VIDHERO WEB STRIPS

this mad inking is a blast. giant blacks everywhere! wee!
For some reason i keep getting the idea I should go in and make lots of white strokes in the black. Then the same kind stokes, with black, in the white. weird. until everything is full. like a woodcut. WTF? maybe this is just the nature of working with wacom pen tool.

Uh, Well, this completes our first slice of this storyline. I still want to hold this one back a bit. last year i just did this storyline as a single strip, the first few times it was used. This time, it’ll probably just be three strips for a while (to fill one page, in the final book printing). Is it noticable how all three of these were actually one big drawing? hmm. Guess it’s better if it isn’t clear, since they’re dripping out one at a time. i dunno.

… I’m slightly worried about the grammar. If you read these three back to back, the first two refer to the past. This one is in the present. is this a rookie story telling mistake? or is it ok to have past and present mingle in a comic page… I’m of two minds on this. hmm. advice? chiding? anyone?

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Alsoooo, I’m SURE no one will get this. but. The middle frame here is supposed to be from the Point of view of the mummy looking lady on the bed. She is looking out through the gauze wrappings, seeing the man. This is also why i justified messing around with the lighting in that middle frame. kinda blowing him out, and putting all this white into the black areas. as if her eyes perceive slightly differently. This could pay off later…
but the notion that I didn’t draw it well enough for people to notice it (probably), makes me think maybe it should just be swept under the rug. hmm. ?

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And in the final “frame”, the idea is that we’re looking over his shoulder. But the side of his face seems pretty lame. weak art. sorry. especially the bottom of his shoulder area. what was i thinking? hmm. It should be much more whispy, like the first panel, two strips back. eh.
but apparently I find mysel in different “moods” on these different nights, and the art just comes out very differently. hmm. (another reason to keep this storyline brief at first. Give myself more time to get consistent with the art approach).