Sketches in blue

Last week I transferred the thumbnails with blue pencil. Sketching in blue keeps it loose and processy... you can play with it more and it's not the whole world if you must begin anew, because it's just a sketch in blue pencil.
The page below is interesting because I'm not sure if I'm going to keep the top panel as it is...

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Next chapter

Last week I introduced my web comic, Pilgrim. It felt really good to put it out there, and let people read it. This week I've started working on the next chapter. I've been doing and re-doing thumbnails of the pages. I usually don't bother with keeping the characters on model at this stage, but some panels turned out fine!

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Pilrim is launched!

Yes it's true ladies and gentlemen, it's finally launched! My first venture in the web comics and comics field! It's up and running so head on over to it and read, the link is to your right and below:

http://pilgrimserien.blogspot.se/

It feels go-ood!

After spending some time in front of the screen and decide how to publish my comic, I decided to do it with Blogger, because I already know that tool and it's nice and easy for me to use and that makes me a happy man! I took a glance at comicpress but you needed some hard programming skills that I don't possess, so I let that one go, I also took a gander at the various webcomic places on the web but I didn't really find one where my comic would place. So Blogger it is! I truly think it's a win-win situation, it's easy to use and easy on the eyes to read and as a reader you don't have to spend time waiting for pages to load!

It will be very interesting to see where this will take my comic. Will it be read? I hope so... Speaking of reading I decided to publish it in the language of legends and heroes...Swedish! I did this to stay true to the script that I've written. But in the future there might be translations. But I don't think it will be that hard to follow even if you don't speak the language.

There will probably be things that I miss along the way, one can only try so much to do it right. If there will be things that I missed, like facts or other stuff, I will take the opportunity after the final chapter to write an essay or article where I put things right.

Now it's only to go ahead with the second chapter!

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Coloring and the Exorcist

Last week I've been coloring my pages with Photoshop. I'm done with my first pass and today I'm going to look at the pages to see if there are things that needs to be sorted out. Hopefully the first chapter will soon appear on a net, close to you. In just a few days...it's so close now I can almost feel it!!!!!

Tomorrow (30/10) I'm going to give an introduction to the screening of the Exorcist, at Gothenburg University Humanisten at 18.00. Be there or be square!

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Inking done?

Well, almost... As I wrote last week I had to re-ink some pages, and I'm going to take a look at them with fresh eyes today to see if they are alright. This thing with fresh eyes is very important, because some drawings you think are great one day, might not be that great the next day... If I give them my thumbs up, the inking is done for this installment of the story. So with any luck or whatever you might call it, they are going to get scanned and colored, and put on the web! So stay tuned!

A discovery that I've made during this particular process is that classical music lends itself greatly for inking. Many years ago I bought some themed compilations CD sets with classical music, and these couple of days I've re-acquainted myself with them, and they work, very well! Classical music and inking is a great combo!

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Do over!?

Well, this week I've finished the inking and I was ready to scan the pages, or so I thought... After having another look at them I realized that the process had only begun. So today I'm going to have a serious look at the pages and see what I'm going to do about them. Some pages will be re-inked because some lines are very nervous looking and scribbly. And we don't want that now, do we?

Last week I forgot to tell you that I've done two illustrations for a magazine! It's called Sesat Magazine and is published by Religionsvetenskapliga Föreningen at Gothenburg University. I will tell you more about it when it's published, if my memory serves me right it's going to be available both as a paper product and online.

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The inking continues

Here is a page that I've inked:

When I've inked them all I'm going to go over them ones more to make sure they are alright.

Is this an accident waiting to happen?

Of course I'm referring to the flask of ink, do you say that in English or do your say container or bottle? And also the fact that I have to reach for the button on my lamp under the drawing board to switch it on and off... It feels like I'm only a moment of unawareness from having a big black ink blot on my keyboard...  But the main question remains, is the iMac keyboard ink retardant?

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