Dylan Teague's Drawing Board

Manga Studio stuff...

2012-02-10T17:18:00.001-08:00

Eva

2012-01-04T17:35:00.001-08:00

Mathilda

2011-11-03T17:01:00.001-07:00

Bishop

2011-10-19T14:24:00.001-07:00

Invisible Woman (not being invisible)

2011-10-16T12:33:00.001-07:00

Sketches

2011-10-13T07:51:00.000-07:00

Sorry for the lack of updates, haven't been doing too much sketching lately. Here are a few some of them probably too sketchy to put up.

Honey Dorian (Rip Kirby)

2011-08-24T12:35:00.000-07:00

Another commission, supposed to be Honey Dorian (from Rip kirby) but I think I've made her look a bit too contemporary and a bit like emma frost.

Preacher Trio

2011-08-17T08:35:00.000-07:00

Johnny Alpha

2011-08-12T11:24:00.000-07:00

Another commission this time for Neil Sambrook. It features in my guest post for Scotch Corner Blog

Cassidy

2011-07-23T12:50:00.001-07:00

Tulip

2011-07-20T13:50:00.000-07:00

Another commission.

Jesse Custer

2011-07-18T15:25:00.001-07:00

Another commission for Ian Leonard

Saint of Killers Commission.

2011-07-02T12:24:00.000-07:00

Here's a commision done for Ian Leonard.

Sketching

2011-06-01T12:30:00.000-07:00

Bristol Sketches

2011-05-16T12:49:00.000-07:00

Had a great time at Bristol met up with a load of cool comics people and sketched solidly for two days! Here are some of them, think the Juno and Winona Ryder pic are my faves even if the likenesses aren't too good. A big thanks to everyone who wanted one.

Bristol, prints for sale!

2011-05-11T10:34:00.000-07:00

Thought I'd do some A3 prints of some of my favourite sketchbook pages for Bristol con this year. I'll also be sketching both days. See you there!

Manga Studio and sketch

2011-05-09T17:11:00.000-07:00

Really trying to do everything in Manga Studio. I still can't quite get it to the final stage though. Think it's that MS or the Cintiq (or probably me) still aren't quite accurate enough for inks. The last 2 panels are me really trying to take it to the last stage but they just look too heavy and clumsy in places. I'm going to print it out blueline and ink by hand.

And a sketchbook page too....

Digi Painting and Sketchbook stuff

2011-04-17T14:11:00.000-07:00

A couple more bits. Started another digital painting may take it further at somepoint.

Digi Painting

2011-04-01T11:26:00.001-07:00

Really want to get better at digital painting, think I have quite a way to go. Never really learnt to paint by hand have only really done it with copic markers and always over lineart. This was based on a pic of the girl from Breaking Bad. I've added a texture layer at the end and also did a quick unsharp mask filter to define the strokes a little. One thing I've noticed is that it's even harder to know when you're done than lineart!

Red Nose Day Monster.

2011-03-18T14:54:00.000-07:00

Here's my Monster for Jamie Roberts 24hr monster draw thing for RedNoseday you can bid here

Commissions

2011-03-14T14:44:00.000-07:00

Still available for them if anyone would like one.

Just had an email asking for one but it went into my junk folder and got deleted If it was anyone out there get in touch again and I'll let you know the details.

dylan_teague@hotmail.com

More Sketchbook stuff.

2011-03-07T07:11:00.001-08:00

Haven't posted much for a while so here are a few pages and a couple of life drawings.

10thology Step by Step

2011-03-05T11:36:00.000-08:00

Here's a breakdown of how I did the 10thology pinup.

I based it on an old sketch. I scanned this in and quickly worked up a background in Manga Studio. Using the concentric circle and one point perspective rulers this was a doddle. I printed the whole thing out in a light orange as I wanted to try and replicate my sketchbook style and see if I could take it on to a slightly more finished look. The drawing went quite smoothly but I messed up the face a little. I drew a new one and patched it in in photoshop. I also went back to Manga Studio to do the spaceship. I set the greywash drawing layer to multiply and coloured underneath. I didn't add the spaceship till last and coloured it on a new layer.

