Weedle with a dose of free Pidgey as it fends off an oncoming attack. The digital-ish, 8-bit background effect for the grass just happened that way, I didn’t plan it but I like it a lot.
Ink on paper
Color in Photoshop CS4
-RD
Pokemon is © 2010 Nintendo
Original Art is © 2010 Randall Drew
Yes…it was super long and super annoying to draw those trees as many times as I did. Still, the effort payed off and the bottom tier of panels really weigh down their airiness. A successful, emotionally driven couple of pages! Now, let’s turn it!
Ink on Bristol board.
-RD
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I really just wanted to mess around with Photoshop filters and effects with this one, but ended up going really minimal with them and using a Warp Transform on the background more than anything else. I promise the next one won’t be so Photoshop-y.
Ink on paper, Colors in Photoshop CS4
-RD
Pokemon is © 2010 Nintendo
Original art is © 2010 Randall Drew
Intense Metapod is Intense! GO METAPOD GO!
Ink on paper
Colors in Photoshop CS4
Effects in Manga Studio 4
-RD
Pokemon is ©2010 Nintendo
Original art is © 2010 Randall Drew
These next two pages were created much the same way I inked most of Arcadia; with a Japanese G-nib. Fortunately, it turned out to be PERFECT for what I needed to do here; Increase the space (even though, technically this page is supposed to still be at night) and leave room for the emotional heft to weigh in the air, and also to give some great detail to the fir trees.
Ink on Bristol board.
-RD
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All Rights Reserved.
The idea with this page was to show the pivitol event of the 4-year war touched on in Arcadia: the Silver clan betrays the Black clan and joins the Arcadian army in a siege of the Black side of the battle field in front of Alexandria’s gates. I’m not entirely sure if I pulled it off, but I feel the key elements are there, and the motion through the page makes sure you at least see them.
Ink on Bristol board.
-RD
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All Rights Reserved.
Another page I’m very thrilled with. People had some major complaints about the tree in the lower tier bleeding into the Arcadian soldier’s armor in the middle teir, and I see their point. Next time I’ll be more careful about that kind of placement. I love the texturing I was able to do with the brush on this page.
Ink on Bristol board.
-RD
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All Rights Reserved.
That big middle panel was supposed to have the internally-opposing armies of the east assembled to agree to a truce to fight the common enemy in the west…but I apparently forgot all about it!
Ink on Bristol board.
-RD
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All Rights Reserved.
I got a mixed bag of praise and criticism for the layout of this page. I guess from a purely visual standpoint it can be hard to tell where to go, but that’s why I let the text do it’s job and lead the readers eye to the next landmark. I hope it was successful enough.
Ink on Bristol Board.
-RD
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Between the creation of the two stories that make up this book I had made some significant changes to the way I thought about and actually created my comic pages. The biggest change was the commitment to the Brush as my primary inking tool. I began inking this story from the middle and worked my way towards the ends, and I did this first page second to last. I feel this is one of the best-rendered pages in the whole of the comic.
I also made a very different approach to the way I was going to tell the story of this part. Where I went into Arcadia with the idea of having an omniscient narrator, or even full dialog, I came at Daikogen as a silent comic. This allowed me to focus on telling as much information as I could about the story/world/character with actions, which as we all know speak louder than words. It wasn’t until my final critique session before Thesis was due at CCS that I was told it needed just a little more, and I added again the omniscient monologue. This monologue of course is much more simple, fluid and not as heavy as in Arcadia.
I’m very proud of this part of the comic and hope to improve even more as I work into the first chapter of the true story arc.
Ink on Bristol board.
-RD
Citadel is © 2010 Randall Drew
All Rights Reserved.
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