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Published: 2009-04-12 22:03:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 1679; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 33
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Description Still lacking the scanner, and now I've moved out, so scanning anything requires a trip back home. The plus side is that the place my friends and I moved into is huge, has extra rooms, and so now I have a studio. With an art desk!
(Considering that part of the reason you've seen so little finished art is that I spent six months in a flat that barely had room for a bed, let alone a flat surface of any kind, you have no idea how stoked I am to own an art desk).

Second page, hopefully I'm picking up, and brushing off the rust. Falling back into some old, bad habits here, I'm sure, and I absolutely hate that second panel (so unclear!). But I'll just keep plowing ahead and hope that I'll get better with each page I put under my belt. Six more of these to go!

...man, I miss the giant flatbed scanner at SCAD. Anyone know some tricks to get the smudgey gray out?

Page 1 is over here. Hooray!


And, of course, Booster, Beetle, and Impulse (yes, that's Impulse) are ⓒ DC Comics. I'm not working there. ... Yet.




Oh, and for the record...if you feel so inclined, please critique. This (and anything I get drawn between then and now) will hopefully go into a portfolio to show some editors, so if I'm doing something--anything--wrong, or something could be pumped up or whatever, let me know. Please.
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Comments: 8

Nightb1ade [2009-05-14 18:03:38 +0000 UTC]

Ah! I have no idea who they are but it is an excellent page. I'm so excited for you to be doing this as a career btw! And yes i agree about panel 2.
The only thing i can think with the fuzzy is levels and contrast...maybe a mask? I dont know *shrugs* I always fix that kinda stuff in photoshop after i scan it.

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Wendila [2009-04-20 22:03:09 +0000 UTC]

Dude, my three favoritest character's, all together in the same panel?!? It's like a dream come true!!!

Go Bart!

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RussH [2009-04-13 12:54:08 +0000 UTC]

Booster, Beetle and Impulse?

Works for me!


Not sure about the main panel - Booster looks a little short there. Could be the ear thing as Chiri-Ken said. Could also be his neck. Also, Beetle's costume is a little off around the upper chest, but you've captured their pesonalities there, wich is arguably more important.

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TheArtfulMegalodon [2009-04-13 01:49:31 +0000 UTC]

Smudgy gray? Either slide the levels to lighten the whole thing OR for spot smudgies, take the dodge tool set to "highlights" with a big fuzzy brush (the second set), middle-range opacity, and gently brush it out. Yes, maybe?

Still no Editor's Day news. Got anything?

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chiri-ken [2009-04-12 23:24:17 +0000 UTC]

I love Beetle's facial expressions. XD If I have any critique's, they're simply that the perspective of panel two feels odd (but I like the overall composition of it immensely) and the placement of Booster's head in panel 4 seems slightly off (it might actually just be his ear throwing things off--it looks awfully low). Oh, and the angle on the foremost fin of that flying thingie in panel 3. Other than that, I love it. The detail in the backgrounds is lovely, and I really want to know what they're saying! Some part of me wants to dub that last panel with a "Nyuk nyuk nyuk" kind of laugh. No idea why. ^__^;;

Give me more pages. As your manager, I demand productivity, woman! *nag nag*

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Silverene [2009-04-12 22:33:31 +0000 UTC]

Blue Beetle and Booster Gold - you win at the start with a combination like that.

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ThunderWolfang [2009-04-12 22:10:05 +0000 UTC]

Freaking cool!

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Noe-Izumi [2009-04-12 22:06:03 +0000 UTC]

You're amazing!

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