Changing things...(hopefully for the better)

We have changed how we do things. (what else is new!?) But really...our page making process is drastically different than from what we started with.
So I decided to post a blog entry detailing how I make the pages! There really is no reason for this, except the fact that I'm bored and it could entertain me and possibly some other people. So this is what happens...
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1. I read the page of the script that we are working on. Currently we are only on page two of the handwritten script version of the comic. Here is a sample. (hee hee. Laura's handwriting...)

2. I then go "Huh?" and say "Laura I don't know what you want this to look like, I'm so lost. Why did you say that? I don't get it. Can you help? This is so not cohesive..." Or something like that. So she draws me a sample of what she's thinking the finished panel might look like. So here's that:

3. Of course, I then go "Well!" and twist her ideas (with permission of course) and expanding ideas, change the original script a little, until we get a rough sketch of what the line art for the complete page might look like. The anaotomy and flow might be a little off, and lines are definitely not straight. This is because we are dealing with IDEAS. That, and we're lazy.

4. Then I convert the rough version to the big paper! I draw in a large floor pad so I can have more paper to detail and design. Even at this final stage I change how the page is set up and how it flows, but for the most part...it stays the same. After the pencil sketch is inked over and erased...I cut up the image! Cut cut, snip it up! (GASP!) But no worries, I do this so it can fit on
my scanner.

5. Then I take it into a program and splice all four individual images so it looks like it's whole again. (The wonders of computers...) This is the final line art. Now it just remains to be colored!

Autumn Comics...

September is here!
It is the first seasonal change since the beginning of The Nestarican! *blows party horn*
Both me and Laura are really busy this fall...she has Romeo and Juliet, guitar, homework...the whole social life thing.
I mostly have work at the Childrens Center. Three Stars is coming and I am completely revamping my classroom before they show up and evaluate my kiddies. Plus I have two new kiddos coming in this month...which is always alot of work.
Goals this month: Improving panel quality, raising the page output per week...
and possibly setting up a newsletter for our readers?? I don't even know if we have readers. Besides Fipi...I know Fipster reads em! *another toot at the party horn*
ANYway...this month is going to be busy and GOOD. Good busy.
-Candice