Thursday, July 10, 2014

Progress, slow but steady





I have to apologize for not paying as much attention to this blog as I thought I would but the work getting these books ready has been keeping me very busy. I am working on four comics simultaneously, I hope to have at least two of them finished for TCAF 2015 if I get in. The stories are plotted lots of the page layouts have been done and I'm drawing/inking (reinking in some cases) and getting everything organized.
It's a huge undertaking doing this alone each "side" (as I'm calling them, a side is half a page) has many steps, I haven't even begun to scan or "greyscale" colour the pages (I'm doing all the interiors in black and white to save money on printing) yet. Then there's the work of adding the panel frames and dialogue bubbles then putting in the actual dialogue. It's a huge job, you can see why a team makes a comic and not just one person and I want my books to be as complete looking as a professional comic.
Above are some panels and notes from the four books.
Head over to "the mad craft shoppe" blog (see links, right side) where I'm having a Summer Sale to help pay for the printing costs.
A.Shay Hahn