Balloons and Bonus Content

Welcome back! Yesterday, I finished off the first page of my comic experiment! Ok, well, I actually technically made some last minute dialogue changes today, but the important stuff all got done yesterday.

The final step was to add panel borders, word balloons and dialogue which was done digitally in Illustrator:
I actually had the comic page underneath all that as I was putting it in so I wasn't guessing where to put things. I used the method that Scott McCloud presented in a recent tutorial. A little bit tedious, but not too bad once you get the hang of it.

And here is the final page, all put together:

And here are some links to a larger and even larger versions, for those interested in taking a closer look.

Finally, here's a couple of extra sketches I did as part of the CGL presentation:

Hard at work.


In a flurry.

Well, that's all for page number one! It's certainly been an interesting experience and a chance to learn some new things (like inking). I guess I'll start working on page two at some point, though since I don't have a deadline for it (like with this page) I don't know when it will get done. I'll just keep plugging away and it'll be done eventually!

Freak Out,
-TFitC