Cardiff Comics Expo

2011-02-19T12:28:00.000-08:00

Here's a couple of sketches I did today at a preview for the Cardiff Comics Expo. It's on next Saturday and I should be there all day sketching. Ticket sales have gone really well so they may do a 2 day event next time.

Captain America Commission

2011-02-13T10:05:00.001-08:00

and the rest of that room...

2011-02-06T17:56:00.000-08:00

Even More Sketchup

2011-02-03T05:36:00.001-08:00

More Modelling

2011-01-31T17:14:00.000-08:00

10thology Sneak peek

2011-01-26T09:18:00.000-08:00

Little bit of an illo for the 10thology comic. Due to be released at the Cardiff Comic Expo this February.

sketchup models

2011-01-23T16:48:00.001-08:00

Building models for my new book. Here's a couple of one of the characters room. Not sure whether I've gone ott with the window frames or whether to leave them simple.

Drawing Demo Vids

2010-12-06T03:08:00.000-08:00

A couple of vids of me trying out a Wacom tablet mod made by Lez Wright. It's pretty good and works out quite a bit cheaper than the real thing. You can find out more here. The Jedi one has come out a little dark but you can see the pic at the end of the video.

Sov Judge

2010-11-22T02:20:00.000-08:00

Deckard Commission

2010-11-21T07:05:00.000-08:00

And another one.

2010-11-08T06:05:00.000-08:00

Not quite sure why I'm doing these but they're fun.

Sketching again...

2010-11-04T03:21:00.001-07:00

The rest of that page.

2010-11-01T03:54:00.001-07:00

Ended up doodling over the rest of the page.

Little Sketch

2010-10-28T02:40:00.001-07:00

Quinch

2010-10-27T02:58:00.000-07:00

Another commission, still taking orders if anyone fancies one. £50, p&p free!

More Sketching

2010-10-24T11:15:00.001-07:00

Sketchbook Stuff

2010-10-19T04:23:00.001-07:00

Here's some sketchbook stuff, plus a couple of the sketches done at Birmingham. Had a great time there, sketched pretty much constantly both days. The web address on the top sketch is from one of the people I did a sketch for I've just drawn around it.

*edit* found a couple more sketches on line. Anderson and what's supposed to be a Red Sonja had no idea what her costume was so I just made something up.

Meat page 9 process

2010-10-05T04:54:00.000-07:00

Another page from Meat almost done every one now.

I think I did the rough for this straight in Manga Studio, can't find any little thumbnails in my sketchbooks anyway. Just went in and sketched away then put on panel borders and perspective grids to match what I'd sketched.

The first panel was pretty straight forward so I just loosely did some blue pencilling and inked straight on top of it same went for pans 4 and 5. Panels 3 and 6 needed a bit more work so I pencilled them pretty tightly and inked using the blueline method mentioned in earlier posts. Panel 2 was a re-use from an earlier page. I decided to render that whole page greyscale it was supposed to make the whole colouring process go smoother, it didn't, I'll go into that a bit more when I do a step by step on that page.

Next up are the inks pretty self explanatory on this one, though I did decide to make panel one a full bleed panel also I inked some building silhouettes with the hatching brush in Manga Studio.

Colouring, same as usual though I did recolour the re-used panel, keeping it all red made colourising the greyscale simpler and I think it looks more effective than the original panel. I used a technique of adding some extra shadow to the last panel by colouring the whole panel normally but then on a new layer set to multiply I added a dark green and then lowered the opacity.

Oh yeah, the guy kneeling down touching the blood wasn't in the script, I imagined him as some sort of psi judge who could touch the leftover bits from an accident and kind of tap into what happened, forgot to put any psi logo on him though so he probably looks a bit weird.

