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Behind The Scenes: Last COMIC SPOILERS
🕑 Added 2019-04-01 15:42:12 +0000 UTCHey!! If you read these--how have you been enjoying them? Do you also use the Discord? Please let me know what you think about these progress + happening posts!
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Don't mind me or my scrawling thumbnails for the last pages of Check Please:
And last but not least: I got initial colors back from my flatter!
I still have hours of colorings to do, but....look at this? This page from months ago is beginning to look complete. The image above is desaturated since the hues aren't spot-on, but the values work really well.
Above: Bitty Writes His Senior Thesis Via Texts To Jack Zimmermann
- jack is copy/pasting Bitty's texts into a word processing app. He just checks back every 5 minutes with a "oh that's interesting" "wow" "can you give me a link to that recipe".
- It's 5AM and Jack's awake and intermittently texting Bitty "wow the war really changed things" and then texting Shitty "Bitty's been writing for 9 hours"
- Jack wakes up at like 9AM to get on the plane:
Bitty: AND IN CONCLUSION
Jack: oh good
It's kind of hard to deciper, but the above image is the creation of a creme brulee
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π¨TINY SPOILERSπ¨
Okay, spoilers because this is a later page in Year Four. But IT'S NOT MUCH OF A SURPRISE.
- surprise jack and bitty are cute and like each other
- spoilers; SOMETIMES THEY SMOOCH
π¨/TINY SPOILERSπ¨
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And not spoilers--a warm up:
And some Q&A from the Discord:
Q: If Check Please were to be animated, would you prefer everyone to be rendered in the style of your comic (like manga-to-anime), or would you like it to be different style(s)?
If Check Please were animated, I'd like for the style to be close to my one? The re-designs would be slightly different, I bet. But hopefully face shapes and how I draw hands, for example would be similar. And like...my line weights?
Q: Do you always freehand the lettering for the comics or do you sometimes you a font that matches?
Re: Lettering - I rarely do lettering by hand! It's pretty time-consuming. But I'll probably create my own custom font--based on my handwriting--in the future. My friend Gale Galligan did this approach with their Babysitter's Club pages and it really works well.
Comments
Michele C (BookGeekGrrl)
I do *occasionally* check Discord but I really, really like these recaps since Discord is such a huge distraction - so sometimes I just have to cut myself off.
Ngozi
Okay, thank you for the feedback! Discord can be a HUGE distraction. (Another app for ya phone;;;; :^) ) so I'm glad these posts still work for you!
I haven't gone on the discord yet, though maybe I'll get around to checking it out eventually? But it seems like it might be too much of a distraction (as if I don't have enough of those) - I tend to only do chats if they're focused on writing so they actually help me get things done. So I love these posts!
Ngozi
Okay!! Thank you!! I get some engagement information and it does seem like a lot of people are checking in--just wanted to make sure they're doin' okay. :)
I'm not on Discord, so I appreciate these summaries!
