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At long last, my Digital Coloring And Lettering final…it still seems a little pretentious, but I wanted to try out a different genre than usual, and overall I’m pretty happy with how this came out!

Also, Emperor Norton was a real (and fascinating) fellow, check him out!

So I wrote the script for my Digital Coloring And Lettering final about a month and a half ago.  And it was all like, “Okay, this might be a little pretentious, but whatever, I’m kind of brilliant!”

Then I see it again today when I have to actually do the lettering, and…

SO MANY WORDS

AND NONE OF THEM MAKE SENSE

(I spent the entire class period progressively making the fonts smaller and smaller…)

Page 6 of 8 of “Little Things”.  The inking is sloppy and lots of little things in here look horrible, but it’s done…

My apologies once again for leaving on a cliffhanger, but there almost certainly won’t be a new page next week, as in addition to doing my finals I’m going to be packing up all my worldly possessions into two suitcases and a collection of cardboard boxes in preparation for my flight home.  Thus, there probably won’t be any time even to work on the pencils, and all my inking materials will be packed up pretty soon…I’ll try to get the last two pages done fairly quickly once I’m home, though, and post each as soon as it’s finished, regardless of the obsolete Friday posting system.

I may not have been completely successful with my plans for completing this story this quarter, but still, six out of eight pages (seven out of nine if you count the cover), that’s 75% (or 77.78%) of what I set out to do, so not too shabby…especially when compared with my old track record (“Madness Love”, 24 pages, March 2009-January 2011… “VALENTINE”, 14 pages, November 2010-April 2011…)

Click here for links to all the pages.

Click here for more info about this series (“Heroina: Robot Detective”).

Here, have some WIPs of my final projects.  The left is for Environments, Props And Structures (a two-page comic, to be inked and graytoned), and the right is for Digital Coloring And Lettering (a three-page comic, already inked and in the process of being colored and lettered, with two more previews here and here).

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dang D”:

The pencils are too light and my room is too dark for me to be able to take any kind of convincing photo evidence at this time, but somehow, surprising myself more than anyone, I actually managed to finish the last 75% of the pencils this afternoon and will be able to start inking tomorrow morning (though I’ll have to take the afternoon and maybe evening to work on my real finals), and since the story left off on such a cliffhanger, if I haven’t finished the inks by Sunday evening I’ll post up the pencils so you few Faithful Readers can at least get the plot points.

Seriously, that was one motivating emoticon, Aisha!

For the practically nonexistent number of people who care, the next page of “Little Things” may not be out until Saturday or Sunday, and maybe not even until the beginning of June, due to finals.

Page 5 of 8 of “Little Things”.  Again, I have to say I’m unsure whether the next page will be finished for next week, as we’ve reached Critical Finals Mode over here and I’ve still got some pretty hefty projects to finish up before the end of the month.  But this story will definitely be wrapped up well before the end of June, regardless.

On another note, while working on this page, I had one of those weird moments where I got upset by a character’s behavior before realizing that it was totally in-character for them…”Oh my gosh, Lt. Collohaven has been so mean to Butch this whole story!”, I realized, before remembering that her entire personality is “does whatever she thinks is best and doesn’t care about anyone’s feelings”.  XD

Click here for links to all the pages.

Click here for more info about this series (“Heroina: Robot Detective”).

The next page of “Little Things” might not be up until tomorrow, sorry!  (I had it pose for a photo though to prove that it’s well under way.)  Working on any one project for more than a couple hours at a time drives me a little nuts which causes the quality to suffer, so I’ll be alternating between working on this and working on my actual homework today.  So sorry for the continual delays, but it’s finals now (only two full weeks of school left…yikes!), and to be honest I was probably at least a little crazy when I decided to take on this pretty hefty side project this quarter.  But I promise the page is on its way, and hopefully I won’t have to skip any more weeks before the end of the story!

Since I don’t have a “Little Things” page to post this week, I thought I’d offer up a work-in-progress shot of my Digital Coloring final instead (first previewed here).  Looking all right so far…

To the very few people who care, I think I’m going to make an executive decision to extend my deadline for the next page of “Little Things” to Saturday instead of Friday, with a rain date of Friday the following week, in light of the high number of things I need to work on at the beginning of this week.  Such as attempting to finish inking a three-page story with absurdly complex environments, working on filling 25 pages of a sketchbook with object and environment studies in proper perspective, and studying for a test on Renaissance and Baroque art.

We cool?  Well, no, because it’s in the 80s where I am, but you catch my drift.

UPDATE: Looks like the page’ll be deferred to next week, so I can spend this week doing schoolwork and hauling A’s.  (Sorry to say, that last bit of wordplay was actually meticulously planned out beforehand…)