Life Drawing

2010-09-28T06:39:00.001-07:00

Just a couple scanned from A3 sketchbook having trouble getting my Mustek to pick up any of the lighter shading. Going to have to try and find a better setting so I can scan some more in.

sketching

2010-09-21T02:26:00.001-07:00

Robots

2010-09-17T02:40:00.000-07:00

Trying to come up with some robot designs

SJS Judge Quincy

2010-09-16T02:30:00.000-07:00

He shot Dredd through the head in the Judge Cal story.

Johnny Alpha

2010-09-15T04:55:00.001-07:00

Really enjoyed doing this one, onto an SJS Judge next.

Cover Colouring

2010-09-14T02:18:00.000-07:00

First up are the colours to the John Romita Jr piece. This was quite a fun one to colour, I've always liked his stuff especially on a Daredevil year one book a few years ago. It was done in pencil with the bulk of the shading already worked out. I turned them into a multiply layer and coloured underneath added some textures and shadows to the bg. I like the way the lettering has been done to fit in with the style of the pic. I'll stick up the Cliff Robinson ones in a bit.

Some More

2010-09-13T03:09:00.001-07:00

A Couple More...

2010-09-10T02:06:00.001-07:00

£50(p&p included) if you want one. Any character you'd like.

Commissions

2010-09-08T03:41:00.000-07:00

Here's a montage of some of the commissions I've been doing, still available £50(includes p&p) if you want one.

Sketching

2010-09-02T02:55:00.001-07:00

All for charideee.

2010-08-31T16:15:00.000-07:00

Spent a bit of time doing some sketches for Draw The World Together at the last Bristol con. All the artists did some extra sketches in between sketching for people and they're now all up for auction here here's my one. Bid away it's all for a good cause.

More Sketching

2010-08-16T02:58:00.000-07:00

More sketching, top left face is from ref the rest are made up. Made the eyes look a little wonky in that first face.

Character Designs 2

2010-08-12T06:09:00.001-07:00

2 posts in a day!!

Sketching From Photos

2010-08-12T02:38:00.000-07:00

Going to try and do this a bit more regularly. I think you learn a lot from it and it'll, hopefully, improve my faces done without ref.

Character Designs

2010-08-10T05:48:00.001-07:00

Rose is back!!

2010-07-27T03:36:00.000-07:00

Here are a couple of Rose O'Rion pics for a short story by Rose O'rion co-creator Kek-W for Zarjaz a 2000ad fanzine. Was really good fun drawing her again maybe Tharg will commission a new Rose strip in the future, would be cool :)

Stuck up another commission piece too £25 plus p+p if you want one.

Another Page Step by Step

2010-07-20T05:49:00.000-07:00

Here's another one, still a few left. A bit spoilery this one but there's been a couple of Megs since so hopefully it's ok.

This done much in the same way as the other pages but on this there's quite a bit of digital inking done in Manga Studio. I tried something a little different and pencilled the page at print size. I took it into MS and inked it tightening up as I went along. In some ways it was good as I could leave a lot of things looser than I normally would and I could also sort out the perspective in MS. There's still something a bit odd about digital inking though. I think because you have to work a bit more zoomed in so that the accuracy of the tablet/cintiq works better you kind of lose that sense of how much detail is needed. When working on paper you kind of build up a sense of what will and won't work for reproduction. I was quite pleased with how it came out in print though as I think it was quite hard to tell the digi from analogue inks. Maybe with a bit more practice it will seem more natural, I hope so as there are a ton of advantages to going all digital. Oh yeah digi panels are pans 1,2,5 and 6.

Sketching and another commission

2010-07-12T15:24:00.000-07:00

Some more sketches and a Black Canary commission. email me if you want one £25 plus p+p for something similar it's A4 size.

Another Page Step by Step

2010-06-15T03:25:00.001-07:00

Here's page 3 from Meat. Same process as the earlier pages. On this job I really tried to leave as much as possible to the colours. Usually I like to use a lot of black in my stuff, it can hide a load of mistakes :) I'd like to get back to using more black at some point though, hope I haven't forgotten how.

Sketchbook stuff + a con sketch

2010-06-02T02:38:00.000-07:00

Here's the usual random sketchbook stuff and a con sketch that I didn't have time to do at Bristol for Paul Trimble. There's also a little Manga Studio doodle there too.

