A veteran of several Star Trek<\/i> comics, artist David Messina<\/b> explains the process of how to create a Trek comic.<\/p>\n
As reported by Trekzone Network<\/a>, Messina begins with lots of drawings, to better understand what he needs to do to draw a specific character. “My process is particular because my first concern is to handle the character’s likeness without becoming addicted to the pictures,” he explained. “Because Star Trek<\/i> is such a huge universe, each book has a different main character. I usually start with a lot of sketches to bring something to the character, understand how it must be drawn. Then I start with the rough pencil of all the pages. I always think that a good comic book should be ready without balloons, without the caption.” Does Messina have a favorite Star Trek<\/i> character? “…My absolute favorite of all is Spock,” he said. ” It’s my favorite character because Spock is from my childhood.”<\/p>\n But other characters appeal to Messina too. “I really like Sisko from Deep Space Nine<\/i>,” he said. “I drew Sisko in a small panel in the second issue of Klingons<\/i>. But IDW doesn’t have the rights to publish Deep Space Nine<\/i>. I would have liked to draw a story about Sisko. Seven of Nine surely is the most lovable and really, really gorgeous. And then my favorite character was Picard. I really enjoyed drawing Intelligence Gathering<\/i> especially because I could draw Picard.”<\/p>\n After working on Star Trek: Countdown<\/i>, Messina adds Nero to his list of favorite Star Trek<\/i> characters. “I really like the character of Nero because it’s a dark character with strong motivation,” explained Messina. “It’s really a special character. Violent, but I can understand the reason of all the violence. So maybe Nero along Spock is my favorite character of all Star Trek.”<\/p>\n To read more, head to the article located here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A veteran of several Star Trek comics, artist David Messina explains the process of how…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2456],"tags":[2755,2756],"class_list":["post-5714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-david-messina","tag-star-trek-comics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T'Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"Books<\/a>","tag_info":"Books","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5714"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6828,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5714\/revisions\/6828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
“So I work on the circling,” Messina continued. “Then I start to finish the circling with the pencil. Then I start with the inks. After that I send the inks to my colleagues…for digital coloring. We spend a lot of time talking about the project, how the color should be and sometimes I add already some background.”<\/p>\n