Creating My First Comic: Behind the Scenes of Binary Sea
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- Опубликовано: 1 дек 2023
- BINARY SEA Campaign: zoop.gg/c/binarysea
The first issue of my comic book BINARY SEA is live on Zoop for a few more days! In this video I go over its creation process with a little help from artist Jason Piperberg!
Music by Epidemic Sound (www.epidemicsound.com)
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Special thanks to Andrew Elliott (Stalli111: / stalli111 ) for editing this video.
Still a few days to check out my comic for $2: zoop.gg/c/binarysea
Can late comers purchase digital copies?
Honestly really insane that a RUclipsr I've watched for a while is now a comic book writer. Really awesome. The comic looks great and can't wait to see it on the shelves of comic book stores here in the UK. Keep up the great work.
I've followed a pretty much similar path. I'm currently making one with my brother as the artist. Writing for movies is just so hard to get in the mindest of if your world already isn't in the industy. And jeez there isn't a way to visualize your stories better or quicker than handing a script to a talented artist
I really appreciate videos like this, where you break down your journey to how you've succeed in your career. As a fan of you work, I find great value in understanding your path.
I'm really happy for you!! I have been working as a comic letterer and graphic designer since 2017, that feeling of seeing the printed pages is awesome! Congrats 😄
I thought it would be Midnight Captain 😁😁😁😏😏
I actually really appreciate you making a BTS video for your comic on the grounds that I too have been working on a show of my own. As of late I have trying to nail down a pilot script but Ive always considered adapting it into a comic first before seeing if it can be turned into a show. Once again, I appreciate the video and making these kinds of projects feel more attainable.
Very cool video
Nice to hear more about you and the bts of the comic
Can't wait to read it
You're channel has been a huge inspiration to me over the past few years as I've tried to balance my regular life while attempting to write my own stories. I'm so incredibly excited to see you accomplish your dreams and can't wait to get my hands on Binary Sea!
Man you don’t know how much I identify with EVERYTHING you saying in this video, I’m an indie screenwriters and director, I have worked on over a dozen short films, I’ve got about 2 almost finished, 3 on their way and about half a dozen project in early stages, I was talking the other day to my girlfriend about write a comic book as it’s not as expensive as a movie and all you need is a couple of people, thanks a million for this video and good luck with Binary Sea
Amazing! Great to see your creative process for something you are so passionate about. If ever you bring them to life as 3D models i'd love to paint them 😀
I don't really do Patreon so I happilyy bought a bundle. Love the channel and super chill but really thoughtful approach you have. Keep it up and congrats on making your first comic! I'm looking forward to reading it.
Thank you so much for sharing this, I'm someone who is currently in art school and is trying to make his own comics, both as an writer/artists and just as a writer. Can't wait to read Binary Sea when it comes out
This is really cool, I’ve struggled a lot with trying to be creative and trying to create something I’m proud of, it’s always awesome to see someone take a swing at something really cool, and to then succeed, really great stuff man
Only just got around to reading the first issue and I gotta say, it was great. I'm not one for pirate-y stuff usually but this was really well written, well drawn, and I'm full of intrigue to see where it goes!
Looks great!!! Happy that you were able to take time to invest in personal projects. Excited to check it out
Awesome sauce man
I was waiting for my physical copy to come in to read it and It just arrived today. I actually really enjoyed it. First of all, the quality of the book itself is actually really nice it's definitely one of the highest quality single issues I own now. The art in the book is pretty good and the writing ain't half bad. I gotta say im hooked man. I'm excited to see where it goes and hope you can keep it going 🙏
Good on you, Dear Captain! Much success in the future. You are an old stalwart.
Please keep making videos on the whole comic creations process, the announcement video gave me so much hope & clarity on how to move forward w/ my own books!
Already pledged for a hard copy! Can’t wait to read it and hear more about the bts!
Amazing!
Congratulations man
Got my copy today!!!
This was great.
I loved the process on both ends.
I was fascinated with the lettering first strategy.
I think I understood...you made the decisions on placement and what was obscured.
and I finally understood Captain Midnights involvement ...he is the writer...
