How I Make A Page of Adamsville

Today I thought I would walk you through how I make a page of Adamsville.  Don’t want to give away much of the context of this page, gotta keep my spoilers low, but here we go!

First things first, I go through my script and do a pretty standard thumbnail of the page I will be doing.  Then I do a very loose pencil rough of that page, which is above.  I draw these roughs on a sheet of 8.5×11 paper  that has a template on it for each page.  Which you can find HERE.

After I am done with the rough I scan that in and resize it to fit the final page size within the program, Manga Studio EX.  I then go to town, inking the mess out of that page!  I started inking all digitally about six months ago when I got frustrated with the flexibility of the analog brushes and tools I was working with.  I highly recommend this program.  This page was a challenge because of the space the characters are in.  Lots of perspective lines and all.

After that I do a process called color flatting, in Photoshop.  It’s a fairly analog process, but it sets the page up to be colored more easily.  If you are interested in learning this process more, you can see a great tutorial from Kazu Kibuishi on his blog, right HERE

Lastly I color the piece in Photoshop.  I use a number of custom brush settings I have aquired over the years or learning how to do this better.  BUt I aim to add mood, atmospheric lighting and texture to help the space feel as real as a make believe place in a comic can be! 

Hope you’ve enjoyed this walkthrough.  Right now I am right on track to be finished with this book by August.  So close I can taste it!

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