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May 29, '08
I've been inking this one page over the past couple of days, and it's been sort of a piecemeal operation. A couple of pages back, I wrestled through a page with my brush-pen and decided that in learning how to use it, I had utterly killed it. Thankfully the next page had a lot of detail and going back to my fineliner wasn't too much of a stretch. The page after that I did in my old combination of thick and thin pens, but I started to really miss my brush pen. (Yes, I've been very productive this week. Good for me.) The page I'm working on now, I started with some of the lettering in my fineliner and then inked one face, then stopped.
Last night I finally got to go to Michael's and buy a new brush pen. I also bought a set of liners that they didn't have last time I was there. I was really interested in the .1mm for fine details, but didn't mind buying the other three sizes in the set to try out. After I got home and to work again I decided to switch to the .3mm liner for lettering and the .7mm for panel borders instead of my felt tip, but that the .5mm probably wouldn't get that much use. So I took it out of the package and put my brush pen in instead. Now all my favorite pens are together!
I also saw the french curves in the store and it reminded me I had a couple up in the closet, so when I got home I got them out and started using them for my speech bubbles.
This all probably doesn't mean much to most of my readers, since none of my work with the brush pen has gone up. The brush pen is a little bit messier than the style you're seeing now, but I think it has more life. Also, someone on the CG forums was saying how they miss the "handmade" look of my earlier comics. I was pretty messy with my pens then, and I think the brush pen brings back some of that quality, but it's still a better medium. I don't know if that makes sense.
I have been industrious, but I haven't done any coloring. I've got three pages inked and scanned just waiting for whatever color I might be willing to give them. Or maybe someone else. In fact, I advertised on the CG forums to see if anyone wanted to try coloring my work for me. As of now, no one's replied, and I'll probably just continue doing it on my own, but it would be nice to have someone else coloring my work who really enjoyed that part of the process for its own sake. It would probably look quite a bit better than my coloring. But I'll get back to it when I cease to be inspired by writing, drawing and inking and want to do some more mindless work.
I've read Ender's Game a few times now, but this is the first time I'm reading Ender's Shadow. It's more suspenseful than you'd think for a book where you know a lot of what happens already. It's threatening to keep me up 'til dawn.