Entry tags:

omake, updates

ch01, 51-54

• pages 51, 52, 53, and 54 are up


• added prev-posted designs to GALLERY


• fanart added in FANWORKS


• xkcd and Three Panel Soul in LINKS

Thiiis would've come earlier if a sudden bad cold didn't hit me. On the bright side... These pages came out ridiculously well. So!

Though I'm still suspcious that I'm drawing an ellaborate storyboarding project, not a comic.

Site news fairly self explanatory @ update list. But I should mention: I changed the weights a bit of Gain and Reach in keyplayers when I realized I must have made them up drunk cause THEY WERE MUCH TOO LIGHT.




...Well! I guess for bonus this update I decided to show the page process of my fave page? So if you're curious how I draw up the pages:

1. Look at the script!




2. 
   
   First I sketch it out. The starting sketch is VERY messy and pretty much only comprehensible to my eyes (and even then, sometimes... XD). I first add a scribble to either the left or right margin to remind me which said of a hypothetical book it would be on. In this case, scribble is on the left, so it's a right page. I then lay down the panel order/layout, speech bubble locations, and put an extremely rough idea of what I want on the page with a lot of scrawled notes to myself to remind me what that mess of lines is SUPPOSED to represent, or what I want to change upon refining the inking. I very rarely follow 100% exactly what I lay down, as I VERY FREQUENTLY scrap and redo panels four or five times each--not that this page shows that, since it was pretty on the ball.




3. 
   
   I create a new layer and nicely set up the layout and speech bubbles. I know a lot of folk put in the speech bubbles last, but I work more comfortably with them there first.




4. 
   
   I start lining! This cap has both the quick jot-downs and the more detailed refinement after I go over it. As you can see this is ENTIRELY where I do the actual drawing.




5. 
   
   The finished lineart of the page! I add in the black as I go, airbrushing for gradient effect in places. I used to do it on a seperate layer but it turned out to be more trouble.




6. 
   
   And the toning. I don't actually spend as much time on toning as I should, since it's the last step of the art and by the time I get there I want to get it done done done. So it's really kinda sloppy. ...I'm always amused when I get complimented on it though.




7. Aaand then crop, text and resize for site viewing :3

Pretty unexciting isn't it? Well it's something XD







Oh, and some wip work on the redraw of the chapter spread (because it bugs me just That Much):







W-well. Until next week! I mean it???