Pepper and Carrot

[Jana]

Dear all,
within the last weeks I continued working on a fan project which I started to present here in an earlier post.
The main characters and the world were designed by David Revoy (http://www.peppercarrot.com/) (License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 ). The story was written by Juan Josè Segura (https://segurajj.wordpress.com/2015/10/08/a-pepper-carrot-script-the-storm/). I am lucky to contribute to this awesome project with illustrating Juans story. We would very much appreciate if you would give us some feedback or comments about it . Here is the first page:

[Jana]

Some more panels for the next pages:

[Di07]

Looks like a story I would love to read, I like your use of colours

[Dan Tavis]

I love your line work and color palette (=

[smceccarelli]

Would really love to read this story, the characters look very likeable! Love your composition and use of color. I would suggest spending more time designing the typography - it does not look fitting to the beautiful line drawing. Maybe hand lettering?

[evilrobot]

@smceccarelli I agree the the lettering looks generic compared to the wonderful art. You need a better font or some hand written text.

[Jana]

Thanks, @Di07, @dan-tavis, @smceccarelli, @evilrobot for your feedback and comments!
I will definitely work on the typography, I think I will go for handwriting. Thank you so much for that idea. That will be new for me, so if thesomebody can give my any suggestions, they are very welcome.

[Jana]

Hi guys! I am just preparing to work on my typography. I found a great source of inspiration, not just for comics. It might also be interesting for you, if you look for picture book lettering or title fonts:
http://www.1001freefonts.com/

[Timbdsf]

Oooh, I love your designs. Great work!

[Jana]

Following @smceccarelli and @evilrobot I started working on the lettering. I started with the text bubbles. What do you like more: the original one, using a GIMP font or the hand written text? I would say that the hand writing fits more to Peppers lively character. But I am not sure and would like to hear other opinions. Thanks in advance!

[smceccarelli]

@Jana I definitely like the second one better. But maybe you can try to transform your own handwriting into a font? Jake Parker mentions how to do this at the end of his course on drawing comics.

[Jana]

Thanks for the feedback! I will definitely try that.

[Jana]

@smceccarelli
I installed my own handwriting font. It was really fun working on that. What do you think? Is that appealing enough?

[smceccarelli]

@Jana I think this looks beautiful - and it has the same personality as the drawing!

[Jana]

Thank you so much, @smceccarelli! That means really a lot to me.
I will change the other text accordingly, and I will also see if I can improve the soundwords.