I read somewhere this week that an art blog should be more than just re-posts of images available elsewhere… Good idea, I thought. Here’s a look into my process on one of the pinups that I’m working on. I try to spend about 1 or 2 hours in the early morning doing vector drawing every [...]
Now we’re getting somewhere! It only took a couple hours to flesh this page out and get it ready for production. I’m using lots of tricks here that I learned on Brian Denham’s site. If you’re drawing in Illustrator, make sure to check it out. Unlike him, I draw using the pen tool, but stuff [...]
It’s taking longer than I’d like, but this page is coming along. Illustrator has eaten the file several times, so I learned to store lots of versions. Not a problem really, because Illustrator files are tiny–even complex ones like this. I’ve got all the panels drawn in, with varying degrees of detail. Next step will [...]
Here’s some progress on that preview page. I’ve set up and rendered the basic scenes in Poser. I’m using Poses from this new Kung Fu! set that I bought on Renderosity. For the pagoda scene, I’ll base it on a stock photo. Now that this stuff is in place, I can start drawing with vectors.
Welcome to the first part of series of posts that will document creating a sequential page for the comic. This page is going to be added to the preview comic. It needs to establish that our ninja Odjiakori is a badass. I need to get away from pinup-style pages, so it should follow a traditional [...]
Sometimes real life gets in the way of comics… And that really ticks this guy off. More to come.
Yes, we have been on an unexpected hiatus with Ankhammentu, but there is plenty more to come. Between Joe’s technical difficulties, my wife and I adjusting to life with a newborn, and the fact that this is strictly a free time undertaking for both of us, nothing much has gotten done over the past month [...]
Just checking in from the road. I’ve been out of town for a few days and away from my Wacom tablet, so I’ll I’ve been able to do is rendering. The good news is that I’ve made some progress on page 6. This is what the rough rendered versions of the page looks like. I [...]
Ankhammentu.com is the home of the somewhat-defunct web comic of the same name. More to the point these days, it's the art blog and resource site of crazy vector artist jwebster45206.
We believe our other contributing author is lost somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle, but he is much happier now.
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Hey, is anybody out there? There’s been a serious lack of postings here lately, sorry about that! I temporarily lost my inspiration… but I think it’s back now. The good news is that I’ve learned a lot of new tricks in the past few months. It blows my mind that a year ago I thought [...]