Watch KC Green’s video on YouTube.
[dc]O[/dc]ne of my favorite cartoonists, KC Green, uploaded a process video to YouTube, and well y’all should give it a watch.
Green condensed five hours of comic making work into a 30-minute video. It is 30-minutes well spent. Green is best known for his comic Gunshow, which spawned the oft-ripped off This Is Fine Dog, a favorite of meme factories, content stealing Facebook pages, and bootleggers all over the Internet.
You can buy official merch and books featuring the This Is Fine Dog from KC Green’s store. Please do (I own this shirt and this Gunshow collection). You can also back Green on Patreon (I do).
These days, Green works on Back (along with artist Anthony Clark) and He Is a Good Boy. Both are recommended reading (He Is a Good Boy is suggested for mature readers, however). The video shows Green working on two pages of He Is a Good Boy.
I love watching how other cartoonists make their comics, and Green’s video gave me a few things to think about when it comes to my own process.
For starters, I liked his method of using Evernote for his comic scripts. It makes sense. Green backs up the text “in the cloud.” As I just switched to lettering all of my comics with digital font, I may give this a try (maybe not with Evernote, we’ll see). Being able to paste my text right from something into Clip Studio Paint is handy. I do this now from OpenOffice, but that’s after I write it out by hand in my sketchbook.
I haven’t really played around with Clip Studio Paint’s word balloon tool much, but after watching Green’s video, I think I should.
I’m always looking for ways to improve, and watching another cartoonist’s process always helps.
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