Behind the scenes:

Edenworld Saga is a SciFi / Fantasy comic created and illustrated by Chris Crontiris and edited by Jason Lanum.  Edenworld Saga chronicles the struggle of Lyron Jotun.  With the assistance of his friends, they attempt to survive in a world that has outgrown their kind.

Drawing Tools:

When I make a new comic page, I typically use a pre-written script that I had submitted for Editing and finalized through Jason Lanum. I take a scene or a block of text and I plan what will happen by thumb-nailing or pre-sketching all my comic panels day to day on a sheet of paper. i can plan camera angles, check flow, and experiment with panel shapes before I do the final drawing. The final drawing is sketched onto a pre-rulled sheet of type A DELETER brand comic book paper, size B4. because the size of this sheet is very big, i cross a line through the middle of it and draw 2 pages per one page of paper.

Deleter
Equipment
Script and Thumbnails

Rather then using a photo blue pencil, i use a sharpened 4H Derwent pencil for under drawing, and a  PaperMate sharpwriter #2 mechanical pencil for darker lines and easier scan-ability. If I need to erase, I find the Pentel Click eraser is much easier to use then a big block eraser.  It also saves on using up the pink eraser tips on your pencils. I scan The side of the comic paper that i just completed on a cannon LIDe 30 flatbed scanner, and the 300DPI gray-scale jpeg is imported into Adobe cs 2 for cleanup. Dust and scratch marks can be manually cleaned up using a fine errase tool, or lassoing a dirty section and then going > immage > edit > levels to toggle he brightness and contrast. from this point, I apply various shades of gray on a layer under the line art layer. the line art layer property should be set to ‘multiply” to see the layer under it. while painting and adding contrast in the panels and try to find new ways to apply brushes, filters, or overlay layers to convey texture and make the world around the characters more interesting.

I do not use ink. While inking provides better contrast to your comic pages, i find it to be an unnecessary extra step in the process of getting a non-color page or 2 out the door in a given week.  there is no one way to do a comic of course, so I suggest aspiring webcomickers to experiment and see what works for them and what they don’t have the patience for.