Flattened

Page 2 of episode 3 of the Word Smith is now available.  As fate would have it, I ended up colouring this page too, due to continued insanity.  Actually, I downloaded a couple of plug-ins that handle some of the more tedious aspects of doing the flatting and they sped up the process considerably.  They're not perfect, mind you, as you have the same basic problem as flood filling:  if there are any holes in the line work, the colour for an area escapes into connected areas.  This means I have to go and make sure there are no gaps in the linework which is still a tedious and error-prone proccess, though still faster than flatting by hand to the point where it's at least twice as fast.  This means I may actually be colouring a lot more pages than I had intended - or, at least, I'll probably do episode 3 fully in colour now (I have page 3 nearly coloured already).  Adding shading is still laborious though, so I may just use flat colours in the future to save time if I decide to keep colouring things, unless I come up with some better way to handle shading.

Here's how the flatting for page 1 looks like compared to what I did by hand:

It doesn't really handle hand-shaded areas very well and can produce lots of little areas, but still faster than doing things by hand, at least so far.

The sketchbook has, sadly, been a bit neglected of late due to my focus on the Word Smith stuff, but here's one of the more recent sketchbook drawings which may have some relevance to page 4 of episode 3:

Those are suppose to be swimming trunks, by the way, not boxers.

Anywho, that's all for now.

Freak Out,
-TFitC