Practicing some comic skills with Scott Pilgrim

What's up everyone?!! Cobmaximus here enjoying some time off from work, doing what I've been loving to do, drawing comics.

I know my comics are not the best, and that there's still a lot to learn along the way. But how can someone get better you ask? well the only way is by practicing. What better way to do it than by drawing some comics I love.

One thing you will start figuring out the more you draw is that you will start developing your own art style. I know my style is cartoonish. One artist I really feel identified with is Bryan O'Malley. He's most known by his graphic novel Scott Pilgrim (or at least I think so).

So for today's post I wanted to share with you a Scott Pilgrim comic page I tried to re draw with my style. By re drawing one comic page I can practice different things that I find difficult to come up with on my own. It's a good skeleton to use. As you can see, the comics don't line up exactly the same, and that's because I'm trying to re draw it from sight, not just drawing on top of it.

Try this out, I found this to be very good for looking out on the details, as well as drawing hands and shoulders. Also facial expressions and playing around with eye shapes (or at least the ones I like to do).

My Take on Scott Pilgrim's Comic

Original Comic

Source

I wanted to explain a little bit the different layers I used, but at the end I messed it up and merged a bunch of them together and now it looks kinda messy haha, but let's give it a shot

Frames

First things first right? this is an easy one, you just copy the layout of the page.

Sketching

This is where I messed up. First I started sketching with blue pen the very basic shapes to draw. Then, supposedly, in another layer, I roughly sketch with multiple lines how I want to see the details.

Inking

Now here's where I make clean lines of the comic. I also use others layers for extra fine details and shadows.

Text

Finally, I add any text that the comic has in a vector layer.

And that's the comic there :D. The whole process took me two days, or around 5 hours maybe... which some of them I was watching "The Matrix" on another monitor lol.

Let me know your thoughts on this comic page. Would you also like to try it out? maybe you can try this same page or maybe you can try a different page. If you do try it out, tag me out and also use tag #steemit-webcomics so I don't miss it out :D!

Remember, I'm running a Discord server and also a Facebook group with @jonathan-greer, in case you want to join and we can talk about webcomics and even collaborate to make ones.

If you also like to make webcomics or comic strips, you can use the tag #steemit-webcomics and help support the community by upvoting and resteeming.

Until next time!

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