inks over cary nord's star wars tales

sketch515 · 08-20-2007, 03:59 PM

here's a page i got from dark horse comics when i was applying for work with them. cary's stuff tends to go straight to color, so i hope i did them justice with my inks. c&c is welcome ad appreciated.

JLillustrator · 08-20-2007, 05:11 PM

Really awesome work! Real small thing to point out: Panels 3 and 5 have hairy characters interacting, so I would had separated the figures by adding some line weight to the character in the foreground.

Otherwise, really great choices in the gray tones and textures.

midknight · 08-20-2007, 05:47 PM

really cool

**Ron Phillips** · 08-20-2007, 06:02 PM

Just to follow up on what JLIllustrator said ... I think the separation is okay until you get to Chewy's left leg getting lost in the snow beasts. They kind of merge together and with the speed lines you lose the shape of Chewy's calf.

DAR · 08-20-2007, 06:25 PM

I like.

Justice41 · 08-20-2007, 08:25 PM

Nice, throw some white ink spray between Chewies leg and the Snowman to separate them, throw some around the snowman's waist as well as Nord had indicated he wanted.
Only real weakness is the background ice. May be because of the scan or whatever they sent you.

Biofungus · 08-20-2007, 11:14 PM

A couple of things bug me here: The solid black areas, they REALLY need to be gone over again. If you had to print it out for black and white, those areas would come out so messed up (and in their current state, they really detract, IMO). Also, in the first panel, the way you inked the corpse makes it lose it's 'skeleton-ness'. I know it sounds weird. What I'm saying is, I couldn't tell what it was, until I looked at the original pencils. You lost something in the translation.

In the next panel, the "shock" look (ie the conical speed line pattern), why is there a choppy black border? I can't fully tell if they're like that in the pencils, but if they are it alludes back to my original comment about strengthening the blacks, and if there isn't, I'm curious as to why you felt the need to add them in.

jad · 08-20-2007, 11:54 PM

Man, I just started inking with ink pen and brush and I totally bow to the skill it takes to do those pencils. Nice job.

JJ McKool · 08-22-2007, 11:50 AM

Damn, not too shabby. You seemed to ink it fairly well, though some stuff doesn't feel right, when I look closely, I know if I could ink, I wouldn't do any better. You didn't take a lot of "artistic license," which I like.

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Originally Posted by Biofungus

Also, in the first panel, the way you inked the corpse makes it lose it's 'skeleton-ness'. I know it sounds weird. What I'm saying is, I couldn't tell what it was, until I looked at the original pencils. You lost something in the translation.

Here, yeah, it's odd, you missed something, but I have no idea exactly what, maybe you need to texture the skeleton a bit, but it looks almost exact when looking back and forth between the pencils and inks, so I don't know.

Lastly, no inks should ever touch Cary Nord's pencils, at least not if the thing is gonna see publication, and only Dave Stewart is ever allowed to colour over them. I hereby state this to be of the highest the laws of the sequential land.

Rob Norton · 09-03-2007, 09:25 PM

yeah..i was going to say that really no one can make cary nords pencils look better by inking them. but i GOTTA say...i think you did a dammned good job. i really like what i see. i would send that to the printer. i mean..everyones got thier "Crits" , but..whatever. this is great stuff.

rob

blackmask · 09-05-2007, 12:00 PM

cool inks. i like very mucho. has cary done more issues of star wars ?

08-20-2007, 03:59 PM	#1
sketch515 Registered User Join Date: May 2004 Location: tampa florida Posts: 109	inks over cary nord's star wars tales here's a page i got from dark horse comics when i was applying for work with them. cary's stuff tends to go straight to color, so i hope i did them justice with my inks. c&c is welcome ad appreciated.

08-20-2007, 06:02 PM	#4
Ron Phillips Are you terminal? Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Some where under a deep blue sky. Posts: 4,105	Just to follow up on what JLIllustrator said ... I think the separation is okay until you get to Chewy's left leg getting lost in the snow beasts. They kind of merge together and with the speed lines you lose the shape of Chewy's calf. __________________ Ron Earl Phillips Buy Ron's Books - on Amazon Kindle Flash Fiction Friday - A community writing project Shotgun Honey - a blast of fiction to blow your mind Home \| Twitter \| Facebook \|MySpace

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DAR Golden Goat Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: orlando,fl Posts: 334	coool I like.

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08-20-2007, 05:11 PM	#2
JLillustrator Artist for Hire! Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Wesley Chapel, FL Posts: 164	Really awesome work! Real small thing to point out: Panels 3 and 5 have hairy characters interacting, so I would had separated the figures by adding some line weight to the character in the foreground. Otherwise, really great choices in the gray tones and textures.

08-20-2007, 05:47 PM	#3
midknight Armando Batista Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: queens, ny Posts: 2,043	really cool

08-20-2007, 08:25 PM	#6
Justice41 Piss Off Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 9,369	Nice, throw some white ink spray between Chewies leg and the Snowman to separate them, throw some around the snowman's waist as well as Nord had indicated he wanted. Only real weakness is the background ice. May be because of the scan or whatever they sent you.

08-20-2007, 11:14 PM	#7
Biofungus Not for your amusement Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Nega-Earth Posts: 22,083	A couple of things bug me here: The solid black areas, they REALLY need to be gone over again. If you had to print it out for black and white, those areas would come out so messed up (and in their current state, they really detract, IMO). Also, in the first panel, the way you inked the corpse makes it lose it's 'skeleton-ness'. I know it sounds weird. What I'm saying is, I couldn't tell what it was, until I looked at the original pencils. You lost something in the translation. In the next panel, the "shock" look (ie the conical speed line pattern), why is there a choppy black border? I can't fully tell if they're like that in the pencils, but if they are it alludes back to my original comment about strengthening the blacks, and if there isn't, I'm curious as to why you felt the need to add them in.

08-20-2007, 11:54 PM	#8
jad Anyone here Pope? Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Minnesota...God's country Posts: 258	Man, I just started inking with ink pen and brush and I totally bow to the skill it takes to do those pencils. Nice job.

09-03-2007, 09:25 PM	#10
Rob Norton apprentice of the pencil Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: utah Posts: 2,750	yeah..i was going to say that really no one can make cary nords pencils look better by inking them. but i GOTTA say...i think you did a dammned good job. i really like what i see. i would send that to the printer. i mean..everyones got thier "Crits" , but..whatever. this is great stuff. rob

09-05-2007, 12:00 PM	#11
blackmask Registered User Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 52	cool inks. i like very mucho. has cary done more issues of star wars ?