Painting with Manga Studio

These studies were painted using Manga Studio EX4 based on the ballpoint sketches of a pick-up basketball game from my previous post. I mostly used various Pencils on these.

Coloring without exporting to Photoshop seems more and more feasible.

• update: some storyboards drawn and colored with MS only

• more studies (including rendering with rulers and 32-bit color vectors)

Taking the Concentric Circle Ruler for a spin

Did this practice piece to test out 2 features of Manga Studio EX4. The Rulers in MS EX4 are exceptional—one of them is the Concentric Circle Ruler, which I used for these helicopter blades. I also wanted to push its color rendering capabilities to see if this "inking" app could be used to do a semi-tight illustration comp.