I loved Binary Sea it was different it was weird ...I liked it.
I just got the digital version (it's easier). But it was more than worth the pittance I paid for it.
Make MORE ART.
Both of you.
Laters.
I read the Horatio Hornblower novels every day as I ride the subway home from work
(also, you're crazy if you can't see the love of the ship and the "sea" that is in Captain Kirk)
If I wasn't living in China, I would definitely check out your book
Love to see this! I’m a huge pirate fan and I’m working on my first comic right now. Any tips for what I can do to make the process as painless as possible for my artist?
Deadly!!
Really hope this project succeeds for you, glad to see you following what you're passionate about outaide of RUclips videos :)
Also could you do a video on Gen V how it compares to the boys and what it sets up for Season 4, as your coverage of the boys is always very insightful.
Also especially relevant that the season 4 trailer is out now
Longtime subscriber. Congrats on the new comic.
btw can you do a video on Godzilla Minus One? Seems to be getting a lot of good buzz
I was kinda thinking this had similarities to Horatio Hornblower, and now I know why! This looks amazing! I’m excited to finally read this comic when it comes out.
Also I have a question for Jason, I was wondering what your process was for making backgrounds? especially for locations that don’t have Visual indicators that show readers what Direction they're looking at (like a forest or a Desert).
Thank you!
That's a great question! For most of my backgrounds I'll start by laying in a perspective grid even for scenes like forests and deserts. I work digitally so I overlay these grids on top of my rough thumbnail sketch before moving to the pencils/inks. This helps me visualize how things are supposed to recede in space, even if I'm not following the lines of the grid exactly.
So for a desert scene, if you're using lines rather than painting, I'd pay attention to the line thickness in order to create the illusion of depth. Anything further away from the "camera" will have a thinner line than anything closer to it. The horizon line would be thinner than anything in the foreground, like say lines indicating ripples in the sand or maybe sparse vegetation, an animal skull, etc.
There are a lot of great RUclips videos on this topic. Look up atmospheric perspective. But you can also take a close look at any of your favorite artists and really dissect how they are constructing scenes like this. Overlapping objects can also help. Like having that animal skull crossing over the horizon line in a low angle shot or something.
For the rough sketch itself I mostly just eyeball things. But the trick is to remember that you're trying to convey the illusion that things are receding in space.
I hope that helps!
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Thank very much, this was incredibly insightful!
This should really help with the project I'm working on.
@@iquest9701 No problem! Happy to help and good luck on your project!
@@jasonpiperbergillustration7770 Thank you!
I left to make comics for similar reasons. I went to a high school of the arts that taught film (Ironically in Florida) and I felt that I'll never be able to make the screenplays I had made. I saw comics as a means of telling the stories I wanted to tell.
I’d have a question for Jason: as someone hoping to get into the artistic process, what programmes would you recommend for scanning, converting, lettering and colouring?
(For someone starting out).
Good question! I work almost entirely digitally at this point but when I scan traditional pieces I think I usually just use Apple's Image Capture app and my Epson flatbed scanner. One thing to keep in mind with scanning is that you should scan in no lower than 300dpi. I usually go 450 or 600 to really preserve image detail. Greyscale is fine for black and white art.
I adjust that scan in Clip Studio Paint EX which is my go to art app. I switched over to it from Photoshop in 2014 and never went back. I just really love the brush engine, for drawing and coloring (when I color my own stuff), and I do the bulk of my lettering in it too. Although I wouldn't recommend it if you're primarily doing lettering only. In that case, I'd suggest Adobe Illustrator, or Affinity Designer if you'd rather not pay Adobe's subscription fee. I've been using Affinity instead of Adobe for a few years now and it's totally capable, imo. Clip Studio's lettering tools are good, but the text tool specifically is a little clunky. But It works for me and it's been improved recently.
Some other good apps affordable are: Procreate, Affinity Photo (Affinity's Photoshop)
There are even some free ones like Krita which I haven't used a ton, but seems like a decent option.
Hope that helps!
Thank you! That is more advice than I could have ever hoped for.
