More test thingies

[sigune]

I am, as you know, very busy experimenting with all sorts of techniques for the final version of the comic. Below are two pages from the storyboard that I used for testing Photoshop stuff on. The first page has been coloured digitally (it's Nekkid Ygraine from page 66, so you may possibly not want to click it at work, even though she's just sleeping, I dunno); the second one has been lettered digitally with a free font from Blambot.

Please let me know what you think!






I coloured this in a very simple way, and relatively quickly. The result is not too bad, I think. But next, I tried to colour the page below and soon discovered that everything gets really complicated and time-consuming once there are several frames on one page :/. Part of the troubles originated from my use of vector paths as panel frames. I won't need to *draw* frames in Photoshop in the final version, so that's a bit of mess I wouldn't have to worry about, but still: my skills are not quite up to scratch.






I rather like this font. It's not difficult to letter in Photoshop, and to be honest, I kind of enjoy getting neat letters in neat lines. I never draw lines when I hand-letter, just because it's too much of a bore. But the result tends to be a little bit ... well ... amateurish :). But ... do you like the digital version?

Comments

[septentrion1970.livejournal.com]

Yes, I do.

[veradee.livejournal.com]

The digital letters are fine, but they look like many letters in comics do. Your own letters are more individual.

[valis2.livejournal.com]

I do like the font! It's crisp and very familiar, of course, because it's so comic-book-looky. ;) The digital coloring is interesting and I'm excited to see what else you do!

[todayiamadaisy]

I also like your hand lettering, which makes it look unique rather than amateurish. :-) I like the digital font, too. My only concern is with words like 'withering' in the first pane, 'you' in the second panel and 'happens' in the third: I can't tell if they're just wobbly or they're meant to be in italics. The words that are bolded and in italics stand out better.

I also like the coloured panel. That looks great.

[bettyboop-comic.livejournal.com]

Colour looks OK, but I'm not terribly thrilled by it. Can't really say why, I don't think it's something technical.
The lettering is great. I figured Blambot would be the thing, and that looks about how I prefer lettering to look.

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