Fainting Spells : Vows, page 2. Introducing Aude's bridesmaids!
06/25/06 @ 6:29 am
(Bonne St-Jean-Baptiste à mes lecteurs québécois!)

I wasn't satisfied with the strip, so I chose to work on it some more. As you can see, it took me a really long time to color this. I first went over the original sketch with colored pencils, but those never come out well once scanned. I ended up redrawing everything in Illustrator, so what you see is a mix of pencil and vector. Until I get a graphic tablet, I'm afraid it's always going to take me an extra day to color my sketches, so please be patient. I work on this thing everyday, whether I post my progress or not.

If you like this style, I also used it to color a picture of Eve that you can find on my deviantArt site. The lineart was from Applegeeks.

Now, let's talk about backgrounds. I've read that not drawing a background in every cell was considered "cheap", just like avoiding to draw complicated things like hands, feet or ears. As you can see, I omitted the background completely in the black & white version of this sketch. This wasn't pure laziness, I swear! Originally, the characters were standing in front of a bed cluttered with clothes and purses - because that really is what brides and bridesmaids change in front of - but it was visually distracting, so I took it out.

A lot of times, I tend to leave out elements that don't necessarily add to the story. The only reason I drew a (somewhat) detailed kitchen in chapter 1 was to point out the forgotten picnic basket. There is also the fact that I'm not interested in drawing any type of architecture. I like to draw organic stuff, like nature and people. Curves and messy lines are lively, in my opinion. I'll never be lazy when a scene calls for a nice landscape, but I wouldn't like to draw apartment buildings and microwaves ovens. To me they are just dead things, and it depresses me to look at them. As the story progresses, it will get more imaginative, and I will be able to go all out.

06/22/06 @ 3:36 am

I was hoping I would have time to color today's strip, but I have a lot to do in the morning so I'll have to call this an early day. I would really like to paint this when I get a chance. You know, with... paint. Alright that's it, I'm going to bed. I'm having a hard time forming sentences.

Biev
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