Dredd Remake/Remodel

KANO postits

this is the way i do my dot screen on drawings

this is the way i do my dot screens on drawings, their are loads of ways

of doing it, every one has their own idea.

this sketch is it help me develop a short romance story based on the

romance comic's of the 60's and 70's, with a planet of the apes element

thrown in to the mix.

you will need to click on the images to see the actual

dot and the reason for adding a dot screen is to give

the drawing more of a tone, its also important to me

that you can see the dot with the naked eye, ijust like 

it that way.

this (above) is the sketch scanned in  in grayscale

i made a copy in photoshop and dark the sketch so 

i would get a dot in the white areas

with the first image i converted it to a bitmap at 50% 

threshold, this gives me a solid black & white image

with the copied darkened image i convert it to bitmap 

but this time using halftone screen at 45 frequency, this 

number will have to be higher or lower depending on 

the image resolution and size of the dot you want.

you will really have to enlarge this image to see the dots

oh ya, i also made a second copy of the darkened 

image so that i can once again convert it to bitmap 

but this time using a halftone screen at 25 frequency, 

resulting in a bigger dot, enlarge this image to see the dots

i then brought the 50% threshold image & the halftone

screen 45 frequency in to the same file as layers

and and started to erase some of the screen

then brought the halftone screen at 25 frequency in to

the same file and erased alot of it leaving some under

the cheek  and under the head and behind the hand

etc., flatted it all and saved it as a bit map at  50%

threshold, if you leave it as layers or save it as grayscale

it will further dotscreen at the printer slightly bluring the

image, which is not what i want.

thats it,

Star Wars, What if...?

Judge Dredd

had a copy of Brendan McCarthy's cover for the latest Judge Dredd
Megazine beside me when i drew this, so he definitely influenced this
version of Dredd.

Kano

a quick drawing of Kano from Bad Company, 2000ad.

Colin MacNeil by james

great interview with Colin MacNeil by "Everything comes back to 2000ad"
folks at the following:

http://2000ad.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/megacast-ep5-colin-macneil/ have
been a fan of his for years and he is still producing his best work in
Judge Dredd Megazine at he moment, go check it out.

www.meanwhile.tv

st. patrick 3000

wanted to draw something all the same, even thought i could not make it to the pub scrawl.
http://galwaypubscrawl.blogspot.com/

dot screen test

this is a tonel dot screen test and the origional penciling of a
character i drew for the Hibernia Comics "Tales from the Emerald Isle" a
2000ad
inspired comic fanzine, http://www.hiberniabook.blogspot.com/ writing
credit on the character goes out to Shaun Avery.

Ian Buchanan's Reaper

drawing by james newell