I hope you are enjoying reading Bug Pudding. I get questions about the creative process which usually inspire these behind the scenes blog posts. My current production process is a mix of media. I typically sketch characters and poses on paper with a pencil.

I then scan the various rough sketches into my computer and do my layout work in Sketch Book Pro. It allows me to rework the roughs as required, scale, rotate, flip the drawings and use layers to overlap characters to achieve a desired layout.

Next, I save the layout to a PNG formatted file with a transparent background so that all I see is the line art. I’m then ready to “ink” in Illustrator.

I work in a really large format using as much screen desktop as possible. This is great for getting in all the details. Above is a shot of a single panel that has been inked and digitally colored. The inking  and lettering is done in Illustrator, the digital coloring is done in Photoshop and then the final art and text are reassembled as a composite back in Illustrator.

Here is a view of a full strip in its final form prior to being saved to size for publishing on the web site. I hope you enjoyed a brief glimpse at how the Pudding comes to life.