Krita is free & Photoshop CAN'T do speed lines

I’m excited to show you these pages coming up. Here’s a little look behind the curtain at the process of drawing one of these and some detail shots. If you’re not subscribed to Rage of Enlightenment, get on there so you don’t miss the pages when I drop them. I mean, who doesn’t want to see how these girls got into this situation?

Final painted textures over the flat colors.

Flat colors are added. I try to mix colors that don’t detract from the inks.

The color in this comic are killer, but my heart will always lay with the inks. The inks are where the magic happens. They’re the main show.

I hated the pose of the rough pencils, so I started over, watched some videos of Black Widows and got a decent composition going. Tightend up the pencils and they’re ready for inks.

Initially, the rough pencils are a placeholder at best. I'm trying to figure out the pacing of the page and a general idea of where the action is in the point of interest. In this example, I hated everything about the rough pencils except for the speed lines, but they were enough to know what was going on in that panel from a story perspective. Which is what I need roughs for.

And now a few detail shots. Don’t forget to head over and read the first 10 pages (always for free) at Rage of Enlightenment.

I used Krita, a free open source drawing app, to get the dry brush on these speed lines. It was a little technique of laying down some thick blacks and then lightly erasing the tips towards the center as they approached the characters.

Look Ma! Halftones! … and some Kyle Webster paint brushes in photoshop…

Don’t forget to head over and read the first 10 pages (always for free) at Rage of Enlightenment.