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To tide you over until the next episode: Examples of the steps that go into making each comic!

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Hello fellow adventurers! It’s been nearly a month since we posted our first episode, but there are still a few weeks to go before we post our second, so I thought I’d tide you over with a demonstration of the different steps that went into making episode one, “Dragon”, for your delectation. Hopefully it’ll be… Continue reading Intermission: How to Make a Comic – Page 1

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So the first step… WRITE A SCRIPT! That’s Eric’s job (and he does a fantastic job, his scripts are excellent!), but I don’t have any screenshots of it, so let’s move on…! So, the second step… DRAW THUMBNAILS! After I receive the script from Eric, I sit down and sketch out a bunch of rectangles… Continue reading Intermission: How to Make a Comic – Page 2

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Layouts! The layout stage is usually very quick. Using the thumbnails as a guide, I put in my panel borders, and roughly place my words where they might be when everything’s drawn. This lets me fine-tune the panel sizes and page compositions to look the way I want them before I get too heavy into… Continue reading Intermission: How to Make a Comic – Page 3

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And now for the tricky part… DRAWING THE DAMN THING! Yup, not much to say about this. This is where most of the work goes, drawing, redrawing, moving, fiddling… until you have something useful to work from that you can ink without too much guesswork. This is where I finalize the composition of each panel,… Continue reading Intermission: How to Make a Comic – Page 4

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INKING! This step takes a while, but most of the guesswork should (hopefully!) have been figured out during the drawing stage. This is where you take the time to clean everything up and make it look nice… hopefully you get a nice result when you’re done!

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And lastly: Colour! I spent a lot longer on the colour for this episode than the others because I wanted to start the comic off with a bang. But yeah, a LOT of work goes into this stage. You start by filling in all the lines with flat colours and then start shading, then highlighting,… Continue reading Intermission: How to Make a Comic – Page 6