Gatillos

Another page released. This took a while, mostly because of the layout. Also, I had even more text on the first versions. I still worry that it won't be understood, but explaining every little detail is not the best solution as it creates boring pages. Let me know if this makes (or makes no) sense.

Technically not much to say this time, maybe only that mixing multiply and shading layers creates some very weird artifacts in Inkscape but I was too lazy to workaround them. Basically a rectangle around some areas goes bersherk and decides it wants to be a different shade. See if you can spot it.

Another page, on schedule, even with years coming and going. It's amazing. Who would have known. I'm not particularly proud of the shading in this one, as I didn't spend enough time doing it, so don't look at it :).

For the technically inclined: Every panel was drawn by hand, scanned, had the saturation reduced to 0 and then levels applied to make a smooth white background. Then I put all the panels into a 'multiply' layer. I tend to draw individual panels on my sketch book, and do the composition with Inkscape. It's really fun to see how many options one has to tell the same story. I usually have a few versions of each page, changing layout, balloons, panel sizes. I don't think I could do comics in the classic style, i.e. drawing a whole page and scanning it.

Update: Fixed grammar typo, added a couple dialogue lines.

A little more on the background story, flashback and all. Don't worry, I promise it will make sense in the end. Kind of :).

Technicalities: I discovered, thanks to some random stranger in the internets, that it's better to forget about extracting ink via transparent images the way I was doing it, and using Multiply plus level calibration to remove the paper texture and the pencils instead. It's worth mentioning that these days I don't even erase the pencil before scanning, it goes away magically, for such is the miracle of computing. So you just take a scanned image, alter the color levels to make a smooth white background and put the resulting image into its own layer on top of all other layers, with a filter of Multiply. It works wonderfully.

Hope this one is more or less understandable.

Oh look, another page. Now, I know there are some things that will appear unclear. Well, let your imagination run free.

Oooh delayed publishing! Not much happens in this page, but it's necessary for the next one, which by the way will be published this weekend, so as to keep the pace.

I'm improving the ink extraction process, or I think I am. Let me know if you see any difference.

Story goes on. Mystery unfolds slowly. Guesses welcome.

Technicalities: All panels drawn by hand, scanned, ink extracted. I didn't have too much time for shading, and I still think it looks a bit weird, but hey you are supposed to be reading, not focusing on the little details :P.

The story continues... I have decided to end this story shorter than anticipated, otherwise it could go on forever. I'd say I'm halfway through so far. After finishing it I might continue with the same characters but focusing on a different story.

Technical: I'm in the process of replacing the font used everywhere, I couldn't get a hold of a valid license for the previous one I was using. I'm also using upper case for text.