1. After I've written out the basic dialogue/narrative for each panel, I draw and ink the page. At this stage I don't include the speech bubbles or captions, as the text may still change. If you have a copy of the first book, "Lost Southern Cross", you'll notice that the speech bubbles and captions are drawn in by hand prior to including text. Following the final edits, this resulted in some cases of oversized bubbles/captions with very little text, and some cases of undersized bubbles/captions with too much text crammed into them. As a result, for the next books I decided to add these in the final step of the process, rather than the first.
2. After the page has been inked, I scan it to my computer and clean it up in photoshop. This first involves maximizing contrast without losing any detailed line work. This is done by adjusting curves, increasing contrast, and in most cases manually filling in gaps and lines where appropriate. Once the page looks clean, I adjust the image size so all the pages are exactly the same size. At this point I add in the panel and page frames with the line tool.
3. I now consider the page complete until the final edit of the entire book is complete. Once the final edit is complete, I add the speech bubbles and captions in photoshop. I'll dedicate another blog post to how those are created.
This image represents a completed page, prior to speech bubbles/captions being added. It's also an example of a page with no action so I decided to use different style and composition techniques to add visual interest. #Inktober
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