After what seems like an eternity, I finally have line art ready to post. This is the cover for the first issue, which *should* be colored, lettered, and posted on February 7th. It was a breath of fresh air to sit down on a full size comic board and use my ol’ Hunt #102 quill on a piece instead of the all-Prismacolor setup I use for the short stories. As you can see, the art is considerably cleaner than my previous work. I briefly considered sticking with the Prismacolor brush pen to do even the main book after seeing how quickly I could work with it on the short story pages but once I laid down a few lines on this piece with a quill, that idea was nixed for obvious reasons.

The main comic will be colored using Photoshop instead of the marker-based coloring you see for the short story. It takes a little longer but it looks so much nicer that I don’t see any reason not to do it, especially since I’ll be using a pretty standard cell-shading technique to speed up the process. I usually color in a gradient style when I’m working on the computer but frankly, there just isn’t enough time to do it that way when I have one full size comic page, entirely done by one person, due every week. By this time next week, I should be posting line art for the first page or a color preview of the cover… time and motivation will tell.

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