Mar 4, 2008

Scanned Panel Details

Some examples of artwork we scanned to see what it would look like. We plan on adding black masks and possibly a light grayscale for tonal value. If you are interested in the technical specs, we use blue Eno mechanical pencil lead on Blue Line Pro comic paper (11 x 17"). Then we ink over top using black Copic and Sakura Micron technical pens. We do the blue roughs together, but we split duties when inking for consistency's sake: Sagan inks characters and Mike inks backgrounds.

Everything will be shrunk by a good percentage, which means we might lose some of the finer detail but will end up gaining a lot of line stability. We printed these out at 8.5 x 11 and things looked mighty crisp.



Hey, it's that dagger-looking thing that keeps appearing everywhere. Could it be somehow related to the plot?
Architectural detail of the city of Tollan. I think we based it on a different historical model, but "Tollan" was easier to remember than "Teotihuacan".

NEXT: Story details, of what we can allow.

We can't stop here, this is bat country!