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Wow, it took quite a while for this one to see fruition, actually it has been a month since I first thought of making this Comic. For the record I know that in terms of “being funny”, this one is hit or miss. It’s gross and weird, but I found it funny. The twisted dialogue was based on words that came out of someone’s mouth way back on Jan. 4th, close to Valkyr One’s birthday. No, not me, although it was my bright idea to draw it out. What’s in the comic is not based on an actual conversation, we don’t talk to each other like that, and no one I know has actually asked for such a thing…at least I hope not.

Okay, there are two things of note in the production of this comic. The first note involves drawing the cartoon version of Thirdspud, who stands to the left of the hooded Valkyr One in the Comic. Getting Thirdspud drawn right took me several tries, and the frustrating thing at the time was that the attempts were not getting better. Each attempt sucked as bad as the one that came before it, so I took a break and wandered the house aimlessly. After a drink of water I sat back down and batted out a sketch of Thirdspud, and it came out right.

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Of course I was unable to duplicate it freehand, so I constructed a light box with a glass table, an old hair tie and a flashlight. I traced the sketch three times and just changed the expression.
I suppose I could have used Photoshop to do all that, but I am still learning how to use it so it would have actually taken me longer to do.

The second note involves how I used photoshop to eliminate my pencil lines from the finished comic. Back in the day I would use regular pencil to sketch in the drawings, then I would ink the pencils and erase the pencil lines. This time I followed a tutorial on comic creation written by Kazu who draws Copper, one of my favorite comics. Check out the tutorial here. Basically I drew my pencils in blue, then inked over them and instead of erasing by hand I scanned the comic in to photoshop pencils and all. Photoshop did my erasing for me. Cool.

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I just remembered that there is another note. I tried writing in the dialogue on the computer, but none of the fonts looked right, so I had to write it out in pen and scan my writing in and add it with photoshop. That spurns me to try and turn my handwriting into a font that I can type out on my computer. That’d be a good project, anybody have any hints on how to go about doing it?

I was given this project to do for school. The project was to draw a self portrait. My only tools were a mirror, a wacom tablet, and photoshop. About 4 weeks, two days, and a ear infection later I finished my project. I went through about three stages in doing it. (three stages shown below)

I had no idea how to start and how to morph it into something worth looking at. With a little bit of help from my cousins who provided me with some good photoshop books I worked at it.
So I thought I finally finished but I realized my nose was too long. So i sliced it in half and fixed it up. I feel that there is always something that can be fixed or tweaked, but I decided to just leave it as it is. This is my end product…enjoy!