Guillaume Singelin – Josh Hancock

Manga Studio Guillaume Singelin Study

I’ve finally started learning how to use Manga Studio 5 which I invested in to see how it would do as a Photoshop alternative. It was very intuitive and has everything a comic artist needs for coloring which is all I’ve attempted at this point.

The above images are studies of a Guillaume Singelin illustration from his “Southern Tales” series which I found in his excellent book of sketches Junky. Below is a poorly filtered image I took from the book itself. This was a lot of fun to do and it was a good way to start learning a new program.

Guillaume Singelin Lovin’

I fell in love with Guillaume Singelin last year when I came across some of his space drawings and I immediately began following his tumblr. I’ve experimented with his coloring style (not very successfully), and I just purchased my first of his books–“Junky.” It’s an amazing sketch journal packed with a lot of good insights into Singelin’s process. I would highly recommend it if you’re in the market for some stylized visual inspiration.

As I’ve been reading “Junky” I’ve been soaking in Singelin’s style with my own sketches of his work:

More Beginner Photoshop Fun

Colonist #87

I have left the Earth behind.

Pale blue dot, fading into darkness:

Home, all that I know, my Native Shore…

You still mean everything to me,

But I turn my back

And face the stars

While the vision of your sphere

Still fills the window.

________________

You will remain large in my memory,

And I will not watch you fade

Into insignificance

With tears on my face.

__________________

No, I go forth willingly,

Boldly taking these first steps

As a child of Earth,

Ready for a brave new world.

–Andrea Gerig

I’m really enjoying this Photoshop business. I did another quick sketch today. It was, again, an attempt to mimic the style of Guillaume Singelin who does some amazing space illustrations (like this one):

http://blackyjunkgallery.tumblr.com/page/7

I’m learning more and more about this digital medium everyday. I even ordered the 12×9 Monoprice drawing tablet today so I can begin attempting to learn (on a cheaper tablet) how to do some digital painting (link to the tablet is below).

http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_id=108&cp_id=10841&cs_id=1084101&p_id=6815&seq=1&format=2

My First “Kind of” Comic

Photoshop has always been one of my glaring weaknesses as an artist. Sure, I took the “intro” class on the Adobe Suite in college, but for the most part I’ve focused on traditional media.

So, today, I decided to take a low resolution cell phone picture of a quick sketch I had done a couple months back while hanging out in a coffee shop. I threw it in Photoshop, and with the help of a lot of Youtube videos and online tutorials, I attempted to color my line drawing in the style of Guillaume Singelin. You can see his coloring work I was mimicking–as well as the line drawing I used, below. I put some mysterious text on it just so I could post it as “sequential art”:).

http://blackyjunkgallery.tumblr.com/post/51960716418