Tips & Techniques

  1. Wally Wood's 22 Panels That Always Work: 21st Century Digital Edition

    Wally Wood's 22 panels.
    You can download a hi-rez version to print here.

  2. PUMMEL entries from then to now

    There are a lot of activities at Penciljack that help you sharpen your skills while having a bit of fun. But the idea of pitting my skills against some very talented dudes has really pushed me a great deal over the past two years or so.

    Thought I'd make my first blog post on PJ a start to finish string of images to show where I started and where I am now.

    Thing vs. Brokenhill
    http://www.davidbovey.com/images/thing2.jpg

    Thor vs. Dri
    http://www.davidbovey.com/images/thor2.jpg ...
  3. I have a question about my inking techniques...

    Well this is more me asking 'how to'? So I was thinking about doing a cloak & dagger comic book, just for kicks. So I just finished the title page pencils, and i wanted to ink it. I'm not that familiar with inking (I only just started not too long ago and have only done a few of my works in ink). However, when inking in Tyrone's face, is there a certain way to do it to show that he is a man of color? (I don't plan on putting color into this piece) Or would I just ink him as i would anyone else? ...
  4. The Crucible

    We all want to draw comics for money. Not that the money is why you want to but getting paid to do anything means that someone (someone with access to pockets deeper than ours) likes your work well enough that they think that reimbursing you for your time seems like a good idea. But, what does that entail?

    One page a day.

    How hard can it be to draw one page a day? You can certainly sit down and draw one page in one day. First, you read your script, next, you draw ...
  5. PencilJack: You bring out the artist in me

    In my english class we are starting a poetry unit. We read a poem "You Bring Out the Mexican in Me" by Sandra Cisneros. We were assigned to write a poem in similar style. Here's what I wrote:

    You bring out the artist in me
    myself and I
    The little kid, comic nerd
    the yelling kid that's hardly heard.
    You bring out the Pro in me
    the inking man with pencils too
    where would I be without you

    Big erasers and small, small ...
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