Cat Legend

Ta da! I've made two comic pages for the wonderful Moss of the Cat legend web comic. Above are three panels from the final copy of the pages. Check out her site to see the whole thing.

I've never made something from someone else's script and with someone else's characters before, so it was a very interesting experience. I also never colored pages on the computer before, so I used water colors instead. Though this was slightly dangerous, because a careless stroke could ruin the page, it was really fun. I tried to incorporate some of Moss' drawing style into mine, so this looks a bit different from my normal stuff. Still, I think it turned out really well! (^_^)

For those interested in the process of making comic pages, the following is basically what transpired.

First, after I received the script, I roughed the layout of the panels and what would happen inside them. This took many pieces of paper and curses, but I got it eventually.

After that was the penciling, which was time consuming because I wanted to get all the people perfect. When I do pencils, I tend to focus on the people and leave the backgrounds to the inking process. I do scribble in trees and horizon lines, though.

Then, I inked. I use paintbrushes in various sizes to do this instead of felt tips or inking pens. I like the organic lines and the variety of widths that I can achieve with a paintbrush. Of course, this tends to lead to several mishaps, because that's just how it goes. And that is why I have the marvelous and life-saving white ink.

Once the black lines were down, I erased the pencil and began to color. Now I said watercolors, but really I used watered down acrylic paints. I find that I can get a better color out of them. Because of the amount of paint I brushed on, I had to regularly press the pages in-between some really heavy books, to get out all the wrinkles.

So once that was all done, I scanned the pages and tweaked them a bit in photoshop. I also added the text. And that was it! (>_>) I didn't really mean to write that much, but oh well.