Really enjoyed Bristol con this year was very relaxed and the weather was great. The Megazine was out there and it was great to see Rob Williams see it in print, especially as he seemed quite pleased with it :) When the Meg's been out a bit longer I'll do some more process posts on the other pages, going to milk that strip for all it's worth!

"meat" page 6 step by step.

2010-05-26T03:58:00.001-07:00

The first pic is the thumbnail from my sketchbook. I changed my mind a bit on the first panel and did another little sketch along side. I scanned them in and added panel borders and perspective grids in Manga Studio. I can only find the top bit of pencils but you can still see the perspective grids from MS on it. I think I may have skipped the re scanning bit on the bottom half and just inked straight over tightened up bluelines. The latest Meg is out now so go buy it!

New Header

2010-05-21T04:28:00.000-07:00

god that was a pain to do wish I knew a bit more about html...

Bobba Fett Sketch

2010-05-20T02:10:00.000-07:00

I'll be at the Bristol Expo this weekend, should hopefully find somewhere to sketch on both days, see you there!

More Manga Studio Roughs

2010-05-17T03:25:00.001-07:00

New Dredd Film

2010-05-12T02:18:00.001-07:00

My Dredd cover (with colours by Chris Blythe) up on Aint it Cool News site to promote the new film! check it out here

Manga Studio Sketch

2010-05-01T03:53:00.001-07:00

Sketching

2010-04-26T02:10:00.000-07:00

Oxford University Press roughs

2010-04-20T06:56:00.000-07:00

Done in Manga Studio, with the layer set to greyscale.

Step by Step

2010-04-12T05:54:00.001-07:00

Seeing as it's not out for another couple of months I thought I'd do a step by step of one of the panels from the Dredd strip I did recently with Rob Williams.

The first stage is the tiny thumbnail from my sketchbook. I do the whole page very small and loose I'm probably the only one who can tell what's going on. I scan this into Manga Studio and then use the panel cutter tool to panel up the page. Then I may do a little bit of drawing, in MS, to make things a little clearer. I'll also put a perspective grid on. I still try and keep everything very loose at this stage as I like to print it out blue and do the pencilling on top.

Next is the pencilling, I've removed all the blue from this so the perspective grid isn't too visible any more. I then scan this in place it into the right panel . I'll do this with each panel on the page. Then convert the whole lot to blue and print out ready for inking...

Then to the last stage. I scan in the inks and put them under the panel border layer I created in Manga Studio. Then I colour the whole thing in Photoshop.

Sketching + an interview

2010-03-29T05:58:00.000-07:00

Here's some more sketching and a link to an interview I did recently here with Lex Castanheira.

Sketching

2010-03-10T03:54:00.000-08:00

Tweets

2010-02-11T07:26:00.001-08:00

You can follow me on Twitter here http://twitter.com/DylanTeague

Diamond out today!!!

2010-01-20T02:01:00.000-08:00

http://www.amazon.fr/casse-Diamond-Christophe-Bec/dp/2756014125/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263980777&sr=8-2

Sketchbook

2010-01-12T01:46:00.000-08:00

Here's some of the usual sketches plus a quick re-working of Rose O'Rion. Going to do an illo for an upcoming short story by Kek-W for Zarjaz.

Cleanup Job

2010-01-05T05:11:00.000-08:00

Another panel from upcoming strip, love doing sci-fi backgrounds :)

Another Step By Step

2009-12-29T04:32:00.001-08:00

Diamond will be out soon! so here's another step by step.

I mixed up the way I did pages on the book quite a bit. This page was done by working on an A5 template of the page. I printed out quite a few of these so I could sketch down ideas while going through the script. I then did my usual method of blowing up to artsize printing out in blue and tightening up, then printing bluelines of the pencils and inking. Dunno what happened on this but for some reason my brush was working great doesn't happen often but it was a real joy to ink.

colourised sewer

2009-12-18T07:44:00.000-08:00

Digi Grey

2009-12-05T12:08:00.000-08:00

One more, trying digi greyscale now as it's a bit more controllable.

