Usually the way that the comics are put together is by isolating several images and digitally coloring them, then placing the individual pieces together. It saves time and memory, and leaves less room for mistakes to happen. 
As for Squirrelman, the comic was never resolved, and I dont think it will be. However, this image below was supposed to be the beaver's hand that defeated the giant cloud-thing bad guy. The beaver, who was chewing on wood, was supposed to lift a hand and blast the bad guy, al la anime style or...yes, Dragon Ball Z. (DBZ was the Naruto of it's day. It just got old when it took, what, 10 episodes for Goku to level up to Super-Saiyan? I dropped the series by that point, even though I had faithfully recorded it through the first season. Sigh.)
Inside of the hand should be a swirly energy beam.
For the comic, the images are usually drawn several times, and then put into the computer. This image was created that way.
The final drawing before the digital coloring.
and after. the background was added later.
This comic was actually a lot of fun because I was able to try some new techniques for it.
The above picture was actually a lot of fun because it was so random that it was cool. (a la anime "Special-insert-weird-japanese-name-or-butchered-english-term" attacks.) remember those super hero anime movies that took them SO LONG to power up that the super villain could have gone to starbucks, ordered a latte, chatted with a few friends, and still make it back in time for the super hero to actually attack? Yeah buddy. Im not bashing anime, but if you think about it...
BTW, I was talking to a comic artist guy today at the newspaper, and we talked about how so much of Anime is based off of Asian Art and the Asian culture, which is probably the reason why it doesn't make a lot of sense sometimes. (Except for Bobobo. That was just stupid.) A la, one of the anime shows had Kabuki music playing in the background, and unless you know about Kabuki music or what it means, you won't get the reason for playing the music in the background. I didnt until I learned about Kabuki.
Lighting was also something this semester saw more of as the digital coloring became better. I was able to explore more dramatic situations, such as Nick finding an odd floating white object in the middle of a cavern in an old Olmec ruin that changed time and space? Or at least he thought it did.
Every time a clue appears, it's researched a lot before a final drawing shows up. The writing on the 'jade' pendant above is in Mayan, which complicates the mystery because the beginning of the Fuzzes dates back to about 1000 years before the Mayan civilization.
Alright, back to schoolwork. Till next time.
As for Squirrelman, the comic was never resolved, and I dont think it will be. However, this image below was supposed to be the beaver's hand that defeated the giant cloud-thing bad guy. The beaver, who was chewing on wood, was supposed to lift a hand and blast the bad guy, al la anime style or...yes, Dragon Ball Z. (DBZ was the Naruto of it's day. It just got old when it took, what, 10 episodes for Goku to level up to Super-Saiyan? I dropped the series by that point, even though I had faithfully recorded it through the first season. Sigh.)
Inside of the hand should be a swirly energy beam.For the comic, the images are usually drawn several times, and then put into the computer. This image was created that way.
The final drawing before the digital coloring.
and after. the background was added later.This comic was actually a lot of fun because I was able to try some new techniques for it.
The above picture was actually a lot of fun because it was so random that it was cool. (a la anime "Special-insert-weird-japanese-name-or-butchered-english-term" attacks.) remember those super hero anime movies that took them SO LONG to power up that the super villain could have gone to starbucks, ordered a latte, chatted with a few friends, and still make it back in time for the super hero to actually attack? Yeah buddy. Im not bashing anime, but if you think about it...
BTW, I was talking to a comic artist guy today at the newspaper, and we talked about how so much of Anime is based off of Asian Art and the Asian culture, which is probably the reason why it doesn't make a lot of sense sometimes. (Except for Bobobo. That was just stupid.) A la, one of the anime shows had Kabuki music playing in the background, and unless you know about Kabuki music or what it means, you won't get the reason for playing the music in the background. I didnt until I learned about Kabuki.
Lighting was also something this semester saw more of as the digital coloring became better. I was able to explore more dramatic situations, such as Nick finding an odd floating white object in the middle of a cavern in an old Olmec ruin that changed time and space? Or at least he thought it did.
Every time a clue appears, it's researched a lot before a final drawing shows up. The writing on the 'jade' pendant above is in Mayan, which complicates the mystery because the beginning of the Fuzzes dates back to about 1000 years before the Mayan civilization.
Alright, back to schoolwork. Till next time.
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