I wanted to redo the issue for cover 2 of FX Mulrooney originally penciled by myself and Inked by Patrick Hatfiield ( a fantastic designer and inker). This was a pure classic to say the least. I had scanned in the original into the computer with the original image and colored originally to much success. Along the way at some convention the original was misplaced and I wanted a digital version to finish the book with. So when my computer crashed, I could only find a crappy scan made by bridging two 8.5- 11 prints together and could not find the original whole scan- not good- I could not find the original colored PSD either- I was stuck so I had to recreate the image digitally with corrections. I am not a natural inker but I felt that I am a good tracer at best, digitally. So I made a point to re-create the image from crappy scans… I started to feel confident digitally inking only this year so I gave it a shot. I used an iPad Pro and the iPencil to create this image in Sketchbook app for the iPad. I took that Image in the Procreate App for the iPad Pro and created the flats and rendering. I exported that image to my computer to use Gimp for final effects. Please note that there is no app for Gimp or Inkscape for the iPad but the image would have had to been exported anyway to get into the printers hands. I used Inkscape for logo Images and finished them in Gimp as well. This overall was a good assignment and a great new potential workflow for comics. My big gap is going to adequately create lettering in Inkscape and Gimp and learning how to input fonts into those programs- the other gap in comic production that I will have to explore is how to export to a multipage PDF for printing- But you get an idea on how to recreate an image digitally in the iPad and computer.
Disclaimer- it will always be easier on production level and more professional to use the Adobe toolsets- but if you are cheap like me there are options.
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