Thumbnail Thursday, July 10, 2008

Originally, I was thinking of laying out "Good As Lily" as well, but Jesse wanted to do that himself. I did scribble out the thumbnail for the first page though which you can see above. I thought it'd be fun to compare how Jesse and I layout a scene. If you look at my thumbnail and Jesse's finished art on the first page of "Good As Lily," you'll see that we have very different approaches to storytelling.Also, you'll notice there's a little picture of Grace as well as some other data like "user" and "date" above the narration in my thumbnail. That's because originally I was going to have her narration bits be her LiveJournal posts complete with accompanying avatars. I abandoned that idea early on though.Welp, this wraps up the behind the scenes look at "Good As Lily." I hope you enjoyed it. (And I hope you'll consider picking up the book! ;)My thanks to everyone that picked up the book and gave such nice feedback and reviews! I really appreciate the support!
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Wednesday, July 9, 2008

WANT

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Clothes Part 2

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"Good As Lily" Misprint
Hey all, there's a major misprint in some copies of "Good As Lily." In these jacked-up copies, pages 97-128 are missing, replaced with pages 65-96. (So pages 65-96 are printed twice with pages 97-128 -- a substantial chunk -- not even in the book.) So if you're in the store about to buy a copy you might want to make sure page 96 continues onto 97 and onward. If you've already purchased one of these deformed copies please exchange it for a good copy from the store you bought it from. If they won't or can't replace it, contact DC Comics and complain.I have no idea how many of these messed-up copies are floating around, but needless to say, it really sucks. Sigh...
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Monday, July 7, 2008

Clothes Part 1
I wanted the important characters in "Good As Lily" to change their clothes with every scene to make them seem more realistic. I dictated all these "costume changes" as well, as you can see from the sketch above. I didn't bother with the minor characters though; because they didn't have much "screen time", I thought it might be confusing if I changed their clothes around. For the sake of clarity, I kept the clothes the same for the alternate Graces throughout too. Even though I wasn't drawing this particular project, I couldn't let go of the one part of the comics creating process that's genuinely enjoyable. It's fun playing paper dolls with characters. It's fun and challenging trying to stay consistent to a particular person's fashion sense since everyone's is different. I'm such a girl...
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Thursday, July 3, 2008

Stephanie and Mom
I actually perused a few online stores for women's clothing to put together their outfits. I'm so glad I live alone. But hey, I didn't want them to be out of fashion knowing that was a big part of their character.Oh, and I should mention that Stephanie's two pals in her posse were a couple of the very few speaking characters that I let go of my control-freakness and let Jesse design himself.
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Follicle Fallout
I had a dream last night that I had gone bald. I wasn't all that upset or anything. I remember feeling relieved that I didn't have to worry about haircuts anymore. I could just crop the sides with a clipper myself every once in a while and save myself loads of money. I actually woke up thinking it had been real. I don't know why but it tickles me pink to imagine myself with male pattern baldness. I wonder what I'd look like. Maybe I should find out... If I did end up bald all of a sudden, I would definitely have to grow a fumanchu 'stache. It's the only respectable thing for an Asian man with premature male pattern baldness to do.Um, now that I think about it, I have no idea why I thought this little rambling was worth a post. My apologies.
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