The actual lettering on the NEMO pages for Dove was much more fun. I did a previous test that was all by hand and I quickly realized that I wasn’t going to be able to fit all of the dialog and text into the art using my own hand-lettering (even after blowing up the work). So I decided to just hand-draw the balloons and use a digital typeface for the actual text. I’m adamant about drawing the balloons by hand (I’m actually using a cintiq).
Since Mark is writing I thought that it might be appropriate to mimic the scalloped ballooning of Xenozoic Tales:
Mark’s whole aesthetic is usually based in 1930-50s adventure comics/illustration, so that’s the lineage I’m referencing here (Al Williams' I, Rocket):
Art-wise Dove is taking a really interesting approach. He’s doing a sort of 20s/30s film look with the tones (post lineart airbrush).
Drawing balloons is my single favorite part of making comics, so this was pretty fun.
Dove and I had talked about using faint textures in the balloons that mimic the airbrushing he’s doing for the artwork. It seemed necessary to tie the balloons and art together. I much prefer this to making the balloons slightly transparent (a trend that is distracting I think). Dove scanned a few pages of airbrush tests and I used those to make the textures.
I don’t know that I love it, though... The textures printed way too dark when Dove printed a few samplers.
2 comments:
This is supper cool d-duncs!
I want to learn how to do ballons by you! I love how do you do them!
Do you do them by hand? I try drawing by hand a lot of them but I can't find that cool style! I always make too ugly ballons haha
Great job and the comic looks great! Here you have a follower!
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