An article about graphic novels and the major impact that Will Eisner’s “A Contract with God” had on the genre. From the San Francisco Chronicle.

It reminds me I need to read this book again…

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This is my work process, shown with a panel from the graphic novel I’m working on. It shows the sketch, the lettering and then how I start coloring by adding a gray tone over everything, before blocking in the colors and then, in the last two panels, I show how I add light and texture to finish it off.

It’s all done in Corel Painter using a Wacom Cintiq 21UX graphics tablet (as usual).

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A panel painted in Corel Painter X, using a Wacom Cintiq 21UX…

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Here’s a new panel from the book I’m working on, featuring a green hippo…

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Here’s another finished panel from my current children’s book project. Sketched and painted in Corel Painter X.

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Here’s another little update on my current project. Sketched, lettered and painted in Corel Painter X using a Wacom Cintiq UX21.

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Just some more stuff I’ve been working on lately. A few panels from my book…

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I’m trying something new for my book, painting the pages with textured borders. I wasn’t too happy with the way the inked and Photoshop colored ones turned out. So instead I’m painting the whole graphic novel in Corel Painter, using the Wacom Cintiq 21UX graphics tablet. Click on the thumbnail to see a full view of this page.

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I just finished a major milestone on my graphic novel for kids. I have a few pages all finished up. Here’s a small sample. Sketched, inked and lettered in Corel Painter X, colored in Adobe Photoshop CS2.

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I’m really hard at work on my book, so there’s not much time for anything else nowadays. I’m getting really into it, and I’m especially enjoying working on the Cintiq.

One of the huge advantages I’ve found in recent weeks as I switched from using an Intuos tablet to the Cintiq, is how much more accurately I can draw now. I save a lot of time not messing around and drawing very precise lines instead. Here’s another panel…

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