Comic Book Project!! Options

[JapeNZ]

Hey guys my names Jon-Paul Smith (JP, Jon, Oi!, whatever works) I live in Wellington, New Zealand and having recently written a comic story/ script decided to have a go at drawing it too.

So here's an example of one of the pages I've done for my comic:




I've recently (last week) started a blog/ diary of my progress (www.comicbookproject.net) the images above are the next page due to go up. You can also download the script from there.

I haven't done anything like this before and it has been a massive learning curve for me already, as such I would very much appreciate some advice and/ or feedback for my work.

Thanks in advance for your help.
JP

[Ron Fortier]

I think you are an extremely gifted artist, but feel you are over-extending yourself with the inks. They seem a tad too much and darken the images more than needed. Would love to see you concentrate solely on your pencils at this stage of your career and see how other, professional inkers would embellish you work. You might be happily surprised. keep em flying!

[JapeNZ]

Hey Ron,
Thanks for the comment mate, I particularly liked the first bit hahaha you may be right about the inks, this was the first page I tried inking (as it has no background I thought it would be a good one to start with) and it was a real eye opener for me of the many techniques and styles people use when inking. Hopefully by the the time I get to the end of the story i'll be doing a more convincing job on this side of the process, this project is mainly about me trying to learn new things so fingers crossed over the coming months that's exactly what we'll see
That said if anyone wants to practice their inks on my pencils then please do so, it would extremely useful for me to see how others with more experience tackle the same subject matter.
Thanks again for your comments Ron, I look forward to hearing your thoughts as the project progresses.
Cheers
JP

[JapeNZ]

Right so here's the next page:




This leads into the final page of the chapter, once that's done I'll be doing the lettering for the whole chapter.
With that in mind is there any advice you guys can give regarding lettering? I've been using Anime Ace 2.0 BB font for the blog stuff and logo bits and I really like it.. however I am aware there are some definite lettering fopa's *cough* comic sans *cough* and would very much appreciate any insight I can get from you ever so helpful chaps

Cheers guys,
JP