Gllb. Is there smoke coming out of my ears yet?

[astridv]

Must find out how to get a frame around the page, but I have about 10 minutes left to get some food... gonna crosspost to ats_endofdays later. Hungry.

(eta: found food. found out how to fix border.)
(eta2: oops. Forgot Angel's scars. *mental note: add manly scars later*)

Comments

[jwaneeta.livejournal.com]

Gorgeousness. It works panel by panel and as a page. And it's funny! The very cement blocks are lovely. I'm awed by the limpid color in the first panel. Damn, that's some pretty.

This is perfect. And seeing Angel and Spike together, as God intended, sends my heart into blissful birdsong. :D

[astridv.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm really happy with it, too. But damn, colouring that thing was a piece of work. Often when I colour it doesn't seem to progress for hours, then it suddenly *clicks* and everything is falling into place. This page took a good while to click. There's just no way to do this fast if I want to get this kind of result.

Are you lettering this by hand or Quark?

Hand. I don't even have Quark on my computer though at times I sorely miss it. Word is inadequate for typography. I'll have to go hunting on ebay.
I think even if I had Quark I'd still hand-letter. I like traditional techniques. I still learned calligraphy at art school. Nowadays the freshman start right away with Quark. I suppose that approach works as well, but calligraphy comes in handy at times, and it's fun.

For convention's sake I'll mention Heroic Proportions. In comicdom the male is, oh, hell, 9 or 10 heads high, proportionally. Trust me, this project is so good, in so many ways, that no one will ever give a toss, but if job-wise you ever consider comics (I hope in many ways you dont, because it's massively a bitch) you might hear something about heroic proportions.

Yeah, I know of these proportions. And struggle with them continually. Possibly because I'm coming from children's books where you got more like a 7-8 to 1 ration (to a six-year-old, even a teenager will look grown up). Personally I find 9-10 rather extreme though, I think that applies to US comics rather than to European which I grew up on. But I think it would still be a good idea for me to aim for that, and maybe end up in the middle at a comfortable 8 heads.


This is perfect. And seeing Angel and Spike together, as God intended, sends my heart into blissful birdsong. :D

Spike and Angel together is a thing of beauty. Snark and dislike and aggression on the outside with some hidden, unexplored and totally denied feelings on the inside... what more does a fangirl want. I know far from everyone agrees but I think getting Spike on Angel (ahem, the show) was a brilliant move.