Roger Langridge's Blog, page 190
March 31, 2016
March 30, 2016
March 29, 2016
March 28, 2016
New Zealand Journal Day 1
I'm currently in New Zealand for some time with my family, so for the next couple of weeks I'll be running sketchbook strips drawn on the trip.
March 27, 2016
March 26, 2016
A Few of My Disreputable Ancestors
Still plugging away at the Clip Studio toys. The first two of these reprobates were drawn from photographs of the gentlemen themselves; the last two are based on photographs of myself, fiddled with to varying degrees. I threw a bunch of the crosshatching brushes at this one, and used the Parallel Lines ruler to assist me with a lot of the shading on the faces.
William Kirby Johnson Langridge drank a bottle of brandy a day, I've been told. He died by walking off the edge of the White Cliffs of Dover.
I should cop to the fact that I'm not sure if it was my great-great-great-grandfather or my great-great-great-great-grandfather who shot the smuggler ("Digby the Pirate", according to family legend). And he only did smuggling on the side; by day he was a magistrate. So that's all right then.
March 25, 2016
March 24, 2016
Our Animal Pals
Today's strip is drawn traditionally (and very quickly).
March 23, 2016
Fargle Bargle
After a couple of days of sticking with what I know (and just trying to get better at it), I thought it was time to try out laying down flat colours ("flats") in Clip Studio (must get used to calling it that) and exporting the file to Photoshop for finishing off; I keep hearing about how Manga Studio/Clip Studio is brilliant for this because it has a feature that ignores line breaks and just fills in the bit you want filled in. My natural style is chock-full of shapes not completely closed, so this sounded like an ideal feature for me.
I (perhaps unwisely) tried drawing this one with a vector-layer pencil tool, to try and get a more organic look, which I think might have complicated the experiment a little. The fills seemed to have very arbitrary cut-off points, either stopping way before the break in the shape or going beyond it and stopping a little way outside it. Really peculiar. I might have a go with something drawn in a more traditional clean-line style to really get a sense of how it works.
Anyway, as first attempts go, not a total disaster, though I'm not convinced it was actually faster than my usual Photoshop method with all the fiddly corrections I had to make along the way.
