Round One: Day Fourteen
it doesn’t always end in tears.
thanks for everyone’s encouraging comments about handlettering and colour. i think i really need to work on my lettering; i’m not particularly happy with its clumsiness — i wonder if i can strike a compromise and typeset the normal text, but hand-draw the special text, like “jellyfish” — but i feel pretty good about the way the colouring is progressing. four colours in this one… i feel bold!
i really, really love “american elf“. how does james kochalka capture so much in four panels? how does he know exactly the right words to put in a speech bubble? his drawings are so full of character, and his lettering is so fluid. sigh.
this one is a bit of a homage to “american elf”, i think. it’s aspirational anyway. an attempt to record the detail and quiet of a moment.
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November 13, 2007 at 10:54 pm
Wow — this is my favourite one yet — just beautiful.
November 15, 2007 at 12:05 pm
I’ve been slow to say how much I love this. Go the hand lettering go! I think it looks tops. In fact, I would go with the hand lettering *all the time* if I were you and had your lovely penmanship.
Particularly cool, aside from the fact that it has jellyfish, are the sandals and little kiddy toes poking out the end. I have this thing with little feet where I *have* to count the toes cause it always looks like there are *many* more than five! This comic captures that totally. Colour is gorgeous - very Top Shelf somehow. Oh, and also the frayed bits on the bottom of your jeans. I heart them.
November 15, 2007 at 4:15 pm
I think this is gorgeous. I love the colour and the lettering (hey, I’m not a comic person so I don’t understand what could be wrong with it - it looks PERFECT to me!) and there’s something so intimate and warm about it, it made my morning.
November 28, 2007 at 12:23 pm
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