I'm really pleased that Johnny Morte passed my self-editing test, because it's a bit of a favourite and it has to be a favourite of mine because at the moment all the changes I'm making are being done with the mouse; until my new graphics tablet arrives. It's challenging, especially when it comes to making curves, although that's easy to do with something large like the skull in "Morte" which I made with the Vector tool you have to be really creative to make little things like finger tips.
I was in two minds, but I've decided to go forward with a flat cartoony look because I enjoy comics that look like comics so that makes the redrawing much faster.
I'm also putting a colour version together, and again I'm going super-flat. Once again this is a reaction to the dreadful over colouring you see today in so many comics.
I've reworked a couple of pages already and with luck, when the pen comes, things will speed up and it'll be finished before the year is out.
Go Obama!
4 comments:
The color (or "colour") really makes Johnny Morte look great.
I agree with you about hiding your projects away from yourself. Also: don't talk about them to other people. If you do, then by the time it comes to sitting down and going back to work on a project, you're bored about it because you've been yakking about it.
My Blogger Word Verification word: bunblect.
Hey thanks, Mike. You back from your wondering?
Yup, as you say, even yakking about it can scunner you toward the projects.
Mine is diopheo.
dowpun for me.
I really like this, Rod. The artwork is stunning, and for me it is the strongest style of the comics of yours that I have seen. Very dynamic, and the colour palette really adds to it.
Hey, thanks, Alex. Making up my mind about what I look for in a comic these days has helped - I figure, even if the thing is never financially successful, at least I'll like it.
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