RickBrowder

So... I'm not what I would call an inker. I understand the basics of it, but since I'm primarily a pencil kind of guy, I've never gotten a lot of practice with the inking side of things. I am trying to go all "one-man-show" on my own graphic novel, however, so I'm finding I have to pull skills out of my theory box and install them in my active skills (oh, if only it were that easy). Reading hints and tips from other inkers, one piece of advice stands out as a universal truth... to get good at inking, you have to practice. While I'm not good at it, I do feel myself getting more comfortable with the aspect of inking, and as it becomes a little

It's been a minute since I posted anything in here, it's just that I haven't had a whole lot to report. What with work and my family life, I don't have much time to do any drawing (if I'm lucky, I get my 3 15-minute breaks at work in which to draw.. not great for letting oneself get into the groove). I've been working in pencil, then scanning into the computer to try to work on my inks, then hoping to get to the point I can do my colors and letters. So far, the workflow hasn't been great. It turns out that when I try to ink with my Wacom Intuos, I'm still not quite used to the offset between tablet and computer screen, so my results are less

I've been working slowly on the writing and pencils for my graphic novel, The Shadow Box. It's such slow going because I have so little time to actually work on it. Couple that with the fact that I decided to redraw the first chapter because I wanted to go a different direction with the art, and you have a project that's taking far longer than it really should. Be that as it may, tonight I uploaded the first 4 pages of chapter one. This is a big step for me, because I don't like people to see my unfinished work, and while the penciling for these pages is done, the work as a whole is unfinished. At the same time, however, I want to be able to