Production Reflection

Brendan-Storr

Process• Firstly, I have drawn it on paper. Then

I brought some black sharpies and used them to draw on the pencil lines. I later on scanned this and e-mailed it to myself. I opened Photoshop and coloured it in, using the paint bucket tool and used the quick selection tool on some parts of it when I was colouring. Good so far, though it was a bloody nightmare getting a simple thing like a sharpie! Seriously, I had to walk out of college to buy the things at Tesco’s…escorted!? Both that, and I messed up in the scanning process and had a hard time opening this up in Photoshop. Christ, everything simple is hard to do these days…

Process• Soon after, I used the brush tool is draw

the eye vine lines since the crayon didn’t come out right when it was scanned. Both that and it was faded. I then decided to put text on to finish off. I started with the title, ‘Dysfunction’, with just simple text, coloured it green, and then made a ‘stroke’ effect to make it stand out against the black background. Then I added the ‘#1’ text, added a ‘stroke’ and then used ‘bevel and emboss’ to make it bolder. I then added minor text to tell people who made this. This has been a fantastic cover to work on. Made it very effective and digitally coloured. Still, the scanning process and the ‘e-mail to myself’ might still be a problem to go through, and might slow me down on finishing this in three weeks.

Process• This is one of the first three pages

I have done. I have drawn it on a piece of paper and then drawn the lines over with a sharpie. I scanned it in and began colouring it using Photoshop tools, like paint bucket and quick selection tool, plus used a pencil line tool or a brush tool for some bits of unnoticed lines I forgot to draw over. I’m pleased with the colours on Photoshop so far, but I’m going over ‘buyer’s remorse’. The sharpies I brought were to thick for small details like the boy’s freckles and a few over things. I almost ruined this for me. The other two pages are better than this one however, thanks to my Sister’s pens I borrowed from her.

Process

This is the finished version from slide 4. This is a slight improvement, but is a disappointing page to make, because of the pen lines. As I stated, next pages after this are superiorly better.Tip: get a thinner sharpie.

Process• This is a finished page I have just

done. I have discussed colouring in the previous slide. Just to recap, I used paint bucket tool and quick selection for a piece of the picture for colouring. I even used to paint bucket tool to make the pen lines more bolder. Now to discuss the speech bubbles. There is a custom shape tool, where you find a variety of shapes that are not squares or circles. I places a speech bubble over the drawing, coloured it white with a black bold line, and added text to it. This is my favourite page so far, for the colours, and the punch line of the comedy sketch here. The text for the speech bubbles are really tricky to do though. You have to work really hard to make them fit properly.

Process• Drawn it on paper, used a sharpie on

the pencil lines, scanned it onto the computer, used Photoshop for colouring, and then used the custom shape tool for speech bubbles. This is getting to be better than my last comics FMP, because the pages has a bit more story than the pages I done in FMP 1. Also, I learned a bit more skills to make them look good, I discovered a range of speech bubbles to select and at this rate, I might make two to three more pages than I ever did, just figure out of to squeeze in the evaluation in. I must remind myself to make some pages at home. The most difficult thing to do is still fitting the text into the bubbles, because you would have to mess around with the size of the texts and bubbles, plus make the lines of the bubbles bolder. It’s not an easy task to do.

ProcessThese are the last few pages in have done this week. Not much to tell since most of it is the same as how I explained them in the previous slides, which is scanning them, using a paint bucket to colour them and using shapes and text ti make the speech bubbles. However, I used the effects on text that are ‘sound effect’ text. These effects involve ‘Stroke’, ‘drop shadow’, and many others like ‘inner glow’ or ‘emboss’. I even used some of those effects on some of the drawing like the grim reapers eyes. I even used the quick selection tool for the dark shades for Mina in page five (again, the one with the grim reaper). I have made more pages than in my first FMP and I can say, I am very proud of my work.