Monday, November 5, 2018

November 5th, 2018. Project: Make A Webtoon

So I started the third page and realized that the reference image for the main cast of characters was drawn in my grade eight year. They look terrible, so I had to redraw them, that took some time. Too much time actually so I settled for redrawing the first 2 who would be appearing in the comic. The first one was easy but on the second one I got caught on drawing the hand, hands are the worst to draw. I did it though, just a sketch of the characters.

Once I finished that I started on the third page. Firstly I did a rough sketch. Then I did another sketch, I did a fine line version next. After that I decided to try something new, for the first bit of the story I want everything to be in black and white. I've never done this before, I had a couple of options to fill the empty space. I ended up deciding to use tone layers to do the "colour" for the first chapter. This works by right clicking the layers, creating a tone layer, and adjusting the settings. I also used a selection layer to specify the tone location. Up close it just looks like a bunch of black blocks, at a distance it looks like a grey.

I also used the air brush tool to add depth and eye bags.

I started to upload the pages to Webtoon in a project draft, when I previewed it though I realized the start was a bit too sudden. So I added another page at the beginning, just black with the chapter title.

That's all I have time for today, tomorrow I'll add another image to the fourth page.