Fainting Spells

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Gate, page 9

Biev

on May 7, 2007

I can't believe it took me all night just to draw this.

*brain goes to sleep*

(edit) A few hours of sleep later, I can finally start to think coherently enough to talk about the picture. It looks pretty now, but it was a real pain in the butt! I worked on it for a full 12 hours and still wasn't happy with the results and ended up having to fix everything in Photoshop. Here's why it took so long:

- First I drew it in inverted colors (why do I insist on doing that?)

- I used some pre-mixed liquid watercolors for the background and it came out awful and almost ruined the sketch

- Fixed it with watercolor pencils and saved the sketch by "inking" it - except not really ;o) I didn't have any ink so I had to go over it with a regular pencil but I pressed real hard : P

- Then the scanner was being a doodiehead and made everything so blurry I wanted to scream

- Ended up having to cut the picture up in small pieces and scan separately

- It was impossible to piece back together in photoshop because the watercolors had caused the paper to warp so none of the pieces came out square

- Had to mask this heavily with the clone brush (-_-);

- Once I inverted the colors, I realized it looked like shit

- Had to remove the background color completely (it was spotted blue)

- Messed around with additional colors for hours until it became this kind of rainbow

And that was just for the middle panel. It *was* going to be a 3 frame page, but there was just no way I could spend that much time on every frame. In the end I decided to go with chibi scribblings. But I couldn't find a way to fit everything on the page without making it look to crowded, so some of it will be carried onto the next page, where the mystery of the brushing thingy *dum dum dummmmmm* will be elucidated!

Biev