Sketches and Inks for Page 6 of Issue 2

Here are the sketches and Inks of Page 6. I finished this page pretty quick and even messed with some line styles in the inking phase. I'm hoping I can finish the pages faster now that I have a sense of how long things will take with each page.

For those of you who are worried that all of Issue 2 is going to be just wrestling, it's not. There will be a lot of added story along with the fights. I plan to have a new format of telling the story, starting with this issue. The format will be more like a wrestling show with little stories in between each of the wrestling matches to help develop characters and plot lines.

Later

Nightmare Pro Wrestling Issue 2 Page 4 Inks

Here's Page 4 of Nightmare Pro Wrestling Issue 2. The page came together really quickly during thumb nailing the whole fight. Pretty fun action here on this page. My favorite has to be panel 5, with the Jolly Roger elbow dropping Chickgan. I hope the whole fight sequence in the next few pages comes out as well as I think it will. Alright, well check back on Friday, I should have the inks and rough sketches up for page 5.

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Nightmare Pro Wrestling Issue 1 is done.

I'm finally done with Issue 1 of Nightmare Pro Wrestling! The first issue has been a great learning experience for me. When I read through all of the pages I saw a lot of ways that I had grown as an artist and I'm proud to have something tangible to show for all my effort.

I have to give a quick thank you to the guys over at Art and Story, Chris Oatley, and the guys at Big Illustration Party Time. Without their influence and inspiration I would have never taken that big step to just go for it and do the comic.

And I also want to say thank you to everyone who reads Nightmare Pro Wrestling. The comic was just an idea in my head for such a long time that it's really great to know that there are people out there reading and enjoying it.

Maybe it doesn't seem like much but finishing this issue is a really big deal for me. To anyone out there who has something that they want to do but are afraid to take that next step, just jump in. It feels great.

Cheers.

Nightmare Pro Wrestling Issue 2 Page 1 Inks.

So this is my second and I feel better try at Page 1 of Issue 2. Unfortunately, I was unhappy with my first design of the this page and was in such a hurry to correct it, I forgot to save the original design and the roughs of both. Won't happen again.

The original image on panel 1 had the Nightmare Tortoise turned a lot more to the right. It looked way too ordinary and being the biggest panel on the page, I wanted something a bit more dynamic. So I turned him a bit and did a upshot of him, with the results looking a lot better.

The concept of the Nightmare Tortoise is that he carries Nightmare Castle to the next location that Nightmare Pro Wrestling is supposed to have a show. He tends to destroy cities and things along his journey but the monsters in this world don't really care because Nightmare Pro Wrestling is such a big and important part of life here in this world.

Alright, I will hopefully have the roughs and Inks up of Page 2 up on Friday. I should be starting them today.

Cheers

Nightmare Pro Wrestling Page 32

Page 32 sketches and Inks. I've been finding that sketching out the page on the computer also has the benefit of me feeling more free with my sketches. This allows me to be looser and I think my final inks benefit from that. I don't know that it would work for everyone but it's really working well for me.

I was a little worried about how this page was going to come out, due to lack of sleep the night before. I did get a little frustrated when some panels didn't come out the way I wanted. So I stopped what I was doing and took another stab at the page the next day. When I tackled the page in the morning, things just came together. I erased what I didn't like and I ended up with another page that I'm very happy with.

NPW Comic Page 30 sketches & inks

Page 30!! Oh wow, it feels nice to say that. Not that I hate doing the comic or anything, it will just be nice to be done with Issue #1 and moving on. I'm excited about the story lines I have planed for the first story arc. Take Issue one as a pilot episode, since I was still developing what I wanted during its creation.

Page 30: I've had the idea for this page in my head for a while now. It's nice to finally see it as a page. I took a quick short cut in panel 1. I couldn't get Milky Roach to look right, so I just scanned in an image I already had of him and touched it up. Saved a lot of time.

You will also notice no real speed lines yet. Lately I've been adding those in after the paints, so I have a better idea of how they will look when the image is completed.

Alright gotta get started on painting. Check back Friday to see page 31 Sketches and Inks.

Later.

Nightmare Pro Wrestling Webcomic Page 28 roughs and Inks

So you might have noticed that the "pencil" page doesn't actually look like I did it with pencils. I ran out of pages in my sketchbook and decided to try sketching out the page straight onto the computer and I had an epiphany. Sketching straight into the computer saves me from having to draw out each panel, scan the pencils into my laptop and fit the page together.

Maybe that doesn't sound like a very long process, but it is for me anyway. This way is a big time saver and I really like the way it looks. I think I've finally perfected the line style I want for the comic.

I have also started finishing one page entirely, from roughs to paints and then continuing on to the next page. This has been a lot more efficient for me instead of penciling two pages, then inking both pages, then coloring both pages.

With the last few pages I've been experimenting a lot with different inking and coloring styles and methods so now that I've made these discoveries I'm hoping I'll be able to update a lot more often.

Thanks to all for reading,

Cheers.