Current mood:

self-suckered

So I was working on my comic at about 1'O clock in the morning, trying to figure out HOW IN THE HELL did I trick myself into doing MAD About U. in full color.


I mean, I started out just black and white brushpen drawings. They'd be quick and easy to keep a 3 day a week schedual. Then my first hiatus hit, not from business in real life or some emergency or even a vacation, but because I had a whole storyline drawn, ready to letter, and decided, in my editorial arrogance that "it just wasn't worth posting. It didn't bring anything to the story or characters (other than about a two friggin' month buffer)".

Then after coming back, I had been smitten with the two tone visuals of Vera Brosgol's comic, Return To Sender and decided to try the same thing, but with prismacolor markers for texture. I kept adding more and more tints.

The 3D story came and it'd have been just too much of a bitch to do the effects over marker colored backgrounds, so once the multi-dimentional beings came in, I started coloring on just the computer.

The final slip was coloring on the computer with all those purples and little other tinted colors like peach or brown skin, or red for Francis' shirt and I thought "Y'know, why don't I do this with other base color palletes for different lighting/effects/moods for each scene/setting?" BECAUSE IT'D TAKE TOO DAMN LONG is what I should have said. Sigh.

Oh well, at least they're looking nice.