Turtle Turncoat

Tony Day · 01-13-2012, 11:29 AM

Sorry about this long winded answer... here goes...

Hi Redeemer.

Yes I am the artist but I also created the story for Turtle Turncoat. I got Alan to take over from Part 2 onwards (and a bit at the end of part 1) as he’s a much better writer than me. If you glance through part one you’ll see it’s littered with silly swear words and brilliant scripting such as "Hey guys! Come on" etc.
I and Alan decide where the stories going and he figures out all the details and writes all the dialogue. Once he's scripted it he sends it over by email:

What I do: Once I get the script I sketch out on a single piece of A4 (29cm - 21cm) paper the layout. It’s very rough at this stage. I then put the dialogue into the right places. After that I get a sheet of A3 paper and sketch out the panels, changing them for the best composition (hopefully

).
I then draw the construction of the characters’ in tube, sphere and cube shapes. After that I flesh them out into their characters. I then tidy all of it up for inking.

I use Pilot DR drawing pens (No longer use brush and ink) to do basic inking. The lines have no character. This is to match the 80s cartoons style rather than thick and thin brush stroke inking that's found in comic books. I shade nothing. After that I rub out the pencil and scan it at 400dpi as black and white.

I then bring it into Photoshop and proceed to colour it. This bit takes frigging ages as there’s always gaps in my line work. So it’s a case of filling, closing a gap, filling, gap, etc etc. I use 4 shades of colour. The main colour, 2 (or 3) levels of dark and 1 level of highlights. After that is done I put in the speech bubbles.

Finally I resize the eps and save as a jpeg. bring it into dreamweaver and upload to my website. The whole process can take anywhere from 8 to 11 hours.

Hope that answers your questions mate.

Laterz
Tony

www.trydowave.com

01-13-2012, 11:29 AM	#11
Tony Day Stone Warrior Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Indiana Posts: 559	Answer :) Sorry about this long winded answer... here goes... Hi Redeemer. Yes I am the artist but I also created the story for Turtle Turncoat. I got Alan to take over from Part 2 onwards (and a bit at the end of part 1) as he’s a much better writer than me. If you glance through part one you’ll see it’s littered with silly swear words and brilliant scripting such as "Hey guys! Come on" etc. I and Alan decide where the stories going and he figures out all the details and writes all the dialogue. Once he's scripted it he sends it over by email: What I do: Once I get the script I sketch out on a single piece of A4 (29cm - 21cm) paper the layout. It’s very rough at this stage. I then put the dialogue into the right places. After that I get a sheet of A3 paper and sketch out the panels, changing them for the best composition (hopefully ). I then draw the construction of the characters’ in tube, sphere and cube shapes. After that I flesh them out into their characters. I then tidy all of it up for inking. I use Pilot DR drawing pens (No longer use brush and ink) to do basic inking. The lines have no character. This is to match the 80s cartoons style rather than thick and thin brush stroke inking that's found in comic books. I shade nothing. After that I rub out the pencil and scan it at 400dpi as black and white. I then bring it into Photoshop and proceed to colour it. This bit takes frigging ages as there’s always gaps in my line work. So it’s a case of filling, closing a gap, filling, gap, etc etc. I use 4 shades of colour. The main colour, 2 (or 3) levels of dark and 1 level of highlights. After that is done I put in the speech bubbles. Finally I resize the eps and save as a jpeg. bring it into dreamweaver and upload to my website. The whole process can take anywhere from 8 to 11 hours. Hope that answers your questions mate. Laterz Tony www.trydowave.com