Woah, shadowed out eyes, serious time. And the whole off size panel thing. Looking at my originals I realized I re-sized the panel to make up for a mistake I had made in the drawing. Let’s take a look at a scan of that panel.
So let’s talk a little about my process. At this point I would pencil out the pages, then ink and then do massive corrections in Photoshop. Of important note here is that Jam in the Band is the first time I ever did hand lettering on a comic. I used to just leave space for the bubbles and text. But now I was actually incorporating the bubbles and the text into the overall panel design.
Honestly though, I hate my lettering, that’s why I go over it with a font. But it helps me to at least KNOW how much of the panel the text is going to take up.
Also, I fill in all the blacks in Photoshop. This lets me tinker with them more. As a video editor, I need the ability to play with and manipulate the image
