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*)

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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.