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Published: 2006-08-18 22:28:08 +0000 UTC; Views: 8379; Favourites: 85; Downloads: 8
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The first page from another of Gabe's stories. I think I tried to crowd too much into this page - but don't worry, it's supposed to be a little wierd and unclear and even dreamlike.Related content
Comments: 30
I wish to read this story so much! I need to know what happens!
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Absolutely beautiful! I really really really really really really love this piece... its so vivid yet so distant and its all just beautifully done!
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What I get from this is the girl grabs the gun because she hears her abusive boyfriend come home and knows he'll rape/beat her.
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Wow. It makes me really want to know what happens next!
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Gorgeous lineart, but I would really learn how to letter by hand with that style... it would fit so much nicer, and all... it's not hard.
No, it's lovely. The awkward way to follow it is good because it gives it a dreamy feel. The question I pose to most inkers... what are you using to ink, and how large of a paper are you inking on?
Nice stuff, keep it up.
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Micron .005 and .01, mostly, with a Sakura .07 for the borders. I really should have lettered by hand, but my handwriting is loopy and hard to read...
Oh, and I'm working on regular 8.5x11' paper, Wausau 'Exact Index' - it's reasonably cheap and reasonably bleed-proof and I really need to get to the office supply store to buy more soon.
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Heh... here's a tip on hand-lettering, then. You're not doing "handwritting". What you are doing is drawing individual letters. If you can get that mindset, you can draw any sort of letter without it looking a thing like your handwriting. My own handwriting is an illegible scrawl partly inspired by the Lord of the Rings scripts. But even if most of my inking is messy (gah, why won't it be unscratchy?!) I can do legable lettering.
Bleedproof paper would be good, yeah. Is a .01 smaller than .005? How are you filling in your solid blacks? If you're using a .005 or something, that'd take forever... heh... >.>
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Oh, I do the solid blacks on computer! Small spaces, I'll fill in with the .01, which is a little larger than the .005. But large ones, I just make sure the edges connect, select, and fill.
For commissions, I fill the big blacks in with sharpie marker before sending them off. I kill about one sharpie per two pages inked that way.
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...Ooooh. Lol. Yeah. I don't like Sharpies, because their black isn't really black (it's purple!), so I sort of generally awkwardly try filling in large black spaces with a brush. Really, REALLY big ones on a computer. Never really occured to just leave any large spaces and make sure they had lines around them... heh. But then, I'm not a photoshopper (lack the program...) and don't have a tablet, so I generally do as much as I can by hand.
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very nice hi-contrast ink work and congrats on your DD.
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Great drawings!! congrats!! i like them a lot!
I Wish i could make that kind of art
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love that stark black and white style. excellent!
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very good!
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"The Pain is timeless, but the Glory is Forever!"
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yeh it looks nice, but please, change the font in the balloons
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this is gorgeous... the timing and tension are wonderful -- it really grabbs you and pulls you in. very nice.
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I absolutely love your comic artwork! Have to think on "The Crow".
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Awesome harsh /stark lighting, really conveys that it's late at night. also loving the subtlety of the situation >w< good jerb as always~
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Oooh, super market religious candle! I love those things. I used to have many before I moved (I left them with my friends mom because I didn't want the glass breaking in the truck). The panel to the far-right in the middle is adorable.
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Are there more to come? Cause I really really want to see more now
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Yup. I'm going to finish illustrating these stories he gave me and wait for him to write a few more, and sell the result as a 20-page or so collection of vignettes. 
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oh pish. awesomeness is in the eye of the artist.
*squints* not bad for a heinous mary sue *says the person whose mary sue it is*
*chus4eva*
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Awesome! I look forward to it. You seem to be surrounded by awesome writers to draw for
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SO Gorgeous! ^___^ The sleeping hair lines are just enchanting.
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this page is fantastic, the "thunk" sounds of the boot really make the page come alive, great storytelling...unfortunately, the computer lettering shatters the illusion the fantastic illustrations create
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