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astridv ([personal profile] astridv) wrote2006-10-04 03:08 am
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comic by yhlee and myself: page 7/12, coloured & lettered





I just looked through my back posts... I started drawing this comic about four months ago, aiming for two pages a months. With seven pages done, it looks like I'm gonna finish it this year as planned. I might even be able to contain it in eleven pages instead of the projected twelve, depends on how well I can get the final panels to fit on one page. Right now the ending seems a little rushed if I do that but we'll see. Anyway, more than halfway done. :)
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[identity profile] yhlee.livejournal.com 2006-10-04 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
I still love the DEETDEETDEET. :-)

Also, as much as Spike is a great foil for Angel, in Haddyn Gunn is the more logical complement. :-D

I love the way we go from orange shading in the top two panels to the darkness of the city to the green of the bottom panels.
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[identity profile] makd.livejournal.com 2006-10-04 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
OMG, but this is GORGEOUS!

Thank you so much for doing this and sharing it with us.

[identity profile] a2zmom.livejournal.com 2006-10-04 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I love the two of them so tiny in this (to Gunn) strange new world, which isn't that different after all.

[identity profile] vom-marlowe.livejournal.com 2006-10-04 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
This is *gorgeous*! I love the richness of your grays, some warm, some cool, and how alive the cityscape feels.

May I ask a few art geekery questions? I assume that's watercolor, but what sort of paper are you using? Is it the same as what you've inked on? (I find paper good for ink to be incompatible with paper good for watercolor, which is why I'm wondering). Sorry to be nosy, but I love the way your color and ink are both so good. And, are you using dip pens or permanent markers?

[identity profile] vom-marlowe.livejournal.com 2006-10-04 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, so glad my total geekery isn't offputting. It drives my family nuts. :) Yeah, I'm an artist. Quit for a long while, but have been at it again. I blame manga.

Will have to get my grubby little artists paws on some of that Fabriano paper. I love watercolors but haven't been doing much of them lately because I've been doing so much black and white stuff and if it turns out well enough I don't want to risk adding the color over it. The idea that I could put that through a xerox machine, Ooooooooooooooh.

I will also have to try the Zebra pen you mentioned. I'm highly addicted to Zebra brand G-nibs, which I can only find at WetPaint Art. I have a Sakura and a Faber Castle Pitt brush pen that I like okay, but they aren't as controlled as I'd like. I tried a Tombo, but just my damp skin smeared marks all over creation, so that one is Right Out. I've never tried the Copic line of multiliners, have been mostly using the Pigmas. Mmm, pens.

Thank you so much! I'm really looking forward to more of this comic.
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