@@finndelimatamay1983 No problem! Happy to help.
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My question for jason is how do you do such fantastic line weight with your inking? How did you develop or practice those skills?
Hey, thank you!! The general answer is it's a lot of practice, and looking at other people's work that I really admire and trying to incorporate some of their techniques. One thing that I try to keep in mind when dealing with things like environments, or crowd scenes, is that subjects in the front of the scene near the "camera" will usually have thicker lines, and subjects further away will have thinner and sometimes even broken lines. This keeps things from flattening out. This actually still holds true when dealing with close ups. I try to make the lines for the overall head shape and hair a bit thicker than the ones for the eyes, nostrils, wrinkle's etc.
Also always keep light source in mind. lines can be thinner the closer they are to a light source and thicker the further away they are. I've also found that it's good to keep a looser grip on your pen, brush, stylus, or whatever it is you're inking with.
I work digitally, so I'm always trying out new brushes, and textures. This issue was largely inked using brushes I made that are in my textured inkers and scruffy pencils brush set, but also some from Ray Frenden, DAUB, and True Grit Texture supply. If you're interested, here's a link to my brushes. jasonpiperberg.gumroad.com
I have some speed drawing videos on my (super tiny) RUclips Channel as well as my IG @JasonPiperberg, if you want to see how I work.
Hope that helps!
Oh wow thanks for all the helpful information! I really appreciate you taking your time to do write this. Thanks again!
No problem! Happy to help!
I figure you can't get too much into specifics, but as somebody trying to get into this sort of thing as pretty much just a writer, what sort of general price range were you looking at for paying your artists, and where did you find them?
noice
You read the original Y The Last Man comic? Too bad the adaptation only lasted one season!
Small correction. none of the "Image" titles you mentioned were actually published by image. They were both published by DC under their Vertigo imprint.
How embarrassing! I shoulda double checked that.
EDIT: Thanks for catching that. I trimmed it out. It's not seamless but at least it's not wrong now lol.
Oh! And a question for Captain Midnight: what non-superhero graphic novels would you recommend to really show the strengths of the medium?
Off the top of my head?
Love & Rockets, there’s a lot of it, almost all is worth your time.
Alan Moore is obvious, but people should really explore beyond Watchmen and Killing Joke. I especially like From Hell.
Eastman and Laird’s original TMNT run are filled with so much passion and excitement, those are great (as well as the recent Last Ronin stuff).
Darwyn Cooke’s Parker graphic novels (starting with The Hunter) are incredible. Cooke was a monumental talent.
Blankets is great.
For something really recent, I’m loving Titan’s new Conan the Barbarian, which really harkens back to the ‘70s Savage Sword of Conan). Both well worth reading.
Thanks! I’m located in Ireland, so availability might be a bit of a problem, but I’ll keep an eye out where I can.
As someone who wants to try and make my own comic, I’m having trouble figuring out exactly whether to draw digitally or hands on. I’m much more experienced and more fluent with hands on drawing, but I’m unsure of how to do that when it comes to making an official comic. Can I get any tips for how exactly to go about drawing?
Just do them with the traditional method. Even inking.
You can easily scan the pages and add digital effects (and lettering, coloring) later.
What you leave for digital is entirely up to you.
@@kamikaze5528 awesome, thanks!
@@thegoodhumanrichard6861 The thing with digitalizing your drawings is that you'll have to do some clean-up afterwards, taking the white of the paper out, fix the blacks, and so on. It's a learning curve and you probably will have to learn how to use Photoshop, After Effects and similar (and it's also a good idea to get yourself a drawing tablet).
Either way what part you leave for the computer is up to you.
@@kamikaze5528 it does sound like hefty work, but if it’s easier for me than digital drawing then I’ll go for it. Thank you 😄
@@thegoodhumanrichard6861 You'll have to be acquainted with the apps you're using, sure.
Photoshop and similar are daunting at first because they does a lot of stuff, most things you probably don't need.
For what you need, youtube has many tutorials.
