Turtle Process

Here you get to see a page in production from beginning to end. This is a page from the upcoming TMNT #14 which I am woking on with Ric Remender. Since Ric was pressed for time due to his schedule, there are a few pages I am doing more finished art on.

First we start with Ric's layout, which was draw by him in marker, scanned into his computer and printed out in non-repro blue ink full comic size at 10 X 15 and printed on 2 ply Bristol, smooth surface paper ( which I darkend here to show you the viewer better) and Fedexed to me along with the rest of the pages.


Next I went in after reviewing the plot which Ric included and tightened up the page, also looking at the other pages Ric had sent for the issue. I did a quick Google search with my laptop which sits on my drawing table right in front of me, and found a baboon baby pic for ref for the baby on this page.



Next I go straight in on the inks. I don't pencil that tight for myself, just enough to get the structure down, I want to keep the inking stage "active' and do a lot of my drawing while I ink. I inked with pen first, a Hunt 103, and then went in with a brush, a Langnickle #3 sable



Then it's pretty much straight forward from here, I finish the details in pen and then go in with the brush and fill my blacks, also going over certain lines I initially put down with a pen and BOLD them up to help pull a form forward, or seperate it from the background, etc. I do all the Kirby Krackles with a Speedball lettering pen, a B-6 I think...I look for tangents and to make sure the background and figures read well against each other. Once I am satisfied I erase the page and scan it in to my Mac and clean it up in Photoshop. It's there I add the stars...and I'm done!