Monday, October 31, 2011

I've Got the Non-Photo Blues

Cue jazz solo.

So. As I mentioned previously, the current homework series for the comic workshop I'm running is a one-page comic using a script supplied by the textbook (having everyone use the same script gives a chance to see how different people handle the issues in creating the comic and compare results). For this week, we were doing the penciling and lettering. I'm not quite done yet (I'll be finishing it up tonight since the workshop is tomorrow) but figured I'd post progress so far.

I drew the rough pencils using an erasable non-photo blue pencil. Non-photo blue means that it's not supposed to show up when copying / scanning. As you can see above, the drawings are very faint, except the places where I pressed harder (probably too hard) whilst sketching. It would probably only take a little tweaking on the scanner settings to eliminate it entirely so it's nice to know that the pencils function more-or-less as advertised.
Above is the version with inked lettering and panel borders. All that's left for this week is to do the final pencils with a regular pencil.

Freak Out
-TFitC

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