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Episode 7 Commentary: Backgrounds on the Quick and Dirty

I’ve been getting a lot of nice feedback on the backgrounds in Petra’s Call, so I wanted to do a tutorial on how I do them in Photoshop.

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A BIG part of my processes for Petra’s Call is speed. Every step needs to be fast. I have about 14 hours a week to write, draw, color and “Flash-up” each episode, which is roughly equal to 2-3 comic pages.

This is the process for doing the mountains, but the same principals apply for the trees, mid-ground and foreground and can also be applied to interiors.
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Teh Hotness – World War Robot Armstrong

Big Toys are Awesome Toys
Big Toys are Awesome Toys

Ashley Wood is getting ready to unleash his latest World War Robot toy – the mighty Amstrong.

World War Robot is a part book/part toy/part soon to be iPhone game.

The books are a collection of paintings by Wood, illustrating the robot war between Earth and Mars.

The toys – which are giant (some close to 2 feet tall) pieces of awesomeness that fully justify the $200+ price tag. The style, details, articulation – gah. If you cut these things open with a knife, they would bleed awesome.

These bots sell out fast, so if you want that bad-boy Armstrong up there, you had better be at the Bambaland Store on Aug 18th.

More WWR from Amazon:
World War Robot Volume 1:

World War Robot Volume 2: