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

[sigune.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Colouring this one thingy has already taught me a few things - such as that I need to keep track of the sequence of my layers. It's probably best to work from the background up... If only I could predict how quickly (or not) I will learn to use Photoshop!

As I said to Valis, above, digital colours would allow me to cater to two audiences because they make it possible to have a colour version while keeping my inks intact. (I think that the simple technique I used in this test would work better with inks than pencils.) But as it is now, if I manage to make something decent-looking in Photoshop, it's more a case of beginner's luck than a result of skill :/.

You are right about the italics. I bolded all the words in italics in another file, but I forgot to replace this jpeg. It's something I have to keep in mind for this font.