Making art
Blog posts about making comic and illustration art. Work in progress, creative process, design, art tools. The works.
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Best Pencils for Drawing Comics
July 13, 2021 | BlogBest pencils for drawing comics might just be whatever you have on hand.
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Paint, Wallpaper, Website Banners
July 6, 2021 | BlogVisual experience of Survival Anxiety comics is improved with new banner illustration art.
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Throwback Thursday! Crows and the Mosaic-Tailed Rat
July 1, 2021 | BlogThrowback Thursday to the first Crows comic about the extinction of the Mosaic-Tailed Rat.
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Making Comics – Imaginary Creative Spaces are Messy
June 29, 2021 | BlogDetail from Pity Party page 3, and a brief discussion of imaginary creative spaces.
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Throwback Thursday! Communication Breakdown
June 24, 2021 | BlogThrowback Thursday to the first full page comic I created, called Communication Breakdown.
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Making Comics – Enter the Ideas Room
June 15, 2021 | BlogDetail of making comics page Pity Party page 3, and a brief description of technical pens.
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Making Comics – I’ve Got a Bad Feeling About This
June 9, 2021 | BlogMore detail from page 2 of Pity Party! Read Pity Party here. I did a lot this week, and this comic is nearly finished. I centred the Ideas Room sign on the door. While doing that, I also changed the style of lettering I used for it. I finished inking almost everything, but the Ideas […]
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A Panel about a Cat and a Printer
March 26, 2021 | BlogHere’s a favourite panel from a comic I drew in 2018 about a cat who loved the home printer. Sometimes I make comics about things that are not sarcastic death, judgemental crows, or a robot and sheep galavanting around the cosmos. Read it here: http://ryanreid.com/comic/hazel-loves-the-printer/ This comic was created in Clip Studio Paint. Look at […]
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Comic Panel of Yesteryear
March 25, 2021 | BlogThis is a panel from a very old comic. I was trying to write a picture book at the time. Someone, somewhere on the net, described creating comics to help flesh out characters, or something, so I thought I’d give it a try. The story ended up being very different from this, and the character, […]