Woolly on a rabbit - illustration from the sequel of Woolly Wonderful

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To bridge the gap between the published first issue of Woolly Wonderful and creating an engaging story, I used the time to draw some sort of concept that I imagined for a second issue.

I tried a slightly different process this time (compared to the one I explained earlier), to find out if I could save some time in the comic page creation.


woolly wonderful complete comic page illustration
complete illustration

Usually after the pencil stage, the inking will be done, either over very detailed pencils or rougher pencils, depending on the artist’s confidence. But ink will not give you any variance in tone like pencils can give you.

Thus, some artists only have a pencil stage and darken the pencils afterwards to make them more stand-out. Any thin or weaker lines will still be visible with a still lighter tone and might give it a bit of a rougher finish to it. This indeed can help to make the art appear less digital. 


woolly wonderful sketch of main characters
sketch



woolly wonderful comic pencil stage
pencils complete


woolly wonderful page with shadows
pencils with shadow layer



The picture in general has more of a children’s book feeling about it, especially through the lighter background outlines. It also helps to set the main characters apart from the environment.
It certainly saved me time by skipping a whole pass of an inking layer.

Still 8.5 hours were required haha, though there was some experimentation involved.
Would you be interested in a process video? Let me know.

Have you read my Woolly Wonderful comic #1 already?

That's it for now, hope you enjoyed what you just saw. Until next time.

Andi Pasti





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