I just shipped off the .psd files this evening after fixing about six typos ... They loved it (so much better than their first comic). I'm pretty happy with it too. I'll post a page a week or so. Here is Page 04.
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Mostly sketches. Occasionally a painting. Nothing political other than caricatures reinforcing the truism "Politics is Show Business for Ugly People".
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Way to go. Glad somebody is getting something done.
I'm hoping for some greater ease with inks after a couple more days practice.
I like the line work on this strip. Were you happy? You did the pencoils, not the inks correct? It can be a bit of a freak out to see someones inks on your pencils.
Looks good Tom. I like the "transition-to-crazy" panel. When can we see the whole book put together?
Are you happy with the results? It looks pretty polished to me. I 2nd Ellis's question... how do you feel about the inks?
I enjoyed the process immensely because Johnny B. Gerardy really embellishes will with his ink work. I made basic pencils that helped establish some of the comedic beats within the narrative established by Meal Magic's representative. Johnny is much better at cloth and wrinkles, general people work, etc. I then put together the colors and letters. So for me, I don't mind someone like that inking my work because it comes out so much better on the other side. I watched the Gnomon DVD on coloring comics (Steve Firchow, I think) and that really helped too, though when I was going down he stretch and working during the midnight hours, I was much less about lots of gradient work and things got much more color-by-numbers-ish. You'll see as I post more. That's not to say it is bad, just more like Marvel did it back in the day.
As far as seeing the whole book ... I shipped all the .psd files up to Meal Magic last night and they're printing thousands of them. Johnny and I will get 50 apiece, so book your "Tale of Two Schools" signing in artist's alley next year at the Con ... ;-)
I will post the pages one a week so my postings will stretch out a bit. Method to madness and whatnot.
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