Minauld makes an awkward entrance. Our new foils aren’t exactly rolling out the tea and biscuits…
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A cross-post from The Process Diary – new workflow using GIMP and Sketchbook Pro. Relevant to this blog, as it shows you a neat behind-the-scenes of how I created the previous page. It’s about 50 minutes, and the HD file is a hefty download (around 300MB+).
Hopefully you’ll gain something from this video, and have something to comment on. I am refining the process still, but it’s a good start!
Yes the next page will be late again… but this time, I have a great reason! As some of you know, I have been plagued by a techno-curse in which all my gadgets, tools and devices have been raptured away to Silicon Heaven. As a result, I’ve had to replace my macbook, monitor, and now having no money left to replace my desktop computer, have had to come up with ingenious work-arounds to compensate and keep on going.
I recently had the good fortune of interviewing a fellow Illopond artist, Lee Wiley, about his current graphic novel project, Expiration Date. In the interview, he described his method of work to me, incorporating both Photoshop and Sketchbook Pro. I was fascinated by this. I use GIMP (ok, so I dabble in photoshop for work) to produce Pandeia but I’ve never been a fan of it on the Mac. The main issue I have is that it requires X11 to load, and that does not have a good relationship with my Wacom tablet.
However, Sketchbook Pro does.
So I substituted Photoshop with GIMP, exported the template file as a psd (yes, you can do that in GIMP!) and opened it in Sketchbook pro. All the layers were preserved, and I could sketch away! I’ve recorded my process so far, and as I complete the page, I will keep recording, and then post a demo video some time next week for you all. Here is where I am at so far:
It will make more sense when you see what was done in SBP and what was done in GIMP (hint: the borders and layers were in GIMP, the sketching done in SBP) but I thought I’d share my progress so far.
