Here’s my pencils to the 1st 3 pages of issue 87. I inked the last 7 pages of this issue so I’ll show a process of pencil to ink soon. For these pages I did a little re-design of Omnipotus, my first design way back in issue 27 looked a little rusty. So I just updated him a bit, he’s a pretty fun dude to draw.

Ryan

My buddy Derek hooked me up with a much sleeker blog, my old one was getting, well…old. You can see the store is up(the 25% off sale is still going on, just put the word OPEN in the coupon area), there’s a link to my art dealer at Splashpageart.
We’re trying to get it so the posts transfer to Tumblr, Twitter, and Facebook with ease. Images keep getting weird on Tumblr though. We’ll figure it out.

Here’s some art from INVINCIBLE 87. Did a Dinosaurus redesign, his old costume was getting, well..old. His new design is pretty basic, just metal pants. I wonder if putting them on is like a woman putting on tight jeans, lots of jumping up and down, laying on the bed to pull them up. I’ll tell Robert to add a scene like that. Also the splash page of Dinosarus and Invincible flying into the scene. The response to this issue was great, so glad to hear from so many that it excited them to the point of bursting out loud at that last page. Love it when that happens!
Hey thanks for reading and visiting my art sites! Later.

Ryan

Here’s a panel I had way too much fun with.

It comes out tomorrow! And here’s a big preview> http://comics.ign.com/articles/121/1216121p1.html

I finally have a STORE up! Go HERE> http://ryanottleystore.bigcartel.com/products For this GRAND OPENING I’m doing a 25% off sale. Just input the coupon code “OPEN” at checkout.
I have Trade Paperbacks, sketchbooks, prints, Library HC’s! I’m trying to finally get rid of the tons of boxes of stuff I have  that I’m probably never going to do anything with. Its not like a regular store, the things I have I only have a limited supply of. Once they are gone, they are gone. (you can always order them from Comic Shops and online, I’m just trying to get rid of the stock I have.)

But I will gladly sign everything ordered! And if you are buying the huge Complete 3rd Library Edition, I will even do a quick sketch inside.

Thanks everyone!

And Thanks to Derek Hunter for hooking me up with this store and new header for www.ryanottley.com

Ryan

Cover for the next hard cover, this has a release date of February 15th!  Here’s a process scan of how I do things. Layout on Cintiq in that first pic. Then I print it out in blueline, and do finished pencils and inks on bristol board. I always have a hard time with these covers, they are always packed with everyone from the issues so it’s tough to get any kind of composition. Here I tried to organize things a little bit but with keeping the same idea of all the other covers.

And here’s the final inks.

Hey! Been a second since I posted last. Here’s a couple new covers for INVINCIBLE.

A couple updates. The third library is out or should be out VERY soon. We just turned in the 15th trade paperback to the printer, so that’ll be a month or 2. All issues up to 87 are done. Gonna be finishing issue 88 next week. So we are moving at a nice pace and I gotta say, these issues will blow minds.

Been having a ton of fun with an artist blog i’m a part of called The Sindiecate. We pay tribute to independent comics by picking a new favorite indie book every week and drawing whatever from it. Thursdays are my days so come check it out!  Check here and follow it!

Ryan

Thanks for ordering for the month of October everyone!  The 2 winners of the contest are Adam O. Pruett and Patrick Casao 111, your original art and prints are in the mail!

My book is still available for purchase. People have been asking about prints, I’m looking into an easy way to ship them without getting damaged. Not sure if it’ll work out. We’ll see. If anyone has any good and cheap suggestions for shipping 11×17 prints let me know! I guess I could roll the prints up but I wonder if most people don’t like that.

Here’s a pic and explanation of my current process for drawing comics.

It’s page 12 from Invincible 84 that came out this week. Not much of a spoiler, you’ll be ok to peek.

From layout to pencil, here’s what I do these days. I have a Cintiq, it speeds up the layout process immensely. The first 2 pics are digital, the 1st pic I sketch loosely in Photoshop with a thin pencil, I re-size things and move them around if needed. This is the part that REALLY helps, while drawing by hand sometimes I’ll have to re-draw whole poses because it doesn’t fit in a good composition or it’s just plain weird, so being able to move things around and re-size is amazing. Then the 2nd pic I go over it with a thicker size pencil(in Photoshop), then change it to a very light blue, print it out on 11×17 paper and do finished pencils over that with a 2B mechanical pencil. Then I scan that, send the large file to Cliff Rathburn who prints it out in blue again and inks that on his own paper. So yes, there are two originals for every page, pencils and inks.

Ryan

For the month of OCTOBER only! If you buy a copy of VIOLENCE & PINWHEELS, my classy new art book, I will choose TWO random winners and send them each an Original INVINCIBLE comic art page pictured below along with a set of 2 prints!

Purchase info and book details HERE>  http://www.ryanottley.com/archives/570

Just place your order following that link above, and at the end of October I get all the names of the ones who ordered in October and I choose 2 names randomly.

If you’ve already purchased a book I THANK you very much! This contest is just for October orders, but I will definitely do more contests in the future, so keep your eyes peeled for those!

Good luck!

More classy previews of VIOLENCE and PINWHEELS below to entice you and give you a warm feeling of want and desire! Now go get it!

Thanks! Again, purchase details HERE>

http://www.ryanottley.com/archives/570

Ryan