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Heart's Desire: the making ofI'm no cartoonist, but I'm pretty sure someone out there is going to appreciate this (I've always wanted to make these things, anyway!). Here I go in depth about the writing and artistic process of making the "Heart's Desire" comic that seemed to be fairly successful. It's a tad long-winded, but if you're interested at all it in the details, here it is.
The artistic process was fairly simple and made easy because I had scaled down the original image. The sketches were actually twice as large, but SAI couldn't handle that size. Reducing it helped me significantly, since it was what made the whole process really fast and done in less than a week.

It starts off with a basic sketch; most of the scenes had already been imagined in my head, with just the ending sequence being sketched out on the whim.
Outlines were refined, as well as black borders. I just filled the entire canvas black and cropped out squares for the panels. Not a really good idea for comic making, but I ne

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Heart's Desire - Processby *Karzahnii

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For reference in my journal entry, which covers a lot about the Heart's Desire making-of process.

~ShaD-23 Aug 31, 2012

Very nicely done.

*stupidyou3 Mar 28, 2012 Student Digital Artist

This is a great reference!So you use Stabilizers right? And everything is a separate layer is it?

*Karzahnii Mar 28, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Yes, everything has a separate layer (colour, line, shade, detail like lighting, background). I did use stabilizers for this one but I'm finding recently that no stabilizers is more helpful. That part is really just preference.

~BaniTehCat Mar 3, 2012 Student Digital Artist

May I ask, how did you do the red overlay? Did you just change the hue/saturation, or did you just put a red layer over it and lowered the opacity?

*Karzahnii Mar 3, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I put a reddish layer over everything and set the blending layer to Overlay.

~BaniTehCat Mar 3, 2012 Student Digital Artist

Thank youu lol

*Squirrlox Mar 3, 2012 Student General Artist

on the second panel, how did you get the lines so pretty from the 1th panelD:

*Karzahnii Mar 3, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Oh, I didn't actually TURN the first image into the second image. I drew the first one initially to get an idea of how it looks. Then I put a layer over that and draw on top of it.

The first image is never actually used, it's just for reference.

*Squirrlox Mar 3, 2012 Student General Artist

oh, well i asked because when i draw on photoshop it tends my lines get's a little bumpy and not the way i like. but sometimes i do it right, but the 2th panel of yours is so perfekt and pretty xD

~KaotikJuju Mar 3, 2012 Hobbyist

that's amazing!!

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