| Comic process |
[Feb. 12th, 2007|11:01 am] |
I want to get in the habit of posting something to Ponyville at "Comic Time!" (::Muppets leap up and flail around::) each week. Since the last strip was posted only Thursday, I have no comic for you today, but that doesn't mean I have nothing!
I've wanted to post an illustrated entry detailing the steps I use in creating any given comic, and that is what you find below. I don't know if anyone will find this interesting, and I know I'm opening myself up to suggestions from artist-friends far more talented than I could hope to be, but I thought this might be fun.
I don't do anything extraordinary, and probably do everything ass-backwards since I am self-taught, but it all works for me. :) RIGHT?? DOESN'T IT?? (Don't humor that wave of self-doubt). As the strip has gone on, I seem to add more and more steps to the creation process. Recently, for example, I've added shading to each strip.
Step One: Sketching
I start by printing out a strip's diaglogue, which almost always gets revised along the way. Then I make a rough storyboard sketch, deciding how to partition the joke. I tend to crowd all of my sketches onto one or two pages. That's just how I roll.
(all examples in this entry are sized down significantly for posting.)
 
( More Process behind cut )
-----
Ponyville G3 Auctions:
Not to be a total shill, but I currently have about 60 G3 ponies listed on eBay, including almost every single Ponyville character in toy form, expect for Wysteria. (And Lemon Squash, since that would be impossible). Even Jack. Even Toola Roola. So maybe you can start your own collection, I don't know. Dude, you know you need your own Amberlocks to whore up. LINK |
|
|
![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
ponyville's journal
