Helioscope PDX is a comic book artist and writer collective in Portland, Oregon, USA. Here you will find interviews, educational videos, and other content relating to and created by our studio members about the craft of making comic books.
Helioscope was founded in 2002 by 11 comics artists in Portland, Oregon. Portland had become a major hub for the comics industry, with nearly half a dozen publishers calling the area home, and the number of working artists in residence had also reached a new high.
A collective workspace is a great fit for the labor-intensive and collaborative nature of comics production, and within five years the studio's membership had doubled. Originally called Mercury Studio, the group became Periscope Studio in 2007 and expanded to a new location. In 2016, the studio (now composed of almost thirty active members) completed its final rebranding as Helioscope, and is incorporated as an LLC.
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Wonderful video. So nice to hear you both talking about Trekker!
Looks like your average progressive (woke) comic book company fromt the 2020s. If I would have started to work there, they probably would have fired me within a week, because I drew women sexy and men looking masculine.
DC, Marvelllll,.... waiting for another but! Nuff said w the first two!! Lol
6:57 Darren Auck had ZERO BUSINESS teaching at the Kubert School! ZERO!!!!
I hope to see myself one day work with you guys
What is the specification of the brush do you use??
Would your drybrush technique with dissolved edges work for the background (when you depict distant city)?
Brush tips are destroyed during ink dipping and on-palette mixing. The only way to preserve brush tips in painting/drawing is to dip the brush sideways only. Your trick with the jar lid is neat, but the lid is too narrow and the bristles will bend and split to soak in the ink. I use a short glass test tube, or the so-called "self-capped centrifugal vial tube", with v-shaped bottom. Both cost a few $. Put ink in it, attach it at 30-40 degrees to your desk like you do with the lid, and then dip your brush in it. You will never destroy or bend the tip, it will be perfectly straight. While removing the brush from the tube, press the brush sideways against the vial walls, to squeeze out excess ink, which drips back into the vial. When all work is done, cork the tube; ink is preserved and stored.
I love ❤ this studio setting ❤ thanks 👍
Great video! Are you printing out the pencils onto bristol at reduced opacity? Considering that as a hybrid approach - penciling traditionally, scanning, tweaking digitally, and then printing them out again for final traditional inks.
That method totally works! Me and some of the other studio mates have absolutely done that. I hope it works out for you!
Bravo 👏🏽
how do you transfer your sketches onto the bristol?
His is literally my dream job ❤…
Hello. This was very helpful. I would think that inking was a lost art. Thank you for showing us how it's done. :)
Hey Hellio, thank you for not going to the Ai way and thank you for doing KZread.i am back into drawing again when i draw i color in as i go, do you know why ? Do i like a finished picture? Do i like coloring Do i like both because I like to draw, or is it because when i was a kid, i was doing some doodling, and now I'm trying to make up for all that lors time??? If you know, let me know because I like to draw, but i also like to colr. Thank you ❤ Do you have any comic books 📚 out that i can pick up out right now on book shelves?
What's Eryk Donavan got in his syringe?
Look at all that magic!
These shops rock the Sketchy. TY!
How much of and angle do you have when you’re drawing
Sincere question here. It appears each artist is working on their own personal projects, or commissioned projects. With that said, is this a studio that artist can rent office space? Or is it mainly team based projects but you still have time for personal projects there?
Did Paul Guinan really draw all of that on an Intous??? 😱😱😱
1k of these views are from me
😂 thank you!
Your ink line is REALLY nice
This is such a fantastic video. Thank you!!
Babe wake up, new Helioscope video just dropped.
😂
This is the largest studio in America today???? Really?
He/him lol
you guys shoulda had on terry moore
Awesome podcast!
A Philippines flag?
I wanna hang out and make comics with all the comic hippies.
I feel ya, Erika! I'm 53 and doing my first professional comic strip and sometimes (most of the time) the technology aspect drives me nuts!
❤❤❤❤❤❤ THANK YOU❤❤❤❤❤❤ I NEEDED TO SEE AND HEAR THIS❤❤❤❤❤❤
How do you have TB's without COMICS?
DUHHH
Mistake on the single
And we accepted all that loved comics, but rejected anyone that was less than us.
Yea, But I am Dragon's Keep
Sounds like you want to talk about yourself?
Where is ROry?
Lovely lines you get with the brush. I dont like using the ruler either, especially for inking, it looks too cold. And its tedious of course :)
i wanna start one
Solid inking video🔥! How do you clean and store the brush at the end of each session?
Hello. I hope someone can answer this question. I have a story that I envision being done in 4 parts/floppies. Can I or should I do four campaigns - one for each part. Or do I need to do all four parts simultaneously - graphic novel/trade paperback (one campaign)? Thanks
My instinct is to say do 4 separate floppies. That way they’ll be easier to fund, complete, and will gradually help grow your Kickstarter following.
Really good video, thank you so much.😅
Guarantee the phantom bodies dude is a chick now lmao
YIKES!!! I'll stick to inking on vellum. lol
Jimmy olsen dress like a bride?
Back in the day when I thought I would be a professional artist and even went to accreted art school. Two things told me the stop art school and find another way to make a living. Number 1, Those that graduated from the art school. What was the percentage that went on after graduation to work in the art field at any level from teaching art, selling art or making art and the reality was maybe 5% unless you considered painting houses. Number 2. How many advertisements or recruitment organization in print or the internet are looking to give an artist a job? Before the internet you would like in the classified section of the major cities to find a job opening. And in my 5 years of looking for an art job I only saw 2 and both were large department store looking for someone to decorate their windows. If you want to be an better artist today by far the best place to learn is on the internet and free too. I am now 77 and I still like making art with my drawings and my sculptures but nothing is for sale I do it for my own pleasure. However I am a millionaire today and retired in Thailand and I made my money working all over the world for oil companies as a construction manager.
What will work better? AMB animation academy vs cal state san bernardino