BSA215, final comic colouring, 31 October, 2016

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Not so lucky last:  I had an hour of mouse painting at home and half an hour the next morning with the pen and tablet.  The words and bubbles are the next priority.  I got halfway finished before I had to turn the comic in.  I'm going to get a reduced grade for the assignment, but I should be able to get it bubbled in time to have it printed.

BSA215, comic colouring, 27 October, 2016

lava pit inspiration and texture for The Machine's lair

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Now, I have to deal with my problems!
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I have to bring the bear and McMurdo back, finish off The Machine and link it to the final page 16:

Well, nothing to do but to do it.  I might have better luck finishing it up if I work out the script first.  Then I'll know exactly what I have to show and say in order to wrap it all up.
Before that, though, I've reordered page 3:

Revision 1 v. revision 2

BSA215, Comic colouring, 26 October, 2016

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2 more pages to go for colouring and page 15 needs the drawings/story finished to connect back with page 16.  Then bubbles and words and some rejiggering here and there for story sense.

BSA215, Comic Colouring, 25 October, 2016

If I want to have as many blog entries as I did last year, I need to do 55? before 31 December.
Can. I. Do. It???
Should . I. Try???
Anyway, more comic colouring.  The deadline approacheth!

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These snow filters don't look as good as I'd hoped.  HOWEVER.  Pushing forward.

Only two finished tonight because they were 75% yesterday.  Three more are now 75% done and should be finished tomorrow.  Yay!!!

BSA215, comic progress, 21-24 October, 2016

I blogged way too much about my comic progress last year and filled it with entry after entry of tiny changes.  This year, I'm just going to post when I've finished colouring them.   As I'm not saving on a day by day basis, either, I hope that I'm not headed for disaster.  I have saved line versions of everything, so fingers crossed...

I can see the face on the back of the cover, but will anyone else?  I was inspired by this image:

and decided to have Amelia Earthart's face looming over the scene in the background.  It may just read as a face... I hope to connect the story dots within the comic.  Of course at this point, finishing seems like it's going to be THE achievement, and not comprehensibility.  Hmmmm.   No soft turn-in Monday because of the holiday, so totally done for the 31st?  Ten days to go!

 Page one:  I spent 5 hours colouring this a few weeks ago and realized afterwards what a huge mistake that was.  Looks good, but my process needs to speed up significantly.

Page two:  My plan was to repeat the same action over and over (colour her hair and face, then do her clothes, then do somebody else, etc.) but got excited and finished the whole page.  I was so close, anyway.  The colouring process feels much faster this time because I did all of the experimenting and failing and succeeding last year.  I'm just pushing forward with what I already know.

Word bubbles will probably be added again at the last minute.

I have to make 19 pages (page 20 will be an ad for SIT because everybody knows that Sea Monkeys are totally fake) which includes the front and back cover.  I've gotten 5 done as of Saturday morning.  Hooray!!

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Page 4 is in progress, but I'm trying to leave problems until I've done everything I know to do and there are two panels that need better drawings.  I may yet get back to it this weekend, in which case I'll post the update in sequence.  

I decided that I liked the flow of having everything happening in order so much that I swung back and made myself fix the problems with page 4 now rather than later.  The figures behind Pierce and his spotlight were badly drawn so I went worked them up and the colour, too.
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I've put an "oldy timey" colour mask over the flashback scenes which I hope will help the viewer read them as such.  Word bubbles should do the rest.  And some time and date markers.  I've also added bits of The Librarian skulking around in the back.

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BSA215, comic research, 17 September, 2016

amelia Earhart's plane (obviously, not the one she disappeared in) at the Smithsonian

I don't draw planes and I'm not going to spend any time practicing when I've got 16 pages of a comic to format and finalize for the pencils hand-in Monday, so I'm tracing over them.  And a little bit of her, as well.  Bad form, yes, but needs must.

BSA215, perspective illusions

street art illusions

street art illusions

stair illusion

BSA215, skeleton and muscles, 5 September, 2016

BSA215, The Machine's minions, 2 September, 2016

Inuit woman 1929

Alaska State Trooper winter

Arctic fisherman

Arctic

BSA215, cover and polar bear art, 30 August, 2016

 When the cover is folded, the aurora borealis over the volcano will be on the back and the foreground polar bear and people will be on the back.

This Polar Bear charging.  To or from what: TBA

BSA215, comic story and character proposal, 27 August, 2016

As a continuation of the story from last year, I'm adding in The Machine (aka Amelia Earhart), This Polar Bear, and The Librarian to McMurdo, MacIntosh and Pierce.

BSA215, face and pose practice, 25 July, 2016

This is the colour scheme from the last comic.

 librarian face and pose practice

BSA215, dynamic poses exercise, 1 August, 2016

Draw fully fleshed out figures in each of these poses:  Storytelling, Dynamic,  Display and Alluring

My drawing is very sketchy on these tablets, so the black lines aren't awesome, but I've discovered that I LOVE how it looks with the erased line work into the flat colour blocks.  I'm going to have a think about whether I continue with old style or try to use this new style.