Tracing Paper
or, Killing Trees & Why I hate Flats I've been dreading the tones for this book. The tones are definitely my least favorite part The flats are definitely my least favorite part. Flats are hard to describe if you don't know what they are. Flats are a part of the process that aren't really talked about (they're that boring) . Here's a visual example with images stolen borrowed from Terry Dodson, one of the few people I've seen even mention that they have a flatter (-a person who does this) . The flatter pretty much traces the picture and fills in shapes with color (see 1), it doesn't even have to be close to the final colors, the shapes just have to be filled with something. The flatter's done. That's it. They send it back, so that the person can pick up from there and finish it (see 2). Now, I know that it seems like this wouldn't be hard or take long. But, the specific image above is a cover. Imagine that image sm