My Night With Tina Turner

Date: 08/25/23
Tags: #commission , #comics

I recently completed two comic pages for Paul Harrill of Self-Reliant Film. The comic is an autobio peice about his first time seeing Tina Turner live, and a tribute to her influence in his life.

Paul reached out to me because he was interested in exploring making comics and graphic novels. I agreed to produce some comic pages for him, and the process went very smoothly. I enjoyed working from his script and he gave lots of great feedback as I worked.

I was familiar with Tina Turner, but hadn’t spent much time learning about her before this project. I watched performances and collected images of her in Bob Mackie dresses on pinterest for reference. I was a bit intimidated trying to capture her incredible stage presence and energy. I don’t think I quite nailed it, but I am happy with how the pages turned out, and her appearance is definitely the highlight.

Keep reading to hear about the process behind drawing the pages, and watch the timelapse of the process

I wanted to do a slightly more realistic stylef or these pages, where the faces were more structured. Not sure if I succeeded, it’s really hard to change the way that you draw. The client asked for screen tones, so I was happy to continue my journey into clip studio’s screen tone features. I downloaded some new tones from Halftone Hospital as well as from the clip studio database. I’m still learning how to use screen tones, but I love the effect that they give the pages. It adds so much character and texture to a comic page immediately.

A Morbig Longing for the Picturesque at All Costs / The Witch

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