What's this? Two in a row? Preposterous!

Hey look, new Woodsman stuff! I've been experimenting with different materials/techniques. Some are working, some... not so much. I somehow got a bad sheet of Strathmore 500 series bristol (supposedly the best stuff they make). The ink was bleeding out like crazy all over the place. It might have been all the tears and sweat soaking onto the board, but that's another matter altogether.

#11.

I had some issues with this one. I screwed up the first panel, and tried to cut it out and replace it using a technique Matt Bernier goes over on his blog. Well, suffice it to say, I should have given it a practice run before diving onto my bristol wielding a razorblade. I did, in the end, manage to replace the panel with a shiny new chunk of bristol, but I had to digitally remove a few wobbly cut lines that strayed into the panel borders.

Anyway, next week: Talking heads! Exposition! Nudity?

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I decided to change my formatting a bit, I'm putting a white border around everything. Should make the lettering easier, as I can intersect the bubbles with the border this way.

Panel 3. My lettering is balls, hopefully it won't take me too long to get the hang of it.

Here's panel 2. I'm a bit frustrated with my scanner, it blows out to white about 5% of my ink washes. I'll have to go a bit darker from now on, bump up the contrast on the page. I'm already catching a few bad habits with my technique, so this will be a good chance to squash those before my next freelance assignment pops up.

So since freelancing has slowed to a trickle lately, I've decided to keep myself occupied by doing a comic-strip. I'm going to do one a day for as long as I don't have any work coming in. I figure this will give me a good reason to work on my writing, landscapes and environments in general, and my inking. Oh yeah, I'm going to keep these 100% traditional, so I'm going to have to suppress my ever present urge to redo everything in photoshop. I have very little idea where this is going, and I haven't written any short-story type stuff since college, so bear with me here. It's gonna get messy.