bluehoundoom: Hi and thanks, I do put a lot of effort into making them diverse. As for coloring, reason I don't color that much is because I have a lot of trouble "getting" colors. I might make something good once in a while, but I usually fail to make good things in color. I'll try to see what I can do in the future regarding that though. Meanwhile, black and white I can have 100% success rate with.
As for the comic, are you referring to the webcomic where everybody is really cartoony and short? I kind of stopped working on it when I realized that I needed to stop and improve on my skills instead of re-enforcing what could be inferior methods of drawing.
Nah, I didn't do any of the text in hand, for the webcomic, I used Myriad Pro. If your referring to the recent 2 pages of two characters in an acting scene, yeah, the font was bad in the first versions, somebody later recommended some font, but I don't know if I posted that version up. The different text styles is interesting and would be imaginative. I'll try to give it a try. I'm sometimes wary of how some fonts have vague restrictions on them and how they can be used.
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So, heres my progress so far on that SJ entry. After spending another weekend studying storytelling and the elements that make it up, I've finally started inking. It was also after going through many re-writes of the manuscript and re-draws of the storyboard. This is how far I got after an hour of inking. Notice how I enlarged the thumbnail from the storyboard to fit the page and drew over it. I changed the second panel since I thought a side view from a distance was ineffective. I plan to change some panels as I go along.
http://i.imgur.com/EI590mV.jpg
Here is the storyboard I chose. I thought it was the best one for a 45 pager. I blurred the last set of pages because of major spoilers.
http://i.imgur.com/yI9E2vd.jpg
Since I didn't pick this one, I didn't blur anything. This is what the above is based off of. Except I erased about 20 pages and made the Gunslinger the main villain. In this version, the Dragon Lord is the villain and the Gunslinger a powerful rival. This made things very cluttered and the divided screentime led to a lessened impact from either antagonist. In this one, theres also a backstory about the female protagonist being a Princess from a fallen kingdom which has been removed in the Gunslinger version since it was only relevant if the Dragon Lord was the villain. Also, they end completely different, as in this one, its a "powerup and have a fighting chance" usual kind of ending, while the ending for the Gunslinger story is actually very interesting since theres no way for them to close the power gap and have to find another way.
http://i.imgur.com/qWfN96q.jpg
And now here's a story that diverges from the other two in that it started with an interesting early part and was more joke oriented, but I gave up on it since it was a storyline more suited to serialization. It starts off with the Ogre dude trying to fight the Knight.
http://i.imgur.com/y8Ye8He.jpg
Here's the first storyboard I had that reached 45 pages. It was a test to see how the flow of things would go and it turned out that by the time I got to the climax, I had reached the page limit for the contest.
http://i.imgur.com/XlX8fAd.jpg
Well, I'm glad that I'm in the inking phase now. I estimate that it will take around 135 hours to draw 45 pages. At the minimum. At the most, I expect it to be over 300 hours.
Which is actually not bad even at that extreme since a few years ago, when I only had traditional mediums to work with, just 20 pages alone would take a total of 300 hours.{About 8 hours a page just to get the quality I can get in 2 hours now.}
So at the least, with this increased speed with improved quality, I'm eager to see what I can do.
I gotta redraw that second panel, and the main character as well. V , v