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Ooo thats so good!!

Ok this is extremely underrated. You my friend, have a new subscriber

Great

Your videos and shorts are all very good. You do excellent work!

Chris is so motivational all his art just pops and comes with a different type of energy. Had to look up who did all the men apocalypse books I grew up on! I'm getting back into drawing and he's def a artist I look up too

Very good fantástic 👍

Oh wow, you actually convinced me to try out a brush, and see how it goes, though im still terrified of mistakes, compared to doing it digitally

Not bad

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Definitely looking forward to watching the full video of this!

Ooo that’s cool! You are sooo underrated! :D

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Beautiful work. Very inspiring video, Thomas. Thanks for presenting this!

Great comprehensive inking video tom!! 👍👍

Instead of a maru pen + fountain pen, why not a Gpen from the beginning ? You would have thin/ thick lines variations.

dude's a legend

Same inking can be done with the pen but it would just take more time.

you are amazing teacher , besides being an awesome artists :)

the longer my lines need to be the more sporadic my line weight tends to get, so the nikko mapping pen is good to counteract that for me.

Neat tip about the smudging tool. John Paul Leon was another amazing Toth-influenced artist who did amazing spotting blacks. I saw his “magnum opus” Winter Men, was turned into a limited artists edition. Would love to see that book in person, bet its gorgeous. Great video and cool commission!

Very informative, thank you.

Thank you for your Amazing Video Thomas can you make one of your thoughts about coloring in images or how which colors work better together again thank you 🎨🖌️

Wow, that was great: ) So cool to see the close-ups of you inking, and esp. getting the super tactile feel. That scratching sound was oddly meditative too. Ha ha. What was really cool to see was how much you made the nib-inked version pop by just a few accents w/the fude pen! That was like a magic trick. What exactly are you thinking about when you make those kind of choices, to make an accent here rather than there, and then BAM, it's done? That was fantastic. It made me love that version the most. The variety of textures was so subtle that it made the drawing seem suddenly alive.

Thanks, Thomas. This is arriving to me at just the right time in my artistic growth process. Your explanation of each process is helping me be clearer about what my tasks are at each step of making a comic.

Big hug from Brazil

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Wow i like this

And cool music

This is MASTERPIECE !

Muito bom

Pretty Epic!

Nice

I have no trouble spotting blacks…

In my case, time is a problem. I work sanding all day and when I get home, I don't have too much time to draw. Getting the final pencils fast is always a problem. I had to educate myself to sketch first, specially now that I'm doing pencils for my next book. It's frustrating erasing more than drawing but I understand your point and agree. Great video. See you on the next one. 🤘

For me, working digitally is incredibly freeing. Working on layers, scaling and erasing is so easy I can quickly experiment with compositions before getting into the details.

I'm doing my graphic novel in B&W, because a huge part of why I got interested in making comics was B&W underground comics from the 80s, up to and including the original Mirage TMNT comics. Yet after all these years I'm still hesitant to fully commit to giant spot-black areas, so crosshatching/feathering/black-spotting is still used very sparingly in my stuff. I've had people compare my stuff to Moebius and Geof Darrow (the highest compliments I've ever received) but I still want to get bolder with my black spotting. Frankly since I work digitally I have no excuse not to experiment, and this video has given me a bit of a push to try getting bolder with it.

For me best black and white comic artist is alberto brechia

I really agree with him. Ive drew alot of my manga with no coloring but it still looks alright without the coloring😅😊

Very good interesing.👍👍👍

Spotting blacks has been my major gripe because I want to make my art pop out more. Thank God for this video!

Great video tom! Your editing skills have improved a lot! Keep up the good work 👍👍

Your illustration reminds me of Jordi Bernet's Torpedo

Very helpful. Thank you for this, really gives me a strong retrospect into how comic artists would use darkness, shadow and light to create strong effects for depth and light of their fabric or clothes. I also love Alex Toth, Frank Millers Sin City, Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece, Yuichi Kumakura’s Jing King Of Bandits manga series And Matt Lesniewski of Faceless And The Family. Also how do I know how much shading to put on their face, I feel it’s good to have some shading but also believe that it becomes to tedious to focus on so much shadowing on their face.

Hey, you made a short out of that one point I found very useful in your video. Sweet! Hope others find it as eye-opening as I did. It was an incredibly helpful observation.

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” - John 3:16 God bless everyone here. Jesus loves you and died for you on the cross. He did this to wash away the burden of sins, and if you open your heart to Him, He can take away the burden of your sins and give you a peace incomparable to anything in this world. ✝✝🙏

Great video. Thanks. Can I ask who is buying pictures of Peggy Carter though?

What brand / model of Pen were you using for the black shading?

Wow, I was looking into that Sailor 55angled fountain pen the other day they have aslo another that is at 44 angle. I got into ink 2 years ago. Before that I was painting with color, oil/acrylic mostly commission work always. Started with Mangaka nibs (Gpem, Maru, Saiji, school, map, also lettering), I thought this is the BEST thing for inking. No not for me. my hands hurt due hard pressing i rarely use them now. Tried the Pentel Pocket the tip is way too soft and very hard to control imo (gave it to gf). Recommendations to all. I have 2 ink penbrushes from Pentel that I like more XFL2L(medium) and XFP5F(fine) I love them both. Also come with a learning curve. I use real brushes also sometimes it's much easier to use brushes with ink. For finer and more detailed work if you are trying to get that brush stroke I use and recommend Sakura BrushPen really excellent brush tip that bends like a real quality brush, . For super, tiny details Sakura Pigma FB & Uni Pen FineLine Brush for me these 2 feel exactly same in quality and feel Uni Pen is slightly thicker and costs less both feel like markers that bend. Extra extra tiny details Tombow Fudensoke Brush pen this is like 0.1 tip very tiny (not waterproof). UniPen surprised me with quality, its same as more expensive Kuretake, Sakura, Tombow and Pentel. I want to get more fountain pens because they give me the best feel when drawing. Also sturdy, iridium tips, many different colors and rechargeable (ink cartridges are easy to replace, refill & with some nibs you can use acrylic ink. I even saw Fountain Pen with G-Nib).I recharged that Pentel Pocket for gf, many times so far, used Sumi Ink with a bit of water, also Indian Ink(waterproof).