That is a old episode, happen 1 year and half ago. Since me and Kerri like to mention it often, it deserve a Nana comic :)Questo e' un vecchio episodio risalente a un anno e mezzo fa, ma dato che ogni tanto ricorre nelle battute fra me e Kerri, merita una striscia.Lid in inglese vuol dire coperchio, ma io continuavo a chiamarli cover, dal verbo "coprire" :p
I re-posted this one with a new font that I found thanks the advices of Justin (see previous comments). It actually looks matching much better :)
#1 ... things happen, we laugh enough and here we have something worthing for a Nana comic.
#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.
That has happen last year, and all because if in English you say "see you later", it means simply "bye bye", while in Italian if you add a "later" to the greeting "see you", it really means that I'm going to meet the person in something like 30 minutes-2 hours...Questo e' successo l'anno scorso. Ricordate: Se in Inglese vi dicono "ci vediamo dopo" significa semplicemente "ciao", non che ti incontrerai con la persona dopo mezz'ora, max 2 ore...
I'm sorry I missed from those pages for a while, no time lately :p
Being in a country with a different language can give you comunication/understanding problems.
So it happen that you just memorize the more usual question they ask you in services (supermarket, pubs, resto etc) and when you don't get them you just guess what is the more probable question they made you. It works the most of the times ;)
That is a old episode, happen 1 year and half ago. Since me and Kerri like to mention it often, it deserve a Nana comic :)
