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JUAN DOE ON…HOW HE PUTS A PAGE TOGETHER | | A WizardUniverse.com mini-Basic Training lesson | | | By Rachel Molino | | Posted July 25, 2008 | |  | | For all you aspiring artists and DIY junkies out there, here's how Juan Doe constructs a page, using a sequence from his recently released The Joker's Asylum: Scarecrow one-shot from DC Comics.
"Everything pretty much starts as thumbnails. So I'll take the script and I'll take an 8 1/2" by 11", and I'll probably do, really small, six pages and one giant page, and lay out all the beats of the story, where I think the characters should be, really simple. And then I'll take it one by one and just sort of flesh it out about half the size of what comics would be, pencil that out, scan that and then from there I go right to finish. There is no inking stage, just right to finish and Photoshop—I do a combination of painter and Photoshop, whatever else I do as an artist. It was a fun project and I totally loved it." | | 
STEP ONE: GO WITH THE FLOW
"Here's breakdown of Page 4 of the Scarecrow story. It's the first appearance of Jonathan Crane, aka the Scarecrow. The pages are broken down at about half the size of the actual page with very rough pencil sketches meant to capture the ‘flow' of storytelling and block in the large areas of shape and composition. | | 
STEP TWO: TWEAKS AND FORMATS
"The rough is then scanned, re-sized and templated to the standard comic book format. In this stage, the proportions are tweaked and the borders are created and the overall file is prepped for the color stage."
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STEP THREE: SETTING THE MOOD
"As there are no additional fleshing out of the pencils or inking involved, the roughs provide enough information for the final execution which is done in full color. Working with a multitude of patterns and textures, the backgrounds and furniture are created first. The characters are worked on afterwards in flat colors, and the final stage is rendering and working with lighting and mood."
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STEP FOUR: THE FINISHING TOUCHES
"The final page tuned with textures and some color balancing. The way I did it was, I used very simple designs, and it was the first book that I've done where I haven't included any line work, it's all just shapes and colors."
For the Thursday Morning Quarterback review of The Joker's Asylum: Scarecrow, click here!
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