Renko ART

Alrighty!

So to make a repeating pattern: 

1. Open a canvas and draw in the center WITHOUT touching any of the edges. 

2. [Below: Light cyan lines] Divide your canvas into four equal parts.

Make four guides framing the canvas, and two across the middle. 

For the ones in the middle, View > New Guide > Horizontal or Vertical for needed orientation > type in 50% to get the exact middle of your canvas. These are photoshop shortcuts, may be different on your programs. 

3. [Above: Yellow arrows] Make sureyou have ‘Snap’ checked under View > Snap, then select each quarter of your piece > layer via cut > move diagonally to the other side.  

After you’re done moving things diagonally, you can either turn off Snap so your doodling won’t stick to the center lines, or toggle the guide visibility off (Ctrl+;). Merge the layers back together. 

4. Draw in the middle without touching the borders, color the entire thing if you plan on doing that.

5. Setting your image as a pattern After your image is done, merge all layers into one > select the entire canvas (Ctrl+A) > Edit > Define Pattern

Open a new canvas bigger than the one you made the pattern on, and paint bucket it in! (Instead of the Foreground button at the top when paint bucket is active, select Pattern then your pattern)

If you aren’t using a program that lets you define patterns, merge everything into one layer and duplicate & tile them manually. 

Se qué es noticia de la semana pasada pero no había dibujado al buen #stanlee por dos razones: la primera porque mi mano me dolía un montón (después d3 la chinga de la doki doki) y la otra porque nunca si bien siempre me ha gustado la voz de Stan y disfrutaba sus cameos como cualquier persona, nunca fui super fan. El año pasado que Stan vino a la @conquemx el año pasado no me interesaba tanto conocerlo como para la cantidad exorbitante que pedían en la convención.

Pero decidí dibujar una imagen en honor a #stanlee95 porque un amigo es muy fan de Stan, y él hizo un podcast al respecto (quizás mi programa favorito). Por lo que si alguno de ustedes les gusta Stan Lee o quieren saber más al respecto les recomiendo oír su video: https://youtu.be/lXAKBojkf2c

These are the brush settings I have found and adjusted myself over the years. I’m pretty sure that the sketch one is just a modified version of makanidotdot’s. I can’t take full credit for them, but I hope they are useful all the same!

this one’s a few days late due to having a lot of doctors appointments sorry it’s  just 9 pages, and about some rats… it’s more symbolic than anything really

What kind of source material?  I’m not sure if you’re asking about art and the comic making process or historical references.As for layout…After I’ve written a first pass of dialogue for a given “chapter”, I start drawing thumbnails to work out how I’m going to portray all of the story content.  As I’m sketching, I’m mindful of things like communicating action clearly, staging and composition, avoiding confusing “camera angle” changes, and page flow (generally top left to lower right). I tend to do a lot of dialogue editing in tandem with this to get the words and images to work together as well as I can manage too.  The whole idea is to do a quick and dirty version of each page that you can experiment with, toss out or revise as needed before dedicating vast swathes of time and energy to pencils, colors and polish.I’m by no means masterful at layouts, but I feel I’ve improved a lot since I began.  As with most things, doing it is probably the most effective way to learn to do it.Below is a sample of the thumbnails I used as guide for the final art layout for all of the early pages of Volume 3. (I had cleaned these up to share with Patrons a while back, so this looks deceptively neat. My thumbnails are often even looser than this, covered in scribbled out panels, arrows rearranging the order of events, notes about dialogue changes and other such messiness).