Thank you so much to those who came by to check out our booth at the bazaar, it was a really nice experience to come out to the Expo Center, and I will let you guys know when and where I will be next!
Author: Katherine Dattilo
We’re Making a Graphic Novel!
***UPDATE***
Chapter One is out now, available for purchase on Amazon as a paperback, and a digital e-book for Kindle as well! Keep a look out for Chapter two, it’s in progress right now and will be out soon 😀
My very good and massively creative and talented friend Lisa Mitrokhin and I are making a graphic novel! You can see bits and pieces of it being painted on my twitch stream, and here’s a little blurb from our star, as well as a sneak peak at our process! There will be much more news to come, but we are keeping things quiet for now 😉
Tools
As of March 2018,
Currently using:
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Wacom Cintiq
Adobe Photoshop CSS. I’ve moved the small monitor over to the right, but otherwise this is how I work.^_^ There’s usually a couple of mugs of coffee around, a big, fluffy, napping poodle right behind my chair, and even more plants! I rotate them so they all get the chance to grab some sunshine 😉
Before my wonderful hubby gave me this beautiful new beastie, I was using a small Wacom Intous for the past many many years, also a fantastic tablet 🙂
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I also love to use physical mediums, I particularly like ink, colored pencil, and watercolor. Here’s what Igenerally have these close at hand:
Daler-Rowney FW Liquid Acrylic Ink,
Fudenosuke Brush Pens,
Pentel Fude Brush Pens,
Copic Multi-liners,
Microns,
Ballpoint pens,
Prismacolor col-erase Pencils,
Bic Mechanical Pencils,
Faber-Castell Polychromos,
Derwent Watercolor & Inktense Pencils,
Prismacolor NuPastels
Community Links!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/KatherineDattiloArtGroup/
https://www.facebook.com/KatherineDattiloArt/
https://www.twitch.tv/katdattiloart
twitter.com @KatDattilo
https://www.youtube.com/katherinedattilo
https://discordapp.com/invite/VgrzmAH
Animorphia Cheetahs
No video on this one, just done for fun one day, I think while I was still working on the toucans! I always seem to have a couple pictures going at the same time..
Ok, so months and months ago, I did a very thinned out layer of watercolors as a base.
When I picked it back up in June, I switched over to just using faber-castell polychromos. Working with such crazy colors, I was fairly sure I was on the right track, but decided to take a picture with my phone, and de-saturate it to check the values. This is a handy thing to do when you are just not sure about something you are working on, just simplify it, and decide what needs to be adjusted.
Finished out the coloring, then put in a soft chalk pastel background, sprayed fixative, let dry, then put in some highlighting with a white posca pen. This paper is entirely too big to fit on the scanner, so here’s the compiled scan, made from 6 different scans!
Animorphia Coloring Book, Toucans Process Tutorial
First video tutorial that I made, sped up! Also, I am so, so sorry.. the camera work is…. well..not great. But hopefully you can learn a bit about my process, and have some fun watching 😀
From start to finish, this took sometime between six and seven hours… Here it is, compressed into a nice, neat, 25 minute chunk!
Much thanks to Kerby Rosanes, the illustrator who made this amazing book.
