Week 8A

   Today in class I met with Vance briefly at the beginning and then had lots of work time. The first thing that I did was bring in the scans I got into photoshop and “stitched” them together into the whole comic. Then I set all of the levels, and messed with the hues to get rid of my blue line.

Comic put together in PS:

Then I started to try and color it, but James recommended that I find my typefaces first because that might take longer and I need good typefaces that match my drawing style. I found two typefaces that I thought would work for the balloons and then were actually very similar. The first one (and top of the picture) was called Indie Pimp, while it was stylistically closer to my drawings I think it is harder to read. The second typeface (Bottom image) and then one I think I will i use is called Fish Fingers. It is a slightly more plain but I think easier to read. For the years I had Baduy (top) and Daddy in Space (bottom). I tried Baduy because the dotted line around the letters matched the marks I made for grass, but the letter shapes themselves weren’t very organic. Space Daddy on the other hand looked much more organic and the heavy black space of the letters matches the roofs of the houses in the comic. James did say that I should try it smaller and smaller was better for it I think.

 (Smaller sized date)

When I felt good about the typefaces I moved onto color. I put lots of colors down quickly just so I could see what they looked like without investing to much time. Right away I knew I didn't want to do the red or blue because they added emotions to the story that weren’t really there. So I played the most with neutral to yellow tones. I stayed more towards an Ochre because it has a warm but not sunshine feel because I felt sunshine wouldn’t be appropriate for the comic. In the end I decided that the grass color should be the darker color because the comic needed a bit more weight on the right side. The bottom picture is what I’m going with for the final I think.