the progress shots for my zine of despair piece. I started with digital thumbnail sketches because I couldn’t get pencil and paper to work that day, and then everything else turned into traditional. I got a lightbox from my datemate, which meant I could get some actual clean ink lines without mussing them up by erasing the pencil underneath, which was new to me and also very cool. Can’t recommend that enough, hahaha.
I scanned it only once during the process to preserve the lineart before coloring. Everything else I took pictures with my phone camera.
But oh my god, coloring. I was so careful and gentle with my pencils at first because this color palette is so incidentally limited. I didn’t want the black leather to blend in with one another to the point of losing the details of the characters asdjlkhf, so I was coloring this for a whiiiile.
I’m coloring most things for a while because the coloring purgatory is real.
But the patience and care was worth it, I think. I got a lot of compliments in the discord group about how I made that limited palette work for me. That being said, the amount of pigment I insisted upon at the end really curled the paper, and I don’t think any amount of sitting it under weights helped solve that lmao.