Thanks so much for the beautiful work and inspiration . Always fun to watch. 10:36 👏🏽👏🏽

Thanks so much for hanging out ! Have a great weekend. :)@@KruznCasinos

@@SiyaOum Like wise. Hope your weekend is amazing

No problem. Now when you do coloring in Clip. Have you thought of doing the inking there as well? For me it has the best digital ink (the vector based one)

Thanks so much, and for stopping by! Have a great weekend!

Awwww. Glad to help! I will have more process episodes as I move along on Neo Wonderland.

Wonderful!@@SiyaOum

Awww, thank you so much!

Thanks so much!!!

Thanks so much!

Thank you! 😜

Awwww, I hope you guys are fairing okay. We had -30 degrees Fahrenheit this last week. Temperature is going and down, so we have thick ice on the way lol. I'm sure you'll be able to make the Vince once since it'll be about 45 minutes long. :D. Thanks for all your support each and every day! Talk to you soon!

@@SiyaOum Stay warm and drive safe. I'll be there for Vince...no way I'm missing two in a row! ☺

Awwww, thank you so much! I can't wait either, lol

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Thanks so much! :)

We project the Kickstarter will start late spring, early summer because the Lady Mechanika Kickstarter is happening very soon, and we're wrapping that up. It'll be direct to readers at first, then through a publisher. Thanks so much for asking! Have a wonderful weekend.

@@SiyaOum Looking forward to the kickstarter and being able to enjoy this book! How many issues is the story going to entail? Your approach of bringing your readers along for the ride on the creative side of production in these YT videos builds up a lot of anticipation. Its a very smart approach as you get to know your readers and create a loyal following and we get to follow along on your journey so that when we eventually read the book, it is a unique experience. One last thought, it would be very interesting to see your script after the book is released to see how the script translated to the page. Did you do the script differently than you would have if it wasn't you being the one to also pencil, ink, color?

Thank you for this...I don't know if the book would be where it is at, if not for the enjoyable journey with my fans and friends, who want nothing more than to see me succeed for decades. The process is so lonely, if not to share the ups and downs of it all. I write the script as if another artist would have to take over, in other words, a completed script. I will include the script along with the process in the Kickstarter book. My hope is that it will inspire the future generation of comic artists, and ones who aren't sure if they should move forward. Thank you so much again!!!@@johnf6861

@@SiyaOum Happy to hear that yo're including the script with the KS version! (you read my mind!)...very interested to see the interplay between the script and the finished book to see the choices you made in what to include/exclude in the script. I've been working on a screenplay (hammering out the board with different color notecards and itching to actually start writing scenes) and I sometimes think about the choice of screenplay versus comic book script. But, I have to focus one one thing at a time and just enjoy the process of beating out the story and actually writing it in screenplay format before I start thinking of another project or a change of medium! All the best to you as you put the finishing touches on Neo Wonderland!

That was a great move to do a screenplay first if you can, since you're not having to script out the panels as well, and it can be written in prose , how fun!@@johnf6861

Awesome! This is so good to hear, I used Clip Studio, even before the sponsorship.

I know what you mean about digital art looking "soft" by default, likely, because of the basic brushes in Photoshop when someone is starting out. I started out as a digital colorist when I first got my comic gigs, over ten years ago, so coloring traditionally came a few years later. And you're also right, this is cyberpunk so it would be more vibrant and less textured, depending on what's on the page, than my other book "Lola XOXO" which was colored with markers, inks, and watercolors. Also, when pages get printed in comic book or any CMYK format, the colors usually become less vibrant, and darker, so shooting for brighter, more vibrant when coloring in RGB is ideal.

I would still do it in 11x17, to maintain the same levels of detail when it is shrunk to the actual print size.

I think it was four hours, after scan. The printer is the Epson WF-7720. Thank you!

I do both incline and flat. I use my laptop riser to place a drawing board on it and just draw/paint/ink my work, since I no longer have a drafting table in my home office. It does help to draw at an angle, def. worth a try. :)

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Are you calibrating according the the Wacom Cintiq, or your regular monitor? If it is set at REC709, which is a broadcast output; colors usually turn out darker. If you calibrate according to Waco, I feel that it comes out nicer. But you should be able to try out the different options and pick the one that looks right to you.

Thank you for that tip! I'll def try it out with a new piece shortly.

I can understand that! I use as many drawing programs as I can in case I need a specific attribute from each one. I love Procreate!

Same here, kinda. Sketch on paper, ink on procreate, colour in photoshop. Very straightforward 😂

It truly is a software, that when I first started out, couldn't imagine, existing. It's so amazing.

It's great for all those things, I'm just glad it exists! Lol. That blend tool for painting is so FIRE.

I usually color in RGB and then convert to CMYK if the publishers require that on my end. Or, just to have larger access to the colors/filters in RGB. I usually color brighter, knowing it will be converted to CMYK during the printing process.

@@SiyaOum Thanks!

Wacom cintiq 16

its wacom but i dont know what version i just see it on the video hope this help you a little

@@JoblessSon ya I've seen that too thank you, but which model is that?

It’s the Wacom cintiq 16”

yeah, lol. My phone can barely record a dozen videos at this point.

So in what way is this different? What do you mean with unnatural? I have worked both digital and traditional. It’s just tools. Color theory, drawing. Composition etc. you still need to know it. And my ways you work from traditional translates to digital. And no it’s not maybe in calling it art. It’s about the process and that the creation comes from a mind. If it was not art we could not call stuff made with brushes art also. As that is a tool. Then only if you inked with your fingers it would be art right? I mean a brush is quite unnatural right? :)

Have to say I disagree here... It's not like AI where you just say "I want a picture of this", and presto..done! Digital art still requires a myriad of choices and decisions to get the desired look and feel of a piece. It still requires a deep knowledge set of line, shape, color...etc. It's a different medium...but no less an art-form.