A Better Plan
Hats off to Charlie/GroovyKinda for anticipating this turn of the story.
I won’t lie, I’m glad we’ve reached this page a last, because it means the long conversations of the past few pages are over. Shakespeare said “brevity is the soul of wit”. What he should have said is “brevity is the soul of not-having-your-wrist-hurt-from-hand-lettering-all-those-speech-bubbles”. I guess he didn’t have cartoonists in mind.
I finished finishing my new guitar! I did a proper setup on Friday, and then proceeded to spend my weekend playing it instead of packing for my move and drawing comics as I had anticipated. No regrets, though. This thing turned out to be a joy to play. I like it even better than I’d hoped I would, which is a damn fine feeling.
Anyway, here she is:
Looks nice. Maybe you should go on and give that concert for Lucille with it. 😉
Of course being the creator of the comic, you are doing just that in a kind of way.
Thanks. And because of your comment I just now noticed that I named Lucille after BB King’s guitar.
Aw shucks. It was more of a “this is what I hope you do” than figuring it out.
And conversation pages can be a wrist-breaker. You’ve got really nice hand lettering, if that helps. And your pages don’t feel like they’re too wordy.
So, a concert, huh? If only they knew some musicians…
That guitar is absolutely beautiful!
To be honest I do cheat a bit for my hand lettering. I type it out in a comic font, then I set that to about 2 percent transparency and hand letter over it. Keeps the spacing consistent and gives me a guide for the harder letters. I don’t know why, but man, the letter “S” is nearly impossible to get to look good.
Nothing bad with making your life a bit easier if the result looks good! And just look at an S! It’s nothing but curves! And just about everyone will agree on curves and circles being one of the hardest things to draw and make them look good.
You’re too kind! The hardest part about circles is getting the ends to meet up, I’d say.