I originally wrote Nancy’s exclamation in Hangul since Korean uses a non-romanized alphabet, but I think this is probably more correct for comic format? I’ve asked a couple of copy editors I know, so feel free to weigh in if you’d like.
Oh, and here’s a little bit on Aigo:
I’m super happy with the shadows on this page! I’m no lighting expert but I work to learn something new with every page, so it’ll get there. I changed up my shading technique as well to save time. I was clinging to my old school “pick a shade for every base color and have 5 total shades and spend forever meticulously shading everything” because I love how vibrant it looks, but this is good too. And I did wind up editing some of the shading, like on the blond/e hair (both Kev and Amanda) and on the darker skin tones (Devin and Maddy, I can’t recall if I had to adjust Nancy’s highlights as well. Nancy is Asian and she’s got that rich coloring too).
I’ve also been playing with the “puppet warp” option in Photoshop CC. I was using CS2 for the last, oh…. FOREVER. This puppet warp thing is AMAZING. You can see an example of it on Nancy’s skirt (with the multi-colored chevrons). It makes it so much easier to warp patterns around clothing wrinkles and I’m just in love. I use it sometimes on the tattoos, like with Kevin’s forearm in the bottom panel since it’s twisted. Actually, his arm is probably turned too far out at the elbow, but whatever. Now we get to see more of that awesome tattoo. …and maybe he’s, like, double jointed?
Devin… does not entirely understand how being gay works.
Oh my gosh, they’re all wearing the same outfits and it’s SO CUTE. #twinsies!
You may have noticed by now that Kate is super rational and not remotely prone to mood swings, outbursts, or melodramatics.
This page took foreeeeeevvvvvveerrrrrr.
I’m especially proud of panel 2 on this page. Did you notice that everyone has a different nose?! It’s true! I noticed reading Friends With Boys by Faith Erin Hicks that all of her characters had adorable, distinct, and distinctly adorable noses. I tried hard during final character designs to take something from that and branch out a bit. Hope you like it!
The establishing shot of the school is pretty much the longest I’ve ever spent on a single “panel”. Definitely sick of it already!
So close!
The best part about this page was when my WordPress media library broke while I was trying to upload the update. Apparently WP 3.8.1 and the AJAX Rebuild Thumbnails plugin don’t get along so hot and will throw a super helpful error: An error occurred in the upload. I rebuilt the meta data first, then tried to rebuild thumbnails using AJAX since I already had that installed. No dice! More searching revealed that AJAX has a conflict with WP 3.8.1 so I deactivated that and suddenly the media library and featured images were working again. Woot! Super important since otherwise y’all ain’t gettin’ comics. Here’s a WP forums thread on it if anyone else has the same issue with their wordpress site.
