This looks like an Andy Warhol-style famous-for-fifteen-minutes portrait of John Carr but the idea is to come up with a colour harmony that will suit the Carr Tricentenary exhibit in the Redbox Gallery in Horbury.
Procreate includes a Colour Harmony Wheel so starting off with the colour of Yorkshire stone – the coal measures sandstone of St Peter’s Church – I’ve experimented with the various options available. Complementary does give me enough colours, Tetradic gives too many fighting against each other, so it’s the Split Complementary, Analogous and Triadic that are most likely to give me a workable colour scheme.
Now that I’ve steadily gone through the basics of Clip Studio Paint EX, I’m ready to get the program working for me and to use its features to speed up my workflow.
As I’m sticking with the same layout for the whole series of Gargoyle comic strips, I’ve saved the four-frame layout as a template, which is simply the blank comic strip before I’ve added any drawings or text.
All I have to do next time is open the template and get straight on with the drawing.
The title of the strip goes in a fifth frame; the only difference is that this one has no border around it.
Clip Studio Paint EX, iPad Pro and Apple Pencil
Frame & Paper
If the Frame as a whole is selected, you won’t be able to draw on any of the layers within that frame.
What once seemed obscure has now become second nature to me. For instance, when using the pen or pencil tool, I was often baffled when the mouse-pointer changed to a ‘No Entry’ sign and I was unable to draw. Now if that happens, I head straight for the Frames palette as it usually turns out that I’m attempting to draw on the ‘Frame’ rather than on the virtual ‘paper’ (my layers for roughs, pencils, pen and paint) inside that frame.
Colour Set & Colour Wheel
For my first Adam & the Gargoyle comic strip I kept the process as simple as possible by accepting all the defaults. I chose colours from the Default color set but I’m now starting to use the Colour Wheel, which gives an almost infinitely varied choice of colours.
Borders and Balloons
I’m now able to adjust the widthof the border around each frame and of the border around the speech bubbles.
That elusive balloon-editing palette. I don’t normally keeping it floating in the workspace.
The latter isn’t that obvious, as you need to select the bubble with the Object Selector(left), not the Text Tool and you then have to delve down into the Tool Property [Object] Sub-tool Palette.
Link
Clip Paint Studio EX: the iPad version is currently free for the first six months, if you want to try it.
