This looks fun, so much exciting art on this thread.
I've been working on evolving my style lately, by experimenting with a variety of digital brushes and attempting to bring a rougher and simplified look to my work, less line art and more selling the image with shapes, light and textures. Still learning but hopefully getting better, looking forward to taking some SVS classes to improve. I've always struggled with colour and light and used to be all about just colouring inside my own linework, but am trying to change and improve.

https://www.instagram.com/mattbakerfineart/
https://mattbakerart.com

'Lower your expenses' rather than working more to make more money. Excellent wisdom from Lee; so simple and so generally ignored in our culture. Thanks for that gold piece of advice.

Hey Chris, yeah graphic novels and comics are a great genre!
My all time favourite graphic novel is the Bone series by Jeff Smith.
As a teenager I thought all I wanted to do when I grew up was either draw comics or be an animator.

I've seen comic book influences in a lot of those kids chapter books these days, which is cool. Working on an idea for one myself.

For a long time my own style was influenced mainly by American superhero comics, and that can still be seen in a lot of my work, for better or worse, but these days I'm more influenced by art outside of the comics genres, although I feel like there are some absolutely incredible comic book artists still around of course.

My top three mainstream comic artists at the moment would have to be Stuart Immonen, Pepe Larraz and Olivier Coipel.

I'm no expert but I'm happy to swap tips and tricks!

Here's an inked drawing of the potential lead character in my book:

@TessaW Holy Moly, these are looking amazing, I would buy this book just for the illustrations alone. Thanks so much for sharing your process and talent.

Got inspired by the guys talking about their methods, so I'm trying something slightly different on my latest WIP. Jake was talking about colouring with the generic Photoshop swatches and then desaturating and adjusting colour balance, so I'm trying that with this one. It's a piece for a chapter book by author Jason Matheson for 9-12 yr old boys mainly, and I can only describe it as an insane dystopic insect fantasy with a dab of Mad Max thrown in. There's a lot left to go on this pic; lighting, tonal values, background, textures, but thought I'd share my progress if that's okay? (If I'm not supposed to post this here I'll delete it with apologies.)

@burvantill Beautiful work! Love your layout, colour, style, storytelling, the whole thing.

Thanks for the great thread, @burvantill, looking forward to following more cool and inspirational artists
Mine are @mattybake and @mattbakerfineart

https://www.instagram.com/mattybake/
https://www.instagram.com/mattbakerfineart/

@burvantill Oh wow, that is true dedication!!

@ArtofAleksey I've been tossing up doing a web comic and then printing it if successful. A friend of mine, Rene Pfitzner, has done that successfully with his Sneaky Goblins GN. He made it as a webcomic then ran a successful Kickstarter campaign to print it as a graphic novel. I found it more enjoyable to read as a traditionally printed GN:
https://www.tolcraft.com/comic/sneaky-goblins-cover/

@MattBaker replying to my own comment here, looks like I can screen record with Quicktime on my Mac and use my computer's somewhat tinny microphone for sound.

I'd still like to know what the more professional setups are for this kind of thing though

@Braden-Hallett Setting up a piece in layers to turn on layer by layer to show process is a pretty great way to do it, I reckon, thumbs up.

@MattBaker replying to my own comment here, looks like I can screen record with Quicktime on my Mac and use my computer's somewhat tinny microphone for sound.

I'd still like to know what the more professional setups are for this kind of thing though

I love this idea, Braden, great suggestion and I've love to see your process since your art is amazing, and there's so much we could learn from each other in this SVS community for sure. I don't feel like I have a lot to share but I'd be happy to give it a go. I'd be more inclined to want to pre-record rather than go live (I get nervous), especially since I think I work a bit more slowly than a lot of other artists I know.

I also have no idea about how to do it, e.g. what recording app to use and what hardware, such as microphone or whatever. Anyone got some good advice or links to good tips on how to set up and record tutorials or time lapses etc?

@ArtofAleksey I've been tossing up doing a web comic and then printing it if successful. A friend of mine, Rene Pfitzner, has done that successfully with his Sneaky Goblins GN. He made it as a webcomic then ran a successful Kickstarter campaign to print it as a graphic novel. I found it more enjoyable to read as a traditionally printed GN:
https://www.tolcraft.com/comic/sneaky-goblins-cover/

Hey Chris, yeah graphic novels and comics are a great genre!
My all time favourite graphic novel is the Bone series by Jeff Smith.
As a teenager I thought all I wanted to do when I grew up was either draw comics or be an animator.

I've seen comic book influences in a lot of those kids chapter books these days, which is cool. Working on an idea for one myself.

For a long time my own style was influenced mainly by American superhero comics, and that can still be seen in a lot of my work, for better or worse, but these days I'm more influenced by art outside of the comics genres, although I feel like there are some absolutely incredible comic book artists still around of course.

My top three mainstream comic artists at the moment would have to be Stuart Immonen, Pepe Larraz and Olivier Coipel.

I'm no expert but I'm happy to swap tips and tricks!

Here's an inked drawing of the potential lead character in my book:

@TessaW Holy Moly, these are looking amazing, I would buy this book just for the illustrations alone. Thanks so much for sharing your process and talent.

@CLCanadyArts That redo looks awesome. I think it would look really cool if the text was made to look like it was embedded/embossed into the leather of the book.

@Braden-Hallett whatever digital pencils you are using, they work perfectly with your style. Magic.

@Neha-Rawat your spread looks amazing, love the beat-up cars and the lighting, and of course the expression on the frogs' faces