Additional details on the art method of Tempt the Messiah - more than just a Jesus comic...

People have been interested in greater details in the art method. So, I have prepared a group of images that explains things better. These samples are from part 4 (about John the Baptist and the Baptism of Christ). I am working on this part now. This work you see here is unfinished and discarded - I changed how I wanted John the Baptist to look, as well as my plans on how to present the story. That is a photo of me dressed as the discarded version of John. So, I am merely using this to show the art method.

First, I took a photo. Then I printed the photo on graph paper and drew the image on blank graph paper. I used the grid drawing approach for the pencil work (you should be able to see the yellow lines in the graph paper, as well as my numbering - click the picture to enlarge). Then I did touch-up to the pencil work with black&white painting in my art program (Corel Paint). Finally, I paint it in color layers. The paint layers are above and below the pencil layer. Most of 'Tempt the Messiah' was done using this approach. But I don't use graph paper anymore.  Instead, I adopted a similar method but use a T-square instead of the graph paper. I sometimes give more technical details to people that ask at the art forums I frequent (I did not want to bore the casual reader with all that information).