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I'm currently working on Spindrift, the Next Thing that ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rachelmanija and I are working on. I'm thunmbnailing it out right now - for those of you who don't know what that is, it's when you work out each page of the comic in a small version so you can see the whole thing at once. You keep it small to force yourself not to worry about the details, but about the overall composition and balance of darks and lights.
I finished thumbnailing the whole thing the other day. I'd started out sketchy, to get a rough idea of the placement of people and objects, but once I got into the fight scene, I got fairly detailed because I wanted to get the poses down solid. And I kept doing that for the rest of the thumbs. I'm now going back and redoing the earlier thumbs to be more tight, because I think that it'll make for significantly better pencils that shouldn't take as long as they usually do.
This is the sort of thing I started out doing.
This is the sort of thing I'm doing now. (Obviously, the second page is only half done, equally obviously, it's not the same two pages as the ones above. I'll try to remember to grab a copy of the pages above when I finish them, so you can compare more easly.)
Here's an example from the fight scene, when I first started getting tighter with my thumbs. Sorry to disappoint, but they are not actually butt-nekkid during the fight.* I draw them naked at first because I need to know what their bodies are doing underneath their clothes at first.
"telophase!" I hear you say. "telophase! You say thumbnails are supposed to be small, but these pictures are huge! What gives?!"
I'm not lying when I say they're small. They are only about 2" tall ... at 300 pixels per inch. I have to convert them to 72 pixels per inch for Web display, which means they display larger. The change in resolution is why they tend to be pixelated or fuzzy - I'm working at very teeny sizes. (They'd be big black blobs if I were working at 72 ppi.)
And now to bed. Luckily it's spring break, so I can get a parking place when I meander in late.
* That comes later.
rachelmanija and I are working on. I'm thunmbnailing it out right now - for those of you who don't know what that is, it's when you work out each page of the comic in a small version so you can see the whole thing at once. You keep it small to force yourself not to worry about the details, but about the overall composition and balance of darks and lights.I finished thumbnailing the whole thing the other day. I'd started out sketchy, to get a rough idea of the placement of people and objects, but once I got into the fight scene, I got fairly detailed because I wanted to get the poses down solid. And I kept doing that for the rest of the thumbs. I'm now going back and redoing the earlier thumbs to be more tight, because I think that it'll make for significantly better pencils that shouldn't take as long as they usually do.
This is the sort of thing I started out doing.
This is the sort of thing I'm doing now. (Obviously, the second page is only half done, equally obviously, it's not the same two pages as the ones above. I'll try to remember to grab a copy of the pages above when I finish them, so you can compare more easly.)
Here's an example from the fight scene, when I first started getting tighter with my thumbs. Sorry to disappoint, but they are not actually butt-nekkid during the fight.* I draw them naked at first because I need to know what their bodies are doing underneath their clothes at first.
"
telophase!" I hear you say. "telophase! You say thumbnails are supposed to be small, but these pictures are huge! What gives?!" I'm not lying when I say they're small. They are only about 2" tall ... at 300 pixels per inch. I have to convert them to 72 pixels per inch for Web display, which means they display larger. The change in resolution is why they tend to be pixelated or fuzzy - I'm working at very teeny sizes. (They'd be big black blobs if I were working at 72 ppi.)
And now to bed. Luckily it's spring break, so I can get a parking place when I meander in late.
* That comes later.