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Description Hey everyone! Have a tutorial! Enjoy!
It's pretty big...so it may take a while to load^^ I cover everything...I think. Yes.

It takes me, on average, 6-8 hours to make a strip. Sometimes longer because I can be REALLY picky with certain things, especially with the line-art. So it varies-- also this had a far less complicated background, so that cuts down time considerably!


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Comments: 316

keiross In reply to ??? [2009-02-13 19:10:23 +0000 UTC]

This is what deviantART is all about.

This made me feel all warm and fuzzy.


Thanks for sharing. Really awesome work too.

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Ashwings In reply to keiross [2009-02-14 14:56:36 +0000 UTC]

Awww^^ You're very welcome!

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Gwydeth [2009-02-13 19:08:26 +0000 UTC]

I need this for when i go digital. :D
congratulations on the DD, this tut is very helpful.

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yoshii15 [2009-02-13 18:58:43 +0000 UTC]

Wow, thanks so much for sharing! I was actually just considering making a comic!

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bartoszf [2009-02-13 18:56:32 +0000 UTC]

Fantastic!

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KakashiMorph In reply to ??? [2009-02-13 18:34:43 +0000 UTC]

That really helped a lot! Thanks for sharing!

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yuki-of-tyris01 [2009-02-13 18:33:25 +0000 UTC]

That is cool! How and where did you get the 3D modle? Fav+

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Ashwings In reply to yuki-of-tyris01 [2009-02-14 14:57:44 +0000 UTC]

Oh! It was one of the ones it came with, I just messed a bunch with the dials and face...uhh things? To make it look how I wanted *nodnods*

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yuki-of-tyris01 In reply to Ashwings [2009-02-14 18:52:04 +0000 UTC]

XD all I have is a Bamboo! OH! I just became your fan on the Zombie Hunters. XD it's funny and sad at the sametime XP

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Saari [2009-02-13 18:28:41 +0000 UTC]

Yeah! I'll fav that one for future looking.. might come in handy

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JadineR In reply to ??? [2009-02-13 18:14:01 +0000 UTC]

Wow, such a great tut! And with pretty art, to boot Thanks!

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626elemental [2009-02-13 18:05:03 +0000 UTC]

Thank you for making this! It is very nice to see your process

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Birdee-Blake In reply to ??? [2009-02-13 17:43:52 +0000 UTC]

I'll have to come back to this later on, if I ever get around to drawing any of my comics XD. This is quite useful~. Congratulations on the DD~!

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itsNateKelly In reply to ??? [2009-02-13 16:51:30 +0000 UTC]

wow cool!

btw, how hard is it to create figures with that "poser 7"... like, do i need to know anything like "blender3d" or something like that?

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Ashwings In reply to itsNateKelly [2009-02-13 17:50:41 +0000 UTC]

Nope! I don't use that. Hahah I just kinda make the manikins look like the characters and then I pose em

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itsNateKelly In reply to Ashwings [2009-02-13 23:25:30 +0000 UTC]

oh cool

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silverroses222 [2009-02-13 16:49:57 +0000 UTC]

OMG this is really what people need!
and all questions answered!

i'll download this so that i can read it over and over again cuz there's so much to learn from this tutorial alone!

this is the best tutorial i've seen on dA ever...

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somelatevisitor [2009-02-13 16:45:54 +0000 UTC]

Do you use just one single layer for the persons' colours? I mean, skin, hair, clothes, shadows - all in one?
Isn't this tricky?

Oh, and BTW what do you need your wacom tablet for? Just filling in colours?

I draw and scan just like you, this works the best - although i think i could use a cintiq if it weren't that expensive
oh and I couldn't do what you do because of a horrible lack of patience. Analogue colouring is much quicker as far as I am concerned; but I prefer plain pencil.

great work!

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Ashwings In reply to somelatevisitor [2009-02-14 14:59:36 +0000 UTC]

Hahah yeah I do it all on one layer haha, I just color everything in by hand I guess that makes me terribly old fashioned or something!

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somelatevisitor In reply to Ashwings [2009-02-14 22:18:55 +0000 UTC]

that's simply cool not old-fashioned at all; when you use too many layers, everything slows down terribly (although I suppose you have tuned your imacs RAM to what's-the-maximum 4 gb?)

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blifaloo In reply to ??? [2009-02-13 16:28:21 +0000 UTC]

now my problem would be drawing that damn well.

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DonaldPipowitch In reply to ??? [2009-02-13 16:20:53 +0000 UTC]

What? What? That's just to great!
Awesome tutorial and great comic. Very inspiring. I wish you a lot of success with your comic!

