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Inking Considerations
Idle Spirits is coming this Friday! Yes, on Halloween! At long last! How many exclamation points can I use!?
A week before Idle Spirits starts up, I have several pages drawn, but none inked yet, because I was still debating how I wanted to ink it. Originally, I was planning to do it like these series of images. Part of the reasoning is because I thought it fit the story, and, yes, I think that style has broader appeal. People are shallow. They like pretty, and a very narrow type of pretty. And if I get people reading my comic just because it's pretty, so be it.
But.
That way is okay once in a while, but I actually find it rather tedious. I like bold lines. I like Terry Moore's artwork. After going back and forward a lot, I really like solid blacks, including on characters' hair. Especially since I've lost use of ComicWorks, and have no screentones.
This is the first test image I did. And I was very happy with it. But whenever I ink this way, it seems I'm simultaneously not "manga enough" and "too manga." Whatever. I think it's pretty without looking super "girly." I love it. It looks so clean and professional.
The main hurdle was trying to figure out how to do Derica's hair with solid black. I could see it in my mind's eye, but it took a few missteps before I whipped out the Sharpie marker. It may sound stupid to most people, but I wanted to make sure I could keep her hair texture more or less the same, which I can! (I'm not quite sure how to do Adelle's loose hair at this point, but...I have plenty of time to figure that out.)
As with any other art thing, I have to give it a few more tries to make sure it wasn't a fluke the first time. Derica's hair is actually even more fun to draw now =)
And I had to see what a puff would look like on her. (Oh man, I'm getting hair envy over my own character. What's wrong with me?)
So this is what Idle Spirits is going to look like. Next step, the coloring style. Eep. But I have time, the website's going to have a black and white layout for now.
Also, I was originally planning a M-W-F update schedule, but decided I'd rather update once a week with at least 3 pages. It doesn't break up the story so much, and I can post more pages if I happen to get more done.
And in really uninteresting other news, I'm thinking about switching over to Scrivener (Mac only, sorry!) to handle the writing for Idle Spirits, since it's working out really well for my Big Bang Challenge fic and plotting my NaNoWriMo novel.
Idle Spirits is coming this Friday! Yes, on Halloween! At long last! How many exclamation points can I use!?
A week before Idle Spirits starts up, I have several pages drawn, but none inked yet, because I was still debating how I wanted to ink it. Originally, I was planning to do it like these series of images. Part of the reasoning is because I thought it fit the story, and, yes, I think that style has broader appeal. People are shallow. They like pretty, and a very narrow type of pretty. And if I get people reading my comic just because it's pretty, so be it.
But.
That way is okay once in a while, but I actually find it rather tedious. I like bold lines. I like Terry Moore's artwork. After going back and forward a lot, I really like solid blacks, including on characters' hair. Especially since I've lost use of ComicWorks, and have no screentones.
This is the first test image I did. And I was very happy with it. But whenever I ink this way, it seems I'm simultaneously not "manga enough" and "too manga." Whatever. I think it's pretty without looking super "girly." I love it. It looks so clean and professional.
The main hurdle was trying to figure out how to do Derica's hair with solid black. I could see it in my mind's eye, but it took a few missteps before I whipped out the Sharpie marker. It may sound stupid to most people, but I wanted to make sure I could keep her hair texture more or less the same, which I can! (I'm not quite sure how to do Adelle's loose hair at this point, but...I have plenty of time to figure that out.)
As with any other art thing, I have to give it a few more tries to make sure it wasn't a fluke the first time. Derica's hair is actually even more fun to draw now =)
And I had to see what a puff would look like on her. (Oh man, I'm getting hair envy over my own character. What's wrong with me?)
So this is what Idle Spirits is going to look like. Next step, the coloring style. Eep. But I have time, the website's going to have a black and white layout for now.
Also, I was originally planning a M-W-F update schedule, but decided I'd rather update once a week with at least 3 pages. It doesn't break up the story so much, and I can post more pages if I happen to get more done.
And in really uninteresting other news, I'm thinking about switching over to Scrivener (Mac only, sorry!) to handle the writing for Idle Spirits, since it's working out really well for my Big Bang Challenge fic and plotting my NaNoWriMo novel.