What Are We Going To Do Tomorrow Night, Brain? Part 2 (Or… How I Roll)
This is probably the closest I ever come to instructionals, but here’s another start to finish post. I’ll post the color stuff next…
In my previous Pinky and the Brain as Doombot and Dr. Doom, I posted the prelim sketch that took maybe 10 minutes. I had drawn on regular letter size paper and ran out of room.
I then grabbed a couple sheets of typing paper and taped them together to get s sheet of paper the size of the bristol board that I as going to ink on. I was too lazy to get up and find the proper size paper, I admit it. You can see I moved the globe s I could get all of Pinky/Doombot into the art. This took about a 15 minutes… Shows, doesn’t it?
I inked this on the 9″ X 12″ Bristol board while watching “The Warriors”. I love the Hi Hat gang. Just hilarious! Anyway… I used Pitt Brush and Calligraphy pens, one of those real calligraphy style pens that you dip into the ink, a rapidiograph pen of the .25 pen tip size. Nothing special. I didn’t try getting as close as possible to the animation models, either. I inked the fur and everything else as I’m normally prone to do. Over rendered or something. I would have used some more spot blacks if I wasn’t intending to color it.
I scanned it in at 300 dpi (ALWAYS kids). Some people go 600 or 400 or whatever. Those people tend to be constipated. 300′s fine for most print jobs including billboards and the sides of jet liners. It can depend on the job, though… Don’t scan in grayscale or color modes if you’re scanning lineart. Scan it in whatever bitmap mode your scanner has. And just for all of those people that complain about they “can’t get a good scan because their scanner sucks”; MY scanner sucks, but it never prevents me from getting a clean scan. You have to adjust to the scanner you have. I have a smaller scanner at the moment, too, but piecing together art in photoshop is only a headache if you allow it to be. Scan at right angles and there’s nothing to it. It would be nice to have one of those 11 X 17 scanners, though…
Color toons in the next post.
