Dr Muscles cover

Look how shiny it looks! Cover by James Brunner. Dr. Muscles Journal One will be available on September 15th on http://www.boguspublishing.com/. It features the first 5 issues of Dr Muscles (Issues 1 and 2 were already available), including issue 4 (which I've coloured) and issue 5 (which I have drawn, inked & coloured.) Can't wait!

Colouring Dr. Muscles #4

A couple of days ago, I finished colouring Dr. Muscles #4 (drawn by António Brandão and written, as usual, by Austin Tinius.) To colour it, I adopted a method used and described by Alison Bechdel to colour Fun Home.

I printed the inked pages in double copy on a normal sheet and used one copy as background layer. On it I stuck a Fabriano 4 rough sheet, and coloured with watercolours on it with a light box. In previous situations, if I coloured directly on inks printed on a rought sheet, I had found out that watercolours often were repelled by the printed inks (as if there was a slight film on the ink that prevented them to be touched directly by colour.) So I decided to colour without any kind of immediate ink, keeping them as a background lightened by the light box.

This process lasted some two hours. When the watercolours were dry, I scanned the page and edited it with Photoshop. This time I added the inks on the colours as a layer set in Multiply. I adjusted contrast and layers settings, adjusted the colours, and everything else that was needed before reaching a result I was pleased with.

The Photoshop process lasted another two hours, more or less, including cleaning the spaces between the borders and so on. 

Dr. Muscles should go in print next week. Stay tuned!

The Legend of Bael the Bard

Above, a fanart I managed to squeeze into yesterday's routine - Brandon Stark finds that Bael the Bard has stolen his daughter, for the Legends of ASOIAF monthly theme on valyrian-forged.

Apart from that, daily routine means that I'm colouring the 4th issue of Dr. Muscles, which should be ready by the beginning of September. Haven't had much time to work on other projects, unfortunately - but In Absentia and other pages are still on my check list.

Dr. Muscles preview

Page 4 of the comic I'm working on, Dr. Muscles #5 by Austin Tinius/Bogus Publishing. I should finish this issue in a couple of weeks, hopefully.

Fanart Friday: Liberty Meadows

An homage to Frank Cho's fabulous Liberty Meadows, which I've recently read.

My project wasn't unfortunately selected for the Reality Draws contest. Oh well. I'm going on with Dr. Muscles #5 - 10 out of 22 pages have been coloured, and I pencilled 5 more pages during the last week.

From Dr. Muscles #5: Scavengers character design

So this is what I'm working on at the moment: volume #5 of Dr Muscles, by Austin Tinius. This is the first time I drew something like anthropomorphic animals - this whole story is a new challenge for me! Stay tuned.