Trying something new

2009-12-03T06:35:00.000-08:00

Trying out some different techniques on the Dredd strip.

Oi!!!!

2009-11-30T01:41:00.000-08:00

Spaceship, type thing.

2009-11-24T01:42:00.000-08:00

More colour experimenting...

2009-11-13T08:34:00.001-08:00

Life Drawing

2009-11-12T06:22:00.000-08:00

Colour Test

2009-10-26T03:43:00.000-07:00

A little experiment, trying to make my computer colours look a bit more water colour like.

Step by Step

2009-10-16T08:48:00.000-07:00

Here's a step by step for one of the pages in Diamond.

At the top is the initial rough for the page. This is what I'd send in for approval to the editor and writer of the book. They wanted a few changes to this one as it wasn't looking enough like a French album page. The first change asked for was to pull back a bit in panel one so that you could see full figures of both of the characters and also more of the surrounding room. The biggest change needed was for the last 2 panels. They wanted to see much more through the window and to really get across the feel of the surrounding village. At first I misunderstood this a little and sent my second rough showing a lot more of the bedroom, d'oh. The next stage is my pencils which have a sketchup model for the bus put on, I've started using stuff like this quite a bit.

Anyway this ended up being one of my favourite pages from the book and I'm glad I was pushed to change it quite a bit.

All images copyright Bec/Teague/Araldi/Delcourt

Another Sketch Post

2009-10-08T04:03:00.000-07:00

A selection of random heads...

Sketch Post

2009-09-29T03:28:00.000-07:00

Woohoo!! Finished Diamond!

Here are some sketches with a little promo done for fun.

Diamond

2009-09-09T05:15:00.001-07:00

Well, this is what I've been working on all these past months, 3 pages to go now. It's scheduled for release January 20th. I love how the colours have come out on this thanks to Christophe Araldi and Xavier Basset for a great job! Thanks to David Chauvel for being a brilliant editor too! This and all the other pics I've posted relating to Diamond are copyright Delcourt and the authors(me and Christophe Bec). Over the next few months I'll stick up some more teaser panels and some process stuff relating to the pages.

Sneak peek panel

2009-08-29T06:18:00.000-07:00

Sketches

2009-08-18T02:38:00.001-07:00

Trying out a bit of red marker on these two.

Back to Orange

2009-08-03T03:14:00.001-07:00

blue pics

2009-06-29T10:44:00.001-07:00

Not much time for sketching at the mo here's a few warmups though.

Mini Update

2009-06-07T12:14:00.001-07:00

Here's a few Sketchbook pages, I'll try and do some more process stuff at somepoint in the future...

Roughs to Inks

2009-05-20T07:38:00.000-07:00

Here's the initial rough done in ps and based on a tiny pencil thumbnail I do in my sketch book. Then the pencils and inks. I changed panel 1 quite a bit and shrunk panel 5

alien thing

2009-04-18T16:12:00.000-07:00

More Sketcbook Stuff

2009-04-08T06:53:00.000-07:00

Just wondering is it worth me getting these together oneday and selling sketchbooks at cons?

Stuff

2009-03-26T03:26:00.000-07:00

Here's some Sketchbook pages and also a couple of panels featuring the really cool Sno-Cat model Andrew made for me.

Trilogy Meter

2009-03-19T03:42:00.000-07:00

Cool thing from Andrew Glazebrook's Be Still my Blog of War site, where he's put up a blank one too.

http://bsmbow.blogspot.com/

also on JimSmash blog another cool one btw

http://jimsmash.blogspot.com/

Was a bit of fun anyway. Thing that annoys me about the Matrix sequels was that there was probably a semi decent and action packed 2hr film hidden in the 4hrs+ of the two films.

bits and bobs

2009-03-14T17:55:00.000-07:00

I've joined twitter and have been posting a few bits via twit pic here they are. They're mostly from digi cam so the quality is a little low.