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yan roadkill & bike art<br />

What’s your production process?<br />

Is it ink and paper or<br />

tablet based?<br />

I definitely use computers<br />

and a Wacom tablet to speed<br />

up the process. Magazine<br />

work can have a very short<br />

turnaround time. It’s not my<br />

preferred method but if I need<br />

to get something done in a<br />

couple of days then I’ll whack<br />

out a design on the tablet and<br />

digitally produce it from start<br />

to finish. The way I do like to<br />

work - and I do this 70% of<br />

the time - is to pencil-out a<br />

sketch for a client, get the goahead,<br />

refine the sketch and<br />

tweak some bits. I’ll then take<br />

it to a Light Box and brush the<br />

blackwork in ink. I’ll ink it by<br />

hand and then scan it. I’ll then<br />

digitally colour it from that<br />

point on. Digital comes into<br />

the process all the time purely<br />

because a lot of the stuff I do<br />

gets screen printed, so to set<br />

the layers up is much easier.<br />

If the opportunity arose where<br />

I can do an illustration by

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