Thanks for your letter. I’m glad this site is helping you.

I’ve been thinking about the comic art tutorials and I think one thing I can do online that would be difficult in print is to use art from all comics as examples.

To print a book with tutorial lessons from the best comic artists would be a pain to get all of the rights from various publishers to reprint. But if it’s online and done as a review of art I think I can reprint panels from a lot of publishers without tracking down the rights.

Since this will be free of charge, I don’t think anyone will mind if I use an example of John Buscema, Marc Silvestri and J.C. Leyendecker all on the same page.

Keep up your work! You gotta draw everyday!

I also think it’s cool you’re going to be giving actual comics tips. Coming from a small town in England, I can tell you that there’s alot less books on drawing comics and how things are done available. Not knowing as a teen alot of how things were done in comics or why things worked really slowed my progress and was really frustrating. It wasn’t until I got the net a couple years ago that I got a real boost in my work.
I was meant to take a summer school in Comics and Graphic Novels with a Judge Dredd artist but it was cancelled. >_< So any tips I do are always welcome =)

Keep up the great work man.

Dave

Looking forward to it!

i’ve been visiting this blog of yours from time to time.i think what you’re doing with illustrator is great. i ‘ve used painter a few times but its slow. so it would be great for proper tutorials from you using illustrator.

anyway, wish you luck man. i will be surely checking your iron man stuff.

and hey if you have time check my blog as well. i would appreciate any feedback from you.

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bong

I understand now, and I am often annoyed by hearing “I was the first…etc” or “the first person to…” — from a marketing standpoint, that gets old hearing that, so I was likely misdirecting my annoyance with that.

All that aside, Digital Inking, and using the technology we have as a “new tool box” sort of thing is really great and I support that, and the sharing of knowledge in that regard.

HEY– Someone else posted somewhere about that Manga Studio program, for digital inking. If you get a chance to do a review of that or check it out, let me know. It looks promising, like they took things from multiple programs like Indesign, Photoshop and Illustrator and put it into one program. http://www.e-frontier.com/go/mangastudio

You were saying a few negative things about me and that I was one of those guys that pop up and claim they invented everything.

And the peeps on the message board eventually jumped on you for being upset.

Then it turned into an attack on you by the people on the board. So you shut that thread down. There was a lot more that was said but when I read it a lot had already been edited out. People were griping about things that were said but didn’t show up in the thread anymore.

So I started a new thread and answered some questions there and you were kind enough to let that thread continue. But it got me thinking that I needed to take the conversation to my own place.

So I started this site. Thanks for the kick in the pants, really. It got me to get off my ass and finally make a website.

Brian

If you have a part on 1 line that needs to be erased you can correct it redrawing it with the Pencil tool-just double click the pencil tool and turn on the KEEP SELECTED tool and then redraw your line.

If you need to erase sketch lines then that’s a bit different. I sketch like crazy on one layer. If I need to erase there I’ll backstep or just grab some lines to delete. If I’m happy with all of the sketch lines I’ll draw tighter lines on a layer above the sketch layer. And turning down the opacity as I go. Once I get 2 or 3 tight pencil layers I’ll delete the first sketch layers.

One beauty is that once I do create sketch lines I draw over them with my “tight pencils” which are actually just black lines. If I would draw on paper it would be in gray, if I draw in illustrator it’s instantly black.

So my tight pencils is actually full ink work. With a little bit of more effort to add in white highlights or break up some foreground-background shapes my pencils are my completed inks.

Which helps my page rates a lot!

Good luck to you! — DJ COFFMAN

Keep up the great work!!!