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Small Things

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I'm still working on this set of colored drawings, in-between working on the comic. I'm not sure what the term is, but I'm still trying to pick out and duplicate old printing traits. They're not really errors , but that's the word that comes to mind. I thought this one turned out pretty well. It would happen when the cheap black ink would rub off and you'd end up with a reverse ghost image on the opposite page.

Color Charts

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I printed this a while back and have been using it since. All of these colors print about twice or three times as dark as they look on screen. Also, the colors really change when they go through my color process I've hobbled together.  So, today I made and ordered prints of this one. As a better guide for how colors will look in the end. Places are really weird about printing things (even if you sign all their papers that say you own every single thing on and about the image*) , so I removed any reason they could give me for not printing it.  I also ordered a few other prints of a few other finished drawings, sort of as proofs for my non-comic drawing project, and... well, if they'll print those, they'll print anything I send them. *I seem to recall having the physical drawing with me one time when I tried to pick up prints and they questioned whether I owned the words that were used on it and that they weren't sure whether they could give them t

Drawing Table Tuesday

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About  Drawing Table Tuesday .

Drawing Table Tuesday

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At the moment, I'm cutting tracing paper and there's nothing on my desk, but I colored this over the weekend. If I drew it over again, the trees would be filled in as black and the grass would be less sketchy and a defined line with pen- I don't think those highlights worked too well. But that's kind of the point of coloring things like this; they come out how they come out. The way these are made, I only have so much control to a certain point, and after that, it's just however they end up. About Drawing Table Tuesday .