Sep 4, 2018
Page 2 of "I Did Nothing" development
Anatomy of a comic book page. From blank page to finished art in 7 hours, 50 minutes. Content measures 10 x 15 inches. Trying to emulate one-sitting page making.
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Page 2 of "I Did Nothing" development
Anatomy of a comic book page. From blank page to finished art in 7 hours, 50 minutes. Content measures 10 x 15 inches. Trying to emulate one-sitting page making.
The End of the Doctor, Breakdowns
"The Dead" live-sized (10 x 15 inches) thumbnails, the last 8 pages. "Replace" panels were redrawn on separate sheets. I'll use a lightbox to trace these onto good paper for final art.
Breakdowns for "The Dead”
Live size layout (10 by 15 inches) for Doctor Who fan fiction comic book story "The Dead," page 6 of 11.
How I Write a Script These Days
I develop the visual and text at the same time, starting with the Larry Hama method of cramming the story into predetermined layouts. In practice, this is way too restrictive.
Instead, I work on scenes with no regard to layout or page count. It's really storyboarding. Dialog is loose and minimal at best. This particular story ended up with 48 panels. Dividing this by my average of 5 panels/page makes this a 10 page story.
Revisiting the Hama Method, I organize the pages on index cards. Merging everything from storyboards, random notes, and new ideas took about 2 days.
All of this process is to produce the first draft of a full script, broken down into pages and panels. This is the phase where I try to "hear" what my characters are saying and feeling.
Process: Agent D/Director Explainer Art
The first image is a sketch on 9x12 inch newsprint. I scanned, enlarged, and printed it for tracing onto good paper. I then tightened the pencils, hand lettered, then inked the final art. Constant script rewrites led to lettering errors, which had to be corrected on separate paper. Somehow it all came together in Photoshop.
In tightening the pencils, I regretfully lost the Director’s hunched forward body position.
Red Sonja vs. Agent K...in a Typography Battle to the Death!
For the text pages of Inky Stories #6, I’m trying to match that of 1970s Marvel Comics. Dug out my long-lost Spec-O-matic to compare my Inky Stories #4 pages to an actual 1970s comic. My version looks was big, so I made a test page to print and compare. After some trial and error, I'm going with 7/9.6
Intro to Inky Stories #6, work in progress
My first hand lettering in weeks; of course there are typos! I’m using Speedball B-6 nibs (B-5.5 for bold,) with Ames setting 4.0 even-spaced. Art is 12 x 11 inches.