Shot from the book, and restored with lettering corrections. Isn’t Photoshop awesome?
The stippling and star effect is a combination of hand-work and Japanese tone sheets.
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Archive for December, 2009
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The snow…it fascinates. Somewhere in Alaska, people are laughing at me.
The back deck on the farmhouse.
Front porch. A very confused cardinal was dazzled by the lights and flew back and forth under the roof of the porch. We turned the lights off so the poor critter could get some sleep. They nest in that big bush you see there. It is very pretty to see these bright red birds in the snow. I keep trying to catch one on camera.
Decorating in progress.
I’ve got a brutal headache today and may just go back to bed. Spent all weekend baking and don’t want to be surly when the family starts showing up…assuming they can get down the drive. 24 inches of snow to clear over a 1/4 mile stretch. Hoo boy.
This page needed about 2 hours of restoration. Had I more Photoshop chops, probably would have been easier, but there you go.
This was shot from the book. Alas, for some reason, I used the wrong tone sheet for about a half dozen figures in this issue, and on random shots in earlier books. When printed, the tones went to mud, and the figures turned out almost flat black. Without the original art, I had to guess at the drawing beneath the tone sheet and carefully redo the details.
I’ve never done any Photoshop tones before, and have a lot to learn. Forgive my Novice Nelly performance.
I decided to leave Bast in the final panel as per the original scan, but you can see she’ll need some restoration in that shot, too.
For all future ADS pages, I will continue to use hand-applied Japanese tone sheets, but will save two versions of each page: one with tones and one without. This will be the last project on which I use hand applied sheets.
Anyway, nice to know I can do this sort of thing, now. There are some shots of Chris and Brent that could use a touch-up, too.
This whole webcomic thing is turning out to be a great opportunity to look at each page as an individual work. I’ve learned many new skills here.
I will redo what I can redo, but I’ve had to make some hard choices about what to leave as is. Had I my druthers, I’d be re-inking about 120 pages.
But I cannot! I must move on! New pages! Forward! Forward!
OK, enough of that. GO VOTE FOR ME!!! And thanks for your support. Seriously, I am so pleased with the incoming traffic to the site. Thanks for the rec’s, thanks for bringing in new readers. I really appreciate it!
Record breaking cold and snow here on the little mountain.
The stream, buried under 30 inches of fluffy white stuff.
My gardens and greenhouse. I meant to get out yesterday to pick parsley and celery. Too late now.
The barn and hothouse are past the little stream here. This exhausting walk through hip-deep snow took 20 minutes.
Wholesome decor.
The latest in winter couture.
More pics later.
