Creating a Comic

January 26th, 2011

For those of you who missed the live stream, here are the videos of the creation of the ‘Squirrel-Chew’ strip, from start to finish. They’re really long (especially the bits where I’m trying to figure out the writing) but if you’re interested in how the comic is made, this has it all!
Note: If it sounds like I’m talking to myself, it’s because I’m answering questions from the live chat stream.
 
PART ONE: Writing and Drawing


PART TWO: Colouring

10 Abominable Comments!

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    January 28th, 2011 at 3:04 pm

    [...] of the time he was drawing in dumbfounded awe.  Luckily, just the other day Karl recorded a Ustream of the entire process from sketching to inking to coloring and put it up on his website.  It’s [...]

  2. Keepingyouawake
    January 28th, 2011 at 4:13 pm

    Thanks for posting this, as it’s nice to watch over the shoulder of someone who’s work you really enjoy. Did you realize the first video ends kind-of abruptly and the second video doesn’t seem to pick up there? It appears we’ve actually missed out on all the shading/coloring before the 2nd clip starts.

  3. rudy
    January 28th, 2011 at 5:10 pm

    Hi. The video is great, but why the second movie is only 5 minutes long, when first has nearly 3hrs? Is it on purpose? I would love to see the colouring work.

  4. cheezedog
    January 29th, 2011 at 1:30 am

    Is anyone having problems seeing the video?

  5. rudy
    January 29th, 2011 at 8:41 am

    I can play the second video but it’s shorter than it should be. At last in my opinion.

  6. karl
    January 29th, 2011 at 5:48 pm

    Whoops! Sorry about the short second video. UStream gave me a warning about file size and something must have screwed up when I stopped and restarted it.
    -karl

  7. Kayla
    March 30th, 2011 at 11:26 am

    It’s really interesting watching your process and seeing that other people suffer from some of the same “bad habits” as me. :P Thumbnails are for suckers with forethought!
    And we use the same erasers, aren’t they great? I think they’re great.

  8. Nitin
    April 8th, 2011 at 2:55 am

    Thanks a lot man for this update!…Inspirational and Insightful!!!

  9. Nitin
    April 8th, 2011 at 2:55 am

    Especially the Sketchbook idea…keeps the desk clean :) !

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    June 15th, 2011 at 10:43 pm

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