Inking has begun!

Inking has now begun!

To change it up a little I'm testing a new paper, that works just fine. My main concern was if the ink were going to "bleed", it seems not to.

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Clean up done? + a call...

Yesterday I kind of was done with the clean up. But as always I have to give it a few passes more, I know I've got some things that I need to sort out.

Here I want to show you that things happen from the thumbnails to clean up. The panel I'm writing about is at the bottom right, first as you can see on the thumbnail I wanted the "camera" to withdraw from the characters to give them room, but when I transferred the sketch to the larger paper, it kind of didn't work as well as I originally planned. Since I had an extreme close-up of Héloise at bottom left, I gave Quentin a close-up too, so he would not be jealous... I think with the close-up of Quentin I think the intensity increases and we (the reader) is more included in the scene.

Earlier this week I got a call from an old friend, and he told me that he and his colleague liked my thesis film from animation school. I was completely struck by this, fortunately I sat down, if I hadn't I would've fallen down... A very nice phone call to get indeed!

If you haven't seen the film, take a look at:

http://pglidstrom.blogspot.se/2011/08/one-year-anniversary.html

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Sketches in blue

Here are two half pages in blue pencil. I wrote about them earlier when I did the thumbnails.

I tried something new this time around, last time I did the sketches in blue quite fast and...sketchy... that resulted in a longer period of clean up. Now I've done more detailed blue sketches, but also keeping it light and...sketchy... I'm going to go over them once more to sort out the quirks. When that's done it's clean up time!

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Enlarging the thumbnails

The whole episode is now thumbnailed and I think the flow is working, but as always there might be some changes later on. Currently I'm in the middle of enlarging the thumbnails to regular size drawings.

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New sketchbooks!

Yesterday I had an abundance of creativity and the fruit of my labour are these sketchbooks! In 2011 I posted about these sketchbooks that I made:

http://pglidstrom.blogspot.se/2011/08/beginning-of-week-update.html

Since I almost ran out of sketchbooks this week and I had paper left to work with, I decided to do some more books. I used the same technique as the last time, but this time around I did some improvements!

Just to state the obvious they might be a little bit rough on the eyes but that means that I won't get that anxiety of making bad drawings in a beautiful sketchbook, like the Moleskins for example. I think I'm going to call these faux-moleskins...

With these additions to my collection of sketch books I think my sketch book need is covered for the near future. Although I know that I have a pile of paper that I'm going to do something with, but that is a story for another day...

Left: The only improvement on this one is the cardboard at the bottom.
Right: Here I used water color paper to wrap around the pages, with a rubber band to keep it all in place.

Left: Cardboard bottom and canvas cover with a rubber band.

Right: Card board bottom and regular drawing paper around and rubber band.

On this one I used cardboard all around and a rubber band.

Thumbnails

Chapter 3 is now being thumbnailed, here is a snapshot of one of the pages:

As I've written before, in this stage it's not that important to be "on model". On the top half of the page Quentin and Héloise is having a conversation, when I drew these panels I got something that I didn't plan! In panels three and four, a big question is asked, and the fact that they look away from each other increased the importance of the question. Well, that's how I think, I might change this later on...

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