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Inside the Cartoonist’s Studio: Jules Faulkner

Knight-and-DaveThis post has been submitted by Webcomics.com member Jules Faulkner, creator of Knight and Dave.

Hi there! I’m Jules Faulkner. You might remember me from such comics as Knight & Dave, Promises Promises, and the Monstrosity Anthologies!

My work space, (I call it the nerdery), is one of our spare rooms. I cobbled together three pics so you can see most of what it looks like from the door*.
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The opposite side is just a closet where I keep my shipping and convention stuff and a bookcase of reference materials. Oh, and my “accounting system”. Yeah, that pile of receipts and post-its in the metal trays. It’s a little unruly at the moment, I keep month-end reports in Quick Books and sort all that stuff out then.

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I love working on the Cintiq, but I’m still a little old-school in my process. My comics usually start at my old animation desk, that’s where I do almost all of my thumbnails, rough work, swatch tests etc.

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I have a thing for tikis. A friend once told me that they’re actually some kind of bad luck gods. The idea being that if you pay them enough attention, they’ll leave you alone. I don’t know if that’s true, I keep meaning to look it up, but it amuses the heck out of me so I keep my art supplies in a set of tiki mugs. This way I also know they’re getting enough attention every day… just in case.

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Once I’m done there, I move over to the computer, check my RSS feed and fart around with my email and social networks for a bit, probably have a snack, maybe play a little Hearthstone. Eventually I get around to scanning in the drawings then I drop them into Manga Studio for clean up and colouring. Photoshop for lettering but I do my writing in my sketchbook and Scrivner, which is a phenomenal program. The pinboard feature alone is worth the price of the software. I prefer the yoga ball to a chair and recommend it to anyone, especially if you get pains between your shoulders if they’ve been sitting too long. Does wonders for me.
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This concludes our tour, please exit through the gift shop.

*Before you say anything, my Mum made those curtains.

by Jules on May 13, 2015
Posted In: Community, Studios
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