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Making Wake of the Clash

Devices and Programs

• Wacom Intuos 4 (trusty non-display tablet)
• Clip Studio Paint (GREAT for all stages of the process)
• Ipad/Procreate (for penciling/inking on the go)

Physical Media Recommendations

Wake of the Clash is drawn 100% digital, but I still have a STRONG love of traditional media! Here are some of my favorite materials for those who'd like some recommendations:

• For INKING:
1. I'm always on the hunt for DARK, BLACK inks that don't show much gradient(I'll water it down if I want a wash effect). Waterproof, pigment-based inks are my favorite. I use a mix of markers, nibs, and brushes depending on the job. These days I find myself sticking closer to my brushpens, and use a regular ink and bush for spotting out large areas of black.
2. Tombow Fudenosuke Brush Pens(High control, fine line variation)
3. Pentel Pocket Brush Pen(Synthetic bristles, my love...)
4. Sakura Gelly Roll(White)
5. Sakura Pen-Touch Paint Markers(White)
6. Speedball Super Black India Ink
7. Zebra G-nib
8. mapping nib
• For PENCILS/SKETCHING:
1. Truth be told, I'm not particularly picky with my graphite pencils, be they wooden or mechanical. If you can find graphite sticks those are really cool too. More importantly: a good eraser is really important, find a brand you love and stick with it. My best advice in this department: get yourself a kneaded eraser...
2. Prismacolor Col-Erase Copy not NP Blue(non-photo blue pencil)
3. Uni NanoDia Color Erasable Lead (Mint Blue, for a non-photo blue mechanical pencil lead)
4. Tombow Mono Eraser(my new beau)
• GENERAL:
1. Useful materials to have on hand, but not necessarily directly involved in the comic-making process
2. SKETCHBOOK (if you're practicing your drawing at a break-neck pace like I do, you wanna get the cheapest, most disposable(but still acid free) paper you can get your hands on, while still being pleasurable to draw in and on. My former go-to used to be the Strahmore Windpower sketchbook, I'd swear that the surface quality was just slightly more pleasant than their normal brand. Now day's I'm rocking with Speedball's Flip-sketch, but that's mostly cause I can't seem to find the windpower any where since I moved...)
3. CHONKY MARKERS (I'll hit up a staples and grab their cheapest chunky permanent marker when mine go(frequently) dry. Big lines are easier and faster to get down suitable looking drawings with. I'd been doing it on my own for a while, but one of my supervisors at work told me to go practice some compositions with the largest marker I had once so don't take it from me, take it from her!)
   
4. RIGHT ANGLE (one of these things... I don't know what it's called:)