Multiple Inking Styles over Dell'Otto tonal pencils of Spider-Man

I found this tonal pencil drawing of Spider-man by Gabriele Dell’otto along with seven variations of inking styles by:

• Andy Brase;
• Tony DeZuniga;
• Craig Hamilton;
• Geof Isherwood;
• Terry Moore;
• Josef Rubinstein; and
• Atula Siriwardane.

Awesome example of how comic book inkers are not “tracers” but true artists bringing their own unique style to the creative process.

Original Tonal Pencils by Gabriele Dell’ottoInks by Andy Brase

Inks by Tony DezunigaInks by Craig HamiltonInks by Geof IsherwoodInks by Terry MooreInks by Josef RubinsteinInks by Atula Siriwardane

Update on Thursday, April 8, 2010 by Kris Black

I decided to color Geof Isherwoods inks. I used Corel Painter 11 and my Wacom Intuos 3 6 x 11 tablet. I experimented with a warm light coming from the left and a cooler backlight from the lower right. I’m pleased with my first attempted at coloring a comic book illustration.

Colors by Kris Black over Inks by Geof Isherwood

Spider-man and Kitty Pride

I drew this for two (comic-loving) friends that got married this weekend. Adam is a HUGE fan of Kitty Pride from the X-men. If you are not familiar with her and her mutant ability the best way to sum it up is she can walk through walls.

Within the last year or so there was a Spider-man story that involve Peter Parker having a relationship with Kitty Pride. So I thought I would depict the two of them web swinging and Spidey gets a little too close to a building and Kitty Pride has to “phase” through it.

I used Faber-Castell PITT artist pens and brush markers to ink and shade over my blue-line penciling. And if you are wondering, my family and I did get them a proper gift to accompany this crummy little drawing I made.

My Digital Drawing of a Twitter Bird

I’ve been participating in MacHeist 3 this year (more about MacHeist). On completion of the latest mission you gained access to a copy of Scribbles by software developer, atebits. Atebits is also responsible for bringing the best Twitter app to the iPhone/iPod Touch, Tweetie, which I use and you should too.

I’ve made a promise recently to myself to start drawing more by doing a drawing a day. Now I haven’t kept myself to that but I do the best I can with the time I have. So I decided to test run Scribbles by creating my very own Twitter bird to enhance my little Twitter update in the sidebar of my Web site.

Scribbles is, in a word, AWESOME! It couldn’t be simpler to use. It very responsive and gets out of your way to allow you to focus on your art. It has an infinite canvas so you need not worry about page size. It has very well crafted brushes and the color picker is awesome.

Scribbles reminds me a lot of Brushes for the iPhone/iPod Touch which I’m also a user of that too. I highly recommend Scribbles. If you check it out please let me know what you think of it in the comments.

My First Digital Inking and Coloring

Honestly, I think this is not that great in terms of showing my skills but I think it’s a damn fine first go at digital inking. Especially, considering that I’ve always hated traditional inking.

I have a long way to go before I think I’ll ever be happy with my style but I think that’s true with any artist. If we were ever truly happy then what would push us to get better? Chocolate? Probably.

Thanks Brian for all your words of encouragement whether you meant them to be that or not.

Pirate

My daughter went to a birthday on October 30 that had a pirate theme. All of the kids were giving these incredible little treasure chests that had an eye patch, bandana, telescope and other little novelty items a pirate might have while sailing at sea.

This inspired me to draw a pirate. No references, jut what I could come up with from my imagination. The only thing I didn’t do was name the pirate. Below is my sketch and the inked version. If you can come up with a name for the pirate that would be great.