Inkling - my Inktober project
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First panel looks great. @Camomilla has a good point for focal point but the other side of the coin is that you can definitely work more detail than light/shadow. It all depends on what you're comfortable with and how you push your medium.
Check out Geof Darrow, he uses all line most of the time and focal point with color. TBH I get lost in his work sometimes, mainly his older work. That being said he has progressed with his technique and he creates focus by putting little detail where he wants the reader to look.
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@BradAYoo feel sorry for the colorist on his work...lol....
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@evilrobot HAHAHahaha! I was thinking the same thing...
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An exclusive preview of the finished first page
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This great. I should have planned a project like this. Looking forward to the rest of it.
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@evilrobot It took nearly two months of work already. This will be the third (though inking goes about five times faster than drawing, so I can spare a bit more time for my other stuff). My inking skills are pitiful - it is worrying how much patience I lost by working digital for so long. Really flabbergasted by how much work goes into a graphic novel - now I have a much higher admiration for comic artists! The positive thing is that breaking down a story into panels is something I enjoyed enormously - and it gave me lot of other ideas....
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Sneak preview of finished page 2, which will be posted tomorrow. I am posting half a page a day approximately - maybe sometimes I will be able to finish a full page. Technically it is not one drawing a day (more like inking 4-5 panels on already done pencils), but Inktober was a good excuse to tackle this project!
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Looking good and great cliff hanger. I know how much work this is I use to do a weekly webcomic it's a LOT of work. Kudos for taking up such a difficult challenge.
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@evilrobot Is it still online? Would love to see it!
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Only a few strips are still online at a free comic site.... HERE I let the domain go years ago.Lucky for me most of them are gone now except these I can't seem to get rid of them. The internet is forever I guess. It was a not so politically correct strip comic it got pretty raunchy at one point and I look back on it now and I'm not proud of it.
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@evilrobot Oh yes, I see what you mean. Not exactly a goodnight story...;-)
Still, I have been thinking about webcomics since I read a very insightful book by Jason Brubaker, the author of "Remind", which is apparently a pretty successful web comic (I do not follow his comic, but his book - which talks about self-promotion for artists - is very good). -
@smceccarelli I think a very good use for a webcomic is to promote your product. Like this one http://www.scurrycomic.com/ he did the webcomic and it was so popular that he ended up with over $90,000.00 on his kickstarter. I've seen this a couple times. So if you can get something that really catches attention it could make for a really nice pay day....
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@evilrobot Yes, I see what you mean. Brubaker does the same. Still, it is really a LOT of work....I must have spent at least 8 hours per page only for the pencils - and it would have needed a lot more - this is more of an experiment to learn...
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@evilrobot Mac Smith is an awesome artist and scurry is a beautiful piece! I am taking inspiration from him on a graphic novel contest over at scholastic. I only hope my pages turn out as great as his.
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@smceccarelli Can't wait to read the rest
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Really great first page @smceccarelli.
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Sneak preview of finished page three - I think I am breaking all inktober traditions by doing this, and I do not even know how to post this stuff on social media properly.....but, as Chief Bogo would say "I just don't care"...;-) It´s an enrichingly useless and uselessly enriching experience!
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Page 4!
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Page 5. I do not have the feeling that my inkling skills are getting any better.....
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@smceccarelli This is looking good. I think you're doing great. I actually think you could get a job doing this. It's just as good if not better than a lot of stuff I've seen from the major publishers. I like the story telling and the pacing.
