Duncan Fegredo: PROCESS 1
Comic pages are not born fully formed. These are the early stages of my work on Mike Mignola's Hellboy.
- Foreword about art tools... I'm forever being asked about the pens I use. Here's a secret... They are just pens! There is no such thing as a magic pen or pencil, I've looked, I know! Two artists using the same tools will get completely different results, that's the way it is. Find what feels right to you and just draw, if you don't like the result, try a different pen or just practice drawing more, there is no short cut.
For the record I was was using Faber Castell Pitt pens for the line work and the Pitt Brush pen for the brush work. Not that it matters at the layout stage, but I used the same tools for the finished art. Later pages I switched to a Pilot Pocket Brush pen, now I favour a Platinum Carbon Ink brush pen. Pencils were just pencils, any make, sometimes mechanical. For blue line pencils I use Col-Erase 20044 Blue.
That's it, no more asking! 
So, Hellboy: Darkness Calls... These were drawn printed size based upon @artofmmignola 's thumbnails-Many deviations and mistakes occurred!
Page 14... This and the next 3 were the first I inked. pic.twitter.com/2lc9uVmf
Page 16... I'd better get a move on if I want to eat... pic.twitter.com/muPFWFKD
Page 17...this one come in too halves, I rethought the layout and combined them.... pic.twitter.com/Wi5WtGLd
Page 18... Ooh, multiple angles on the beast with two backs! There may have been more... pic.twitter.com/OfS9SJJi
Page 20... Getting a lot looser now, I was obviously running late and @ScottAllie was getting mighty vexed! pic.twitter.com/yIrPOvXw
