Re: VanderHuge Studios

This time it's colored. It's from a sort of series I'm trying to finish quickly. It's processed to look classically printed. This particular section of lines is a little boring, this happened to be a section that wasn't really hit with any distress or printing artifacts.  Should be done with these within the week, then back to the comic. Just a quick break to scratch an itch.

Update: I'm behind.  on schedule. I'm getting better at this, but I'm still not quite as fast as I should be yet. I think part of the problem is sometimes I feel I can't justify shirking responsibilities to work on this; I know that if push comes to shove, and something needs to be done, I can take off a few days to do it. Those add up pretty quickly. Lately (the last few months) , I've gotten pretty good about saying no to things and people when they ask for things that are in conflict. This is important, and this has to come first  is the mantra I've had to pretty much recite every few days to someone or myself. But it's worked. These last few months I feel like I've gotten the most work done. I've tried a few different things and I think the most important thing I've found is staggering the work and setting weekly goals. I'm mostly behind because I wasn't very accurate when estimating the time it would take me. I've got...

Those blue lines looked too perfect (perfect, and perfectly repetitious) , so I blurred them a little to soften them. It's my experience that that trick should work. If it doesn't, I can take it back. I won't know if it worked or not until it's printed. (I'll probably enlarge it and print it poster size, that's a pretty good indicator of if it's fine or needs to be reworked) And this cover isn't the real cover- and it won't be used for anything. I planned to print the book for fun, in sections, along the way as I finished it. But, no one (I can afford for fun ) can print 600ppi, or the equivalent, so I'd either have to set up an extra file for each page just for that, that's 300dppi, reworking the tones, or not and there'd be a seriously wicked moiré pattern over the entire page- to the point of the tones being virtually meaningless. So, I decided against printing it in sections, and I pretty much ended up doing this cover for fu...

I've mentioned a while ago, maybe  definitely a few times, that I've been trying to get a... I don't want to say vintage  because I think that word gets thrown around a little too often lately. Classic comic book look. I started working on a mock cover for the first comic (there is no real issue one of the comic, it'll be printed all at once as a thick book) , and I'm not sure at what point, but I realized I'd need to color it, and decided it should be colored like an old comic. ( old  being an early 80's comic cover. I saw one, and it hit me that I liked the process on it more than any comic that was being produced today, barring a select few.) [The comic was Uncanny X-Men #142 and it definitely inspired the cover. That, and old EC covers. It's already drawn, but I need to ink it and finish it.] When I decided to pick a classic look, I scoured the internet for any available leads on how to proceed in that direction. And when I say, " pick a...