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RoboCAT58 [2009-02-13 15:58:41 +0000 UTC]

very helpfull Thanks !

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zJoriz In reply to ??? [2009-02-13 15:56:22 +0000 UTC]

That stroke layer effect is handy! Didn't know that one. Thanks

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MithriLady In reply to ??? [2009-02-13 15:32:43 +0000 UTC]

helpful and clear, thanks!

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jasperfox In reply to ??? [2009-02-13 15:13:25 +0000 UTC]

Very informal

Thanks for sharing it with us 8D

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blacklady666 [2009-02-13 15:10:54 +0000 UTC]

Congratulations

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RadioactiveArcade [2009-02-13 15:01:11 +0000 UTC]

What, Photoshop did you use?

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StormyZoonoc [2009-02-13 14:56:14 +0000 UTC]

Your Mac... It's my dream computer! @_@

This is an excellent tutorial. I've been looking for a good one like this for a while. That's good that you've shown us to make a rough draft paper before making the page. I've noticed a lot of people doing that recently with their new comics, and it makes for comics with poorly developed stories.

Thank you so much for sharing your techniques with us!

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Trotun [2009-02-13 14:52:30 +0000 UTC]

wow, this is the first tut I've seen that shows how to make your own bubble from scratch...I keept forgeting what multiply does. But your tut is helpfu. =3 I plan to practice my coloring skills and this helps with than greatly. ^_^

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petit-piccolo In reply to ??? [2009-02-13 14:51:10 +0000 UTC]

a lot of hard work
admire

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tenko72 In reply to ??? [2009-02-13 14:41:29 +0000 UTC]

This is so thorough. I like!

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Darkspine-Eggman [2009-02-13 14:33:02 +0000 UTC]

Very useful. Thank you!

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neener-nina In reply to ??? [2009-02-13 14:02:19 +0000 UTC]

Wow, and here I thought you used painter throughout because of the pencil like lines in your work!


Turns out you use real pencils XD

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Ashwings In reply to neener-nina [2009-02-14 15:04:39 +0000 UTC]

Hehehe! Yesh! The mighty pencil

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hanzoushinrei In reply to ??? [2009-02-13 13:45:00 +0000 UTC]

You use Poser 7 as a pose reference too? Yeah, it's really useful.

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Weswolf27 In reply to ??? [2009-02-13 13:29:37 +0000 UTC]

It looks very useful, I like it a lot hope to be able to learn from this.

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Sherby-me [2009-02-13 11:56:02 +0000 UTC]

Thanks for putting this together. I love reading TZH.

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BeAt-Of-My-HeArT In reply to ??? [2009-02-13 11:30:12 +0000 UTC]

Great tutorial! I'm sure this would come in handy!

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Rickbw1 [2009-02-13 11:28:50 +0000 UTC]

Congrats on the DD

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lilac-lemur [2009-02-13 11:23:49 +0000 UTC]

Actually, a lot of the same tricks work in older Photoshops (way back as far as 5 at least...)...

Nice and useful...

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NEOkeitaro [2009-02-13 11:23:45 +0000 UTC]


thank you
This is really awesome. Now all I have to do is to learn how to draw

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Bebecca In reply to ??? [2009-02-13 11:14:55 +0000 UTC]

Nice!!

XD

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MachinesBleedToo In reply to ??? [2009-02-13 11:10:57 +0000 UTC]

Oh wow that's really helpful, squeeee. I had a comic for a while and had a hard time because the pages took so long...how long do these take you? and how often do you create the pages? Like on a weekly basis or what?

Thanks for sharing. :3

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Ashwings In reply to MachinesBleedToo [2009-02-14 15:05:43 +0000 UTC]

I try to put out every page by 12am every Monday xD

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MachinesBleedToo In reply to Ashwings [2009-02-14 21:43:29 +0000 UTC]

I've found I can't stick to deadlines like that...I have to draw a tonne of pages, and then start posting them by a deadline, so I have lots backed up.
I really like how the start of your comic is like a movie. Where'd you get that idea? Would you mind if I implemented it?

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Koskish In reply to ??? [2009-02-13 11:00:41 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much for this! It's an awesome lot of help!

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sarroora [2009-02-13 10:52:35 +0000 UTC]

Looks very neat! Thanks for making this!

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Man-i [2009-02-13 10:02:34 +0000 UTC]

wow good work

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Shinigami-Oragami In reply to ??? [2009-02-13 09:55:35 +0000 UTC]

^T^

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