Kazu ([info]boltcity) wrote,
@ 2006-01-24 02:36:00
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Current mood: tired

Making of Copper
This took me a while to put together, so I am posting it all over the place. Time to shleeeep...



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[info]kaeze
2006-01-24 11:23 am UTC (link)
hey kazu,

i really enjoy your work, especially daisy kutter and flight 2 last year. and i love looking at these process stuff and seeing how other artist do their work. very much appreciate you putting this together.

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[info]boltcity
2006-01-24 08:33 pm UTC (link)
No problem!

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[info]rikkisimons
2006-01-24 11:57 am UTC (link)
That's a nice clean coloring process.

-Rikki

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[info]mistressnashya
2006-01-24 01:26 pm UTC (link)
That was really nice! I'm amazed you get such clean inking lines with a crow quill. I might have to invest in one of those!

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[info]boltcity
2006-01-24 08:33 pm UTC (link)
And they're really cheap too!

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(Anonymous)
2006-01-24 03:48 pm UTC (link)
wow..thanks kazu! That was amazingly informative and entertaining. I enjoyed that. I would love to see something like this for Flight. Maybe your next Flight cover? ;)

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[info]boltcity
2006-01-24 08:31 pm UTC (link)
Haha, I'm a lot less confident when it comes to doing the more rendered stuff. Maybe someday I'll attempt a step-by-step for one of those, but I imagine someone like my friend Khang would be a lot better at it.

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[info]verabee
2006-01-24 04:53 pm UTC (link)
Wow, you hold your pencil in a mangled claw! Do you have a weird bump on your middle finger?

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[info]boltcity
2006-01-24 08:32 pm UTC (link)
Heheh. I also hold my chopsticks with a "scissor" technique. It seems I just don't do ANYthing the proper way.

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[info]debbiehuey
2006-01-25 12:37 am UTC (link)
YEAH! I use the scissor technique with my chopsticks too!! My parents never taught me right!!

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[info]monstro
2006-01-24 06:14 pm UTC (link)
Holy, are you ever fancy!

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[info]music_slut
2006-01-24 08:34 pm UTC (link)
OMG kazu you are like so super awesome!!!1! i wanna be just like you when i'm all growed up!

ps, i want to have your babies.

:P

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[info]boltcity
2006-01-25 02:03 am UTC (link)
Mmmm, Keanbabies.

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sheesh, man!
[info]lx
2006-01-24 09:08 pm UTC (link)
Am I the only sucker in the room that dropped the grand on an 11x17 scanner? (Irony: I went all-digital after acquiring my little 4x5 Wacom shortly after the scanner purchase. D'oh.)

Thanks for putting that up, in either event.

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[info]boltcity
2006-01-25 02:04 am UTC (link)
I'm thinking about purchasing one of those things. The one I want is over 2 grand, though. Hmmm...

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[info]lx
2006-01-25 02:11 am UTC (link)
Wow, really? What's it do for the extra cash?

FWIW, this one (Microtek Scanmaker 9800XL) is the one I got, and it seems to work pretty quickly and the quality seems right on. Too bad I never use it.

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Re: sheesh, man!
[info]boltcity
2006-01-25 02:23 am UTC (link)
The one I've been eyeing is this one:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002LC9TC/qid=1138155721/sr=8-6/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i6_xgl23/104-3484026-8719947?n=507846&s=electronics&v=glance

Ever since I used the large format Epsons at an architecture firm I worked, I've always wanted one. Is the Microtek fast? And are you looking to sell it?

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Re: sheesh, man!
[info]lx
2006-01-25 02:42 am UTC (link)
Having gone from using an old 9x12-in-six-scan-passes the same way you described to a single scan, it sure seemed fast when I switched over to it. Sadly it's not even connected right now so I can't run a test. I might do so later after I get through the work phase of my day.

I might be interested in selling it, though I'm up in Portland -- I think I still have the original shipping packaging, though. I'll have to check with another friend who inquired about acquiring it.

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(Anonymous)
2006-01-25 03:48 am UTC (link)
I had an HP 11x14" scanner for the longest time, probably 7 years, until I bought a G5 tower which couldn't accept the SCSI card needed to hook up to the scanner. Then I sold the G5 a year later. I did not go all out on a new scanner, but instead just bought a little canon letter-sized dealy. Kinda wish I still had a mondo scanner, but i don't know it'd be worth the money to me right now.

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[info]azzamckazza
2006-01-24 10:29 pm UTC (link)
Thanks for this Kazu...always good to see how others do their thang.

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[info]tihii_omut
2006-01-24 11:26 pm UTC (link)
Woah, excellent tutorial O__O Thanks!

Question: in the "Process" section of Daisy Cutter is says that the pages for it were filled with flat colours. I thought the book was b&w to start with--is there a colour version out there somewhere?

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[info]boltcity
2006-01-25 02:05 am UTC (link)
Oh, my bad. There are no actual colors in Daisy Kutter. I've written a new Daisy story, though, and it's in colour. :)

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[info]nabbit
2006-01-30 11:10 am UTC (link)
This is fascinating stuff. Cheers for going to the trouble. I only recently discovered a lot of webcomics - I saw your stuff in the webcomic book. Some of the best stuff in that book was the process stuff.
D'you know - some guy challenged me in a shop about the way I hold a pen. I was validating the back of a cheque and he made his daughter come and look. "look" he said, "this man holds a pen like you do, so he does it wrong as well!"

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[info]yfrontninja
2006-03-08 08:52 pm UTC (link)
I really enjoyed this. Thanks for sharing your intimates!


Also, I am blown away that you work in such huge sizes! Blown away.

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Thank Kazu.
(Anonymous)
2008-03-26 11:12 am UTC (link)
Dear Kazu, My name is Kaije Armeña, age 15. Illustrator, writer, blogger. I am Japanese Filipino, http://kaijestudio.deviantart.com/ http://www.myspace.com/kaije_armena/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaije_armena I'm so 15.

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