The Salty Sugar
Here's a panel from my comic of Seaweed's boat the "Salty Sugar". I start with a rough, do a tight pencil in blue, erase the hell out of the tight pencil, and then ink it using Pitt artist pens. I use a combo of the superfine size, the brush size, and some fine detail with the Micro 005 pen. I'll do the color in photoshop but I'm not at that stage yet. The boats parked at Dock #94 for all you fellow nerds out there!
posted by Ben Balistreri @ 12:43 PM
25 Comments:
Ben, this is amazing. I don't know why, but i look at first and saw a stop motion series, humm ? maybe ?
awesome! i can't wait to see this book finished and have a copy in my hands!
Love your line work. Your character designs look great! Hope one day soon you can work with my comic book characters. I think they will need a redesign for a TV cartoon. Check out my blog.
the time you take shows through in your work. lovely
Great stuff. I love how it has that European comic book look to it, those are my favorites. The Ninja guy is awesome too, nice silhouette!
Hans
Nice to see a "sharkmouth" on a ship, for once ,Ben ;) !!
GeeBee "Flying Tigers fan"
Thanks everyone!!!!!!
Tancredo- Oh my god, I would love to do this story in stop-mo! I actually told my buddies that over lunch 4 years ago when I started this damn thing.
Tom- I can't wait for you to have a copy in your hands and your money in mine! Ha! Ha!
Jeepers- Your blog looks great! I'll definately check out your comic when it comes out.
Lafe- That's very cool of you to say! Yah, it sure is taking a long time, but I'm glad you think it shows.
Hans-European comics are my favorite art form as well! Franquin, Uderzo, Didier Conrad, etc. etc. Breathtaking! Check out Jean Barbaud's blog (linked on the side) for some more cool French comic love!!!
Clark-Thanks! More $ for me! Now if I can sell 4998 more I'll break even!
GeeBee- God I wish I had your ability to characture planes!! I'm sure you could have drawn this tug-boat WAY better then me. If I ever get a series sold I'm hoping I can hire you to design for it.
hah nice! i picked up on the 94 reference. dig it man!
You are my favourite. That looks amazing.
THis is awesome!! great to see the progress!! THe K-swiss below is amazing too!
this is really great, i really look forward to the book. this is gonna kick ass!!
I really enjoy your line quality! I have to some of those Pitt pens too.
Yeah that line is amazing! Great solid, dimensional drawing!
Great work you Star Wars nerd! ;)
takes one to know one Marmax! Any one who gets that reference is my kinda people! Cheers!
Beautiful job Ben, I love seeing the process from rough to clean. But really man oh man I can't get over how clean and tight that is in the final inked version...Its just wow....its great to see, as so many artists now avoid inking traditional (I'll admit that includes me...)
Superb stuff as always! and as always I want to see moooooreeee!
LOL Hah! Dock #94, just noticed that now! Good place to take a rest.
The studio (A-Film) I worked at in Copenhagen before moving to the states, just recently finished "Asterix and the Vikings" and from what I've seen so far, it looks awesome. I hope it makes it to the states at some point.
Take care and have a great weekend:)
Hans
Thanks everyone,
Hans, yah, Asterix and the Vikings looks great! I've watched the trailor and really hope I get to see it at some point.
This is brilliant!
Awesome staging and comp !!!
I'm a nerd and I get it, great stuff dude!!!
Super awesome.
Cheers,
Milenko
...er, ummm... that's beautiful!!!
AWesome Style and inking!!
Wow, what a great layout. Thanks for sharing the process.
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