Far Out There: Madlib 3 - page 7
Added 2017-12-30 02:13:58 +0000 UTCOOOoooooh, gradients! That must mean I ran out of funny faces to draw in this page!
Slightly random, but the first batch of these pages took a LOT more editing than I expected, and the reason is kind of hilarious. I went back to drawing these comics in singe, whole-page chunks rather than drawing each panel separately like I usually do these days. I thought that'd make things go faster, and it certainly did speed up the inking, but then I scanned the things and each one was a MESS. I'd gotten so used to scaling each drawing down to just a fraction of it's usual size that I forgot just how many little bits of artistic sloppiness were getting covered up in the process. There were all KINDS of splotches and stray lines and spotty bits where the marker wasn't thick enough that were right there in the open when you left the art at full size. So, basically, my attempt to make things go faster ended up slowing everything down, as always.
That's not the hilarious part, though. No, the kicker is that it's NOT as if I never draw comics in one chunk anymore. That's how I do pretty much all Conventional Wisdoms, and I almost never have this problem. I KNOW any slip-ups will show a lot more in those comics, so I'm usually a lot more careful to keep the markers where they need to be. But since THESE comics are Far Out There instead of Conventional Wisdom, some part of my brain decided that I didn't need to be as careful. Apparently "drawing Far Out There" equals "drawing WAY more sloppily since it'll all be fixed in MangaStudio anyway." That's... really a habit I need to break.
