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A comic book page... right...
AcidSerra
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Okay I sat down the other day and sketched up about 4 pages of a comic book in a couple of hours. Of the four this one seemed the most viable.
My scanner doesn't do 11x17 so I had to take a picture, and I photoshopped the text into the rough areas of where text bubles would be.
Small copy, 677x1024
http://www.thetagamerz.org/images/page2b.jpg
Big copy, 2k+x2K+
The picture is going to be over 20,000pixelsx20,000pixels, you are warned.
http://www.thetagamerz.org/images/page2.jpg
The big copy is kind of redundant, but hey, I had so why not add it.
I'm open to critique, in fact thats why I'm posting it. Art, pacing, layout, whatever sticks out I'll be glad you critique it.
My scanner doesn't do 11x17 so I had to take a picture, and I photoshopped the text into the rough areas of where text bubles would be.
Small copy, 677x1024
http://www.thetagamerz.org/images/page2b.jpg
Big copy, 2k+x2K+
The picture is going to be over 20,000pixelsx20,000pixels, you are warned.
http://www.thetagamerz.org/images/page2.jpg
The big copy is kind of redundant, but hey, I had so why not add it.
I'm open to critique, in fact thats why I'm posting it. Art, pacing, layout, whatever sticks out I'll be glad you critique it.
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You are correct, and it is fixed. (I'm apparently a wee bit more tired than I thought I was.)
What I could make out looks a bit appealing because it doesn't seem to follow traditional style (some might murder me for this comment but I'm no artist and just like to see some variation on traditional formulas).
My overall suggestion: make it darker.
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In the second panel, one of the hazmat guys is grabbing the arm of the injured character. The POV has been through sunglasses, which can be hard to see becuase their lines are even lighter, and now blood is starting to cover the lenses.
In the last panel, the person is looking at the ground, most likely while being hefted on a shoulder, while the sunglasses slide off and fall towards the sidewalk.
Anable: Thanks, I didn't really want to take a photo because I knew my lines were on the lighter side and my lighting wasn't very good, unfortunately I don't have a big scanner so I made do. Mostly now I'm going to go back with a ruler and make the panel edges straight, then I'll probably start on some basic inking.
Virium: You're absolutely right, there is alot of wasted space. I didn't notice it as much until I saw it in the computer, but damn I left alot of that page untouched. I could definitely have fit an entire fourth panel in there, I'll have to look at it for a while though to figure out how to keep my disjointed panel format and use the space though...
What?
I think he means for if you're scanning an oversized image, since the OP compained about 11x17s being too large to sacn... photoshop has a tool that automatically stitches scanned in photos together. It's under File > Automate > Photomerge, but it's not all that effective. If you're scanning in as a bitmap the file sizes should be pretty small anyway even at really high DPIs, so you can just use cut and paste to line up your scanned in chunks together.
I guess I'm too lazy to just open up Photoshop and see for myself.
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