{"id":2004,"date":"2010-12-11T13:06:08","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T18:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=2004"},"modified":"2019-11-25T16:44:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T21:44:14","slug":"the-boaring-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2010\/12\/11\/the-boaring-details\/","title":{"rendered":"The BOARing Details"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here’s the pencil sketch of the boar character (sorry – I haven’t named him) from our most recent installment of Monkey & Bird.<\/strong><\/em><\/a> It was done in a wire-bound sketchbook with a indigo blue mechanical pencil which I wrote about earlier.<\/a> After that, I scanned it and inked it digitally using Photoshop and a Wacom tablet.<\/p>\n

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I’d like to be one of those guys that did a gorgeous penciling job on a big sheet of bristol, but being that I do the scanning and lettering and Tina does the colors and patterns, I can be a little more loosey-goosie.<\/em> Most times I do a sketch in the old sketchbook in the quest for a gesture and\/or expression, and I’ll find that I can’t improve on it any. I’ll draw it over and over but there will be a quality about that one sketch I can’t recapture. What I do is scan the sketch and place it into a file with the other elements of the comic page. In other words, I cobble it together. It works for me. I hope it works for you.<\/p>\n

Check out the adventures of Monkey & Bird<\/strong><\/em> HERE!<\/strong><\/a> New to Monkey & Bird? <\/strong><\/em>Go back to where it all started HERE!<\/strong><\/a><\/em>
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Here’s the pencil sketch of the boar character (sorry – I haven’t named him) from our most recent installment of Monkey & Bird. 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