#2. Drawing the Idea of it!!! I have very short memory and not really keeping myself enough active about that, so I need a little block notes to keep the idea inside for a future comic.
#3 Sketch it. Lately I am doing many pencils on the bus, and I can say that it's a great way to produce something, as I always try to save time in any possible way. If you think at a bus, is not driving that nicely, but it makes a lot of stops ;)
That, and I finished to see some TV series recorded on my portable video reader...
#4 Trace it and scan it. At the beginning I was simply drawing on the pencils, or even directly with the pen, and just fixing with photoshop. When I was in the studio there were eventually lighting table to use, and since then has become more painful, because I had to trace the draw on the windows, during light time... So I did some of them directly in Photoshop again. Last trick that I am using are tracing paper. they work very well, but the line is thicker... And for the tracing pen I used different kind as you can notice... 
#5 Photoshop! I move the characters to fit them with the text, cleaning up the draw, reuse what i can, scale some not proportioned character ... basically making it cuter. After that I use a filter to have a more liquid ink feeling. And here I have to fix a lot again because I loose some line here and there... After that, it's just about turning the black into brown and that's it.I know, so much work for a so simple look comic! Please, forgive me, I'm just unable to draw all directly in Photoshop, as Pascal Colpron does.
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i would recommend a different type treatment, the blocky slab serif does not match your drawings, and its kinda floating.
Hey Justin, thanks for write a good critic! (Finally, somebody that help me out to improve my comic)
Ok, so for the font it's a Courier new, bold. It has been chosen because I could do my comics by home and by work on different machines and frequent formattings, without worring of havig a special font installed. I know it's a classic, but it actually look to me more funny than a Arial or a Verdana. I'll avoid to death the times new roman!
Do you have a specific idea of which font you would see better?
oh, I really want to avoid baloons, but I'll try to make the text more compact somehow.
Just out of interest, how did you find out of my comics? I also gave a look to your blog, you have a really nice style. Is that part of your job?
heya!
i just graduated from a graphic design course in Winnipeg, but illustration has always been front and centre interest-wise. I am working at a design studio, but constantly doodling 24/7.
For the your comics type, i hear ya on the conflicting font issues, (annoying stuff) but i would recommend www.dafont.com, as a great resource for fonts, (easy access too), and it will have something that looks a little more hand drawn, should fit great with your comics-
really dig the pieces in your other blog as well, great style, ill be sure to keep an eye on your posts!
cheers.
Ha ha!
You forgot to mention how a lot of the drawings begin on a napkin in a restaurant :P :P :P
Miss you!!
Right! I forgot to mention that! Ank thanks Kerry to help me to have so much material for my comics :D I miss you too!
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