Kids And Robots Three:R.A.S

So here is the third in the Kids and Robots series-and this girl is the owner of the R.A.S robot (Rain and Storm), hence the galoshes and umbrella...and teddy bear with rainbow...and barometer...and weird pink liquid...(don't ask me, I just felt it would be a little lively pinch of color).

I'm getting these down a little quicker. I have an issue with patience. I see the whole thing as I want it to be done, but it frustrates me that it takes time to get them done. I start coloring, and I wish I had a little magic wand to make the computer do what I want. The cool thing about computers though, is they save you the time of boring tedious things you would have had to do before, like tracing things. Thank goodness for the ability to have a program trace things for you. And color them in. Or remove stray lines, and what not.

Ohhhh....I can't wait for this week to be over with. I'm looking for the weekend...I'm looking for the weekend. I hope I get Monday off, I requested it because I'm just so exhausted. (Of course, that would give me ample time to color more stuff...and watch bad tv!)

And (in the event my readers of my commic make their way to this blog, or even glance at it-to hear me ramble like a silly one), thanks for the kind comments! Honestly! They make me happy.

The Process of a VM page, part two of three

Okay, here's part two. This goes over the final coloring, and making of the panels and what not.
Oh-I forgot, as tools I highly, highly recommend a tablet. I honestly don't know how people do it with a mouse, some people are ultra experts at it-but I can't even tell you how difficult it is to color with a mouse. I think as artists, we're more comfortable with a pen/pencil/brush anyways-just the weird thing is using your hand at one place while watching what is produced on a screen. As you go along it gets easier. You can also always get the screen tablet-so you can draw directly on the screen.

Okay, part three-lettering will be up tomorrow.

Another cover page

I'm still not hip to the blog thing. I know it's something you're supposed to update daily-or at least a couple times a week, but what can I say? Anyways, here's the latest update to the Voyage Moyen webcomic-it's a splash page-a cover page! I like doing splash pages. I am in the midst of recoloring page 13 that I lost when my hardrive crashed, and it's taking me forever because, well, I keep thinking "man, I already did this page! This sucks!". So I keep focusing on other pages, other art pieces, and I just get so bored with that stupid page. I mean-what if there's a huge systemic crash-and all the pages go down? Or what if I want to mirror the comic on another site? (I'm actually working on that one there).

Well-I get a couple questions every so often about how I color. I'm definitely not the most organized or technically proficient color person out there-and in fact-I took on the comic to make myself better at digital coloring. Coloring was actually my least favorite thing to do-and I've actually grown to love it. (Especially since I don't have to bust out paints or markers anymore). As each page goes along, I change processes, I change techniques-the number of layers vary, the effects vary (I'm relying on those far less-you can spot a photoshop effect from a mile away), and the way I work varies. I color as the page feels. For me-Voyage Moyen is supposed to be strange-disjointed, dreamlike. For example- the whole first part was supposed to be at night. But-I didn't want it to be 30 some pages of purple or gray tinged pages. I wanted each page-each panel to feel like a piece. So that's how I color. It isn't scientific, it isn't even "comic book" straight out coloring (like Image or something-where everything glows blue and purple), but screw that. I don't want it to look like everything else out there. I wanted it to look a little different from the norm. Hopefully I've succeeded-and it doesn't throw people off. I think if I do another comic-it might be a little more straight forward-or maybe even in just plain old black and white. I don't know. But, I do VM this way, because VM feels this way.

Wakata? Sweet.