Here's an Alfie strip for Christmas at the pencil stage. I usually letter it first in the computer to get the accurate size for the final art. Also so that all my word balloons will fit in the strip and comic book naturally and not seem like they were jammed in with a crowbar.
After the pencil work is done and is something I'm happy with, then I ink it, scan it and then color the strip and then drop the lettering right on top. Here is one that I inked roughy so it's not in pencil. I try to get the idea down as completely as I can.
Here's the front of Alfie's first Christmas card I made this week! It came out really cute! I did the background which was all painted in Photoshop and added digital snow. The beauty of working in the computer is that if you aren't happy with something you can always fix it!
Here's another Alfie Christmas strip based on an actual incident when Alfie was young. This is when he was around 2 years old. He's now 4 and 3/4 years old. The cookies were too low and Yorkies are like mountain goats so he was able to get the cookies.
Here's an Alfie strip for Christmas at the pencil stage. I usually letter it first in the computer to get the accurate size for the final art. Also so that all my word balloons will fit in the strip and comic book naturally and not seem like they were jammed in with a crowbar.
