One Bad Island Digital Inking Demo

[Doug TenNapel]

I would love to do an "art of" book and have thought a lot about doing one this year.

A Big HC of your sketches and drawings throughout your career would be amazing. I still look back to your old Eartworm Jim Illustrations for inspiration.

I would buy an Art od Doug Tennpale book in a heartbeat.

I'm also trying to gather enough EWJ concept art to make a dedicated Jim book about how it all happened.

[Jon F]

I think a book with EWJ concept art and the sordid history of the FUBAR'd rights would be a very interesting read.

Doug, I still have that pair of cels from the cartoon that you lent me. We never used them for the coffee shop. I came across them while cleaning out a closet. I can ship them back if you want them, or bring with me during my next trip down south.

[Doug TenNapel]

I think a book with EWJ concept art and the sordid history of the FUBAR'd rights would be a very interesting read.

Doug, I still have that pair of cels from the cartoon that you lent me. We never used them for the coffee shop. I came across them while cleaning out a closet. I can ship them back if you want them, or bring with me during my next trip down south.

Bring em' on your next trip. Thanks for being the largest curator of my art in the world.

[lemm]

I'll ftp you high res concepts if you want Doug. I have a load of stuff. x___x

[Doug TenNapel]

I'll ftp you high res concepts if you want Doug. I have a load of stuff. x___x

Thanks, lemm! That will be great!

[Leon&Number13]

that would be a purchase i would make as well...
it would really be cool to even see little snippets of characters and sketches that maybe didn't make the cut for finished work, but is amazing none-the-less.

[mister_m]

Who is the band in the video track? anyone know?

[Kenny Hitt]

Who is the band in the video track? anyone know?

Half Japanese.

[Coolindude]

Any word on a release date for this?

[Doug TenNapel]

No release date and no publisher just yet. I'm busy working on my next book... thumbnailing up to page 70 so far.

[mister_m]

No release date and no publisher just yet. I'm busy working on my next book... thumbnailing up to page 70 so far.

Are you on 2 novels a year now? will this be a digi or brush project?

[Doug TenNapel]

No release date and no publisher just yet. I'm busy working on my next book... thumbnailing up to page 70 so far.

Are you on 2 novels a year now? will this be a digi or brush project?

I'm up to about 1.5 novels a year. I could easily do 2 a year if I ditched color, but I'm having fun with the color books we've done so far (GEAR, Ghostopolis, One Bad Island).

I was sure to do this next book with ink and brush and I just kinda chickened out. The Cintiq offers a lot of short cuts to make the books go a little faster. But I just read Tommysaurus Rex to my daughter and really loved those hand inked pages. It made me wish I could do both in the same book! But that would be stupid. So I'll probably do digital again, but I have a while before I need to decide yet. I think the book would be artistically better if I went ink and brush.

[mister_m]

Do you have an editor\proof reader to offer some critiscism on your script before you thumbnail?

I'm sure whatever medium you choose it will rock, I'm a traditionalist and like physical mediums but i do know that digital can look amazing and do things unique to it's playground. My only qualm is that it's a little too synthetic sometimes. Wouldn't it be boring if the whole world went digital?

[Doug TenNapel]

I don't have editors any more who offer critiques of my scripts before I go to thumbnail. I have friends I bounce the story off of, and when the book goes to a publisher they will have some notes and changes to do to the finished book. I never mind adding pages to address an editor's notes.

I have no love for digital. It's purely a matter of business and expedience... not always the best way to make a decision but these days, it's hard to justify doing what I love when doing what I don't love is faster and less hassle.

[mister_m]

That's the way it goes in animation these days as well, and you get the old guys saying how so much aquired knowledge is lost because it's just not needed in the digital realm, like the tricks they used to use for creating effects that come out of a box in the digital world. You didn't need to be a programmer to create water effects just some good ol' fashioned creative ingenuity.

I think you're still having fun inking digitally, if it wasn't fun you wouldn't do it.