Drawing digitally on the other hand is not that big of a jump from paper. If you don't outright get a Cintiq tablet, or use an ipad, the hand-eye coordination will take about a week to adjust, but being able to undo mistakes with a button press and being able to use layers sure come in handy.
Also, will there be another way to purchase this book? I tried multiple times from my phone & the site kept crashing & I tried once from my computer & it wouldn’t work either. I just got frustrated & gave up.
I really wanna get my hands on this book!
The campaign just wrapped up! So not yet, BUT it will be back on sale very soon. THANK YOU for your interest
@@captainmidnight I’ll keep my eyes peeled! Congratulations man!!
For the both of you: Could you talk about Captainmidnight's lack of experience vs the money offered, and how that affected the decision to work with each other?
For example, Captain: were there other artists you would also like to work with, but they are too "big" to get for what you could offer to pay?
For example, Jason: do you have concerns working for a rookie writer? Is there a certain standard you want to see from a writer before agreeing to work with them?
Jason was honestly the first person I approached. I just liked his stuff and wanted to work with him.
I would say that I do have a baseline standard of quality that I'm looking for in a story/writing, but I'm not always concerned about how much of a rookie they are in regard to number of comics previously published or written. If I like the script/story and think it would be a fun book to work on, that's more important to me.
Lucky for me Captain is a great writer, so I was on board once I read the script!
What software do you use to create your comic? Procreate?
BTS vids are always fun.
wait how does this have so little views
One thing I'm curious about is how much it cost to hire an artist. How much money should a writer realistically expect to pay for an artist to bring their comic book script to life?
It really, really varies artist to artist. One thing I will say though is that offering artists an ownership stake in the project can be really helpful there.
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I have the the question.
I am infertile from eating scented candles
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Good luck to you but ha
You should read some european comics. They are way more diverse in theme and art than american comics.
I’ve been getting into them recently! Any recommendations?
@@captainmidnight It really depends on what you are looking for. The classics are
-L'incal: weird Moebius Jodorowsky sci-fi. Think Dune but more drugs. And the Metabaron cast which is a spin-off is basically a sci-fi tragic opera.
-The works of Enki Bilal: Nikopol trilogy, Black order phallanx, Hunting party (this one is truly great and would make such a good film)
-Blacksad: one of the most visually
beautiful you will ever see in your life if your mind has not been polluted by the knowledge of the existence of the furry community.
-Jaques Tardi C’était la guerre des tranchées. Myabe the most powerful representation of WW1 I have ever seen
-The Rabbi's cat Johann Sfar: This one is special but very cleverly written.
-Corto Maltese: a graphic and narrative classic
-Blueberry: Western/Civil war, beautiful
-Blake and Mortimer: old thriller and mysteries for the young usually science fiction of magic with a lot of military prospective. (Maybe "Yellow M" to begin? It is iconic)
-XIII: Basically a more complex Jason Bourne in a Kennedy-like assassination.
-Largo Winch: Also a crime mystery where you follow a man that came out of knowhere to inherit the largest fortune in the world and of course spaeks some jealousy.
-the Killer: It's better than the recent Fincher movie
-Tintin, Asterix, Spirou: intended for children but entertaining nonetheless. Maybe more if it's your childhood read of course.
-Esteban: lesser known coming of age meets Moby Dick
-Idées noires by Franquin is very visual and weird but an interesting experience.
-Riad Sattouf and Guy Delisle both write some beautiful portraits and autobiographies with simple drwings of their experiences in different parts of the world.
There are so many more. It really depedns on the subject that interests you. You have Historical fiction, alternate history (Jour J), fantastical or fantasy in History... You can also try anthologies like 7, there are many like it. Basically the same team writes a stand-alone story with sometimes a new writer and always a different artist. 7 has a common thread that every story involves 7 characters in a story whatever the theme or subject. It can go from horror to comedy or science-fiction. Jour j (D-day) takes the same concept but every album explores a new alternate history scenario with new characters and a classic plot inside this universe: a war, heist, thriller, espionnage, trial...
Blueberry is fantastic. Thanks for the recs!
Ur characters do that stupid "No Killing" crap?