I've been spending most of the past week doing research on tablets and programs to get the digital side of the studio together, I've settled on buying the Manga Studio 5 program over photoshop to get started. The initial start up to buy photoshop is prohibitive right now and since I'll mostly be doing comic work Manga Studio is the best priced program for my needs.
Next I bought a lightbox, something I should have built at the Theatre Passe Muraille shop years ago but live and learn, it's a standard size and may take some getting used to but for reproducing sketches I have to have it.
The final piece was purchasing the Wacom Intuit Med. Size tablet for drawing, this is going to be a huge learning curve and I'll be posting a lot of my progress here, even though you may find it boring to read I'll be using the blog as my own cheering section.
When not reading and researching I've been drawing lots of mugs like the guy you see at the top of the page, he's one of the cast of characters who occupy "Gull City" which is where "Homeless G-Men" takes place, the second comic "Squirleycorn" also takes place is Gull City but is a story solely about animals.
I'll be using the models that I build over at "Any How Town" (see sidebar) for references as I draw "Gull City" they are an invaluable asset and I thought it was a strange way to approach drawing the comic until I got to David Petersen's blog, he's the artist who created "Mouse Guard" a fantastic comic about knights who are mice. He also builds models for things he needs, his blog is excellent and I want to take this time to thank him for keeping such a detailed record of his process.
I figure this weekend I'll head down to the studio and reconfigure it to hold all of this robot machinery, it's going to be a great learning experience, 2014 is all about doing new things, quitting smoking, running a 10km, playing the guitar and learning to use technology to advance my work.
Head over to the mad craft shoppe blog (see sidebar) to see some paintings, which is how I subsidize this new project.
cheers,
A.Shay Hahn
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