Fill’.
Bilberry Inks
I’m at the inking stage, drawing with my Apple Pencil on the iPad Pro, using the ‘Real G-Pen’ in Clip Studio Paint for images and lettering. I’m trying different styles, so I’ve gone from a cartoony approach in panel 2 to something a bit freer and messier in panel 3. I’ll decide which I like when I see the final coloured version.
Bilberry Rough
I’ve dropped the speech bubbles, panels and frames into the layout of page 2 of the Bilberry Wood comic. All that I have to now is draw the final artwork . . .
Chaucer & Co
I spent the morning researching connections to Chaucer, Ruskin and Darwin for my Bilberry Wood comic strip but it’s not a thesis, it’s a double-page spread comic, so I’ve roughed out some ideas to work out how I’m going to fit it all in.
iPad Drawing
More experiments drawing on the iPad in Adobe Fresco (above) and Clip Studio Paint.
Bilberry Wood Comic
Still learning various techniques in the first two frames of my Bilberry Wood comic, drawn, designed and coloured in Clip Studio Paint on my iPad Pro. I like the slightly resistant surface of the Paperlike screen protector when I’m drawing with my Apple Pencil.