We're back! Here's the update this time, and it's a big one.
What's Done So Far:
-The Preview (Issue #1/3 - The Home Made Edition) is inches away from being done.
-Scanned, Colored (Well, Greyscaled), Drew a Cover, Lettered, Formatted, and Designed the Preview. I'll post some pics. It's not perfect, but I think it's sorta handsome.
-A little more story work...
So, last time, I mentioned the writing end of things. Now, we'll get into:
The Art and Design Part:
Pre-Production:
This is where you just make stuff up. You doodle. It's not even really an organized activity, until there's a mighty pile of ideas beside you. After that point, it's sort of like catching fairies in a baseball glove, cause you're trying to make these weird little thoughts into drawings on paper. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. (I use the "don't work" pile, by the way.)
Shifting tenses, after I put a few of my doodles together to make sure they could exist on the same page, I found some cool "concept sheets" that I got at a comic store ten years ago, and I drew Character Designs. These are basically the LAW as to what your characters look like. These will also go into the submissions packet.
Production:
Roughing It:
I explained this on the prior "Making Of..." page.
This is the Art equivalent of a "First Draft." It doesn't have to be pretty, it just has to show you if your idea WORKS. If you do this right, then it's WAY easier when you start...
Pencilling:
You draw your crap with a pencil. That's it.
If I do a really tight rough (working out funny angles and visual issues before they hit the Expensive Paper) this part just FLIES for me. When the rough sucks, so does this part.
By the way, I use Vellum Bristol Board (thick-ass paper that has a moderate "tooth" and costs way too much). And I use whatever pencil is close. I wish I could find my blue one.
Inking:
Tracing.
Or correcting poor pencilling. You decide.
I use double-ended Sharpie markers. Screw those $5 technial pens. $1.78, Wal-Mart, 2-pack, and I'm good for an issue and a half, man.
That's that. We'll talk about (errrgh) computers next time. BYE!!
