One-Page Complete

The comics workshop continues apace. Since the last post on the subject, the one-page comic series of homework has been finished. This was done in two steps: penciling and then inking.

Above are the pencils for my version of the one-page comic. I penciled directly over the non-photo blue rough work and scanned it in using the greyscale setting on my scanner. As can be seen, the non-photo blue lines have disappeared, no further work required.

The next step was inking the art work, with my results shown above. Unlike the mini-comic that I did over the summer which I ended up inking largely with the brush, this was inked using a nib pen, which was the aspect of inking which the workshop covered last week (we'll be doing brushes later on). I used four different nibs for inking, one for each row of panels. In reality, I'd probably use different nibs for different parts of the drawing, but as I'm new to this, this was a way to try out some different nibs without having to worry too much about specifics. One thing of note, I forgot to draw in the pattern on the father's vest in the last panel - how I missed such a large detail, I don't know, but oh well.

The nibs themselves were interesting to work with - easier to control than a brush, but more flexible than a normal pen, plus they make an interesting scratching noise when drawing.

I should probably also note that I didn't erase the rough work before scanning, which is mostly visible in the word balloons and the lettering guidelines (created with an Ames lettering guide).

The next series of homework walks us through the creation of, in theory, a six page mini-comic. For the purposes of my workshop, I'm suggesting a two to six page mini-comic, depending on how ambitious each participant feels, or how much time they think they have. I'm still not sure how many pages I'm going to tackle, but I'm hoping to try for at least another four page one.

Well, we'll see how things go.

Freak Out,
-TFitC