Why Do You Love Me

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PROLOGUE- Page 1

noroone

on Feb. 5, 2008

I'm exhausted!!! D= Wow, these last three days felt like weeks!

Well, this is it, the first actual manga page of WDYLM. This is the very first comic page I have ever drawn in my entire life, so I suppose that's why it was so hard to make, but surprisingly, after I was done with this one, the second page seemed so much easier, even though it has a little more complicated drawing. I suppose that once you get over the whole "how the hell am I gonna do this" complex and get accustomed to arranging panels and creating layout with rulers and stuff, it just doesn't seem that hard anymore.

This page was redone five times :P I spent a whole 5 days with this last version, 3 of them sketching and inking, and the other two coloring. The building itself took me a whole day. Heheh, just so you know and just in case this building seems familiar to you, I took a picture of Ringling College of Arts and Design as a reference for it ("copied it exactly as it is" is more like it ^^') I'd never ever drawn buildings or rooms or backgrounds whatsoever, this was so very tedious!

It took me a lot of time to color this, I don't know if I should keep coloring all of the pages, but I don't know how to tone with Photoshop or any other editing program. Hints anyone? It would make my life so much easier.

Well, I'll stop ranting now :3 I'm working with the second page already. Expect it in a couple of days (or three, or four…)

x3