Hi all:
Still inking and learning how to ink. So this week I decided to post the 2 page spread with dialog. Took my longer than I planned to finish, but here it is.
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Hey, guys. I'm Joe (I post all the weird looking art LOL). My Father (James) is in the Hospital suffering from ammonia. I know that fear is not of God, but I'm still so afraid I'm going to loose him. If you could say a prayer for him, I would be so grateful.
So I have made some improvements in inking, but it all came yesterday when I had alot more time to draw. I even strapped a paint brush to the back of my wrist so I would use my elbow and shoulder more in inking. Think it helped(?)
So I'm trying to learn inking. Really trying hard to learn inking. Went back over the previous pages of this project and inked them. I'm a novice at inking, what can I say.
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(any tips on better inking techniques I'm open to 'em).
"Cold Enough to Freeze Your Tongue to a Pole" part 3 (click for full comic)
"Cold Enough to Freeze Your Tongue to a Pole" part 2 (click for full comic)
Hi All:
My plan was to post my progress from my art project this week, and I was hoping to go to fedex office (formerly Kinkos) and use their large format scanner to scan in some previous stuff so I could touch up in photoshop and start posting online. Unfortunately the pencils were too faded and could not get a decent render. So the truth became inescapably obvious: I was going to have to start inking. Never really wanted to ink to be honest, just wanted to draw and contribute to the story. So I pulled out a 2 page spread I did as part of an art project last year and spent pretty much the rest of yesterday and this morning inking. More frustrating than I thought and I did learn something. Now I'm hoping I can adjust my routine at the drawing board to incorporate inking as the last step to save some time.
First two pictures are before and after, and the last is the touched up image in photo shop. Post one like and one dislike, but if you wanna dog the inks I wouldn't blame you, it's my first time.
have at you.
"Cold Enough to Freeze Your Tongue to a Pole" (click for full comic)
Also, this is the 100th LABS strip, which is hard to believe. Praise the Lord!
I got the impression that with the modern way Comics flow from page to page, I thought the 2nd page of the book should be a full page or 2 page spread. Guess I read too many comics. Anyways, 2nd page is a full page comp since I didn't want to do a 2 spage spread this early in the story, and finished early for the week, so I'm ahead of schedule for this month(knock on wood)
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This week's comic points out a little hidden joke that's been around for two years.
Also, this is the end of year two/beginning of year three for LABS, and I've got a big announcement.
Thank you guys for all the encouragement over the last two years, and I'm looking forward to the next one!
It's definitely been a week of change. Typical for the first week of the new year, but this one feels like alot more change has happened than in the past new years.
Anyways, first page is done, and I'm stoked.
I have a loaned laptop with photoshop and did some touch up, but since I have photoshop now, I need to scan in for better quality. Of course my scanning bed isn't that big, so I may need to start scanning in at kinkos, (possible money drain).
Here it is, comment on 1 thing you like and one thing you don't like.
Happy 2018 everybody.
Either I take longer than I should on model sheets, or I underestimated how long I should spend on model sheets. Here's what I've worked on this past week. I didn't post last week because of Christmas and being out of town to spend it with the family. And getting back fighting jetlag, shortened work week and my parents stopping by, I didn't have much time to work with and didn't utilize the time I did have. Guess time management should be my goal for 2018.
These are some characters I'm working on for my first project of 2018. I hope to get this one done in under 4 months.
"Robocall" (click for full comic)
I drew this strip almost two months ago, but I thought it was a good one to end the year on, so I've been saving it.
I am impressed to make a not so grandiose resolution: to strengthen my friendship to someone. 1Thessalonians2:8 reminds me that the heart of the Gospel is not just in meeting physical or spiritual needs of others but, to the degree that we make opportunities, to befriend a small number of people.
Technology both makes this easy on a surface level and harder on a deeper level; deepening some connections necessitates cutting off other superficial contacts in order to give us more time and focus.
A small inspirational quote from CSLewis:
“I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
