Completion Of Hour Letter

See you there? Intermezzo


is about to start this edition of Lucca Comics and Games. I'll be at booth
Rizzoli Lizard from Thursday 29 to Sunday, November 1.
So far, so good, I guess.

But I learn now that there must be a Showcase of myself by Gipi Thursday 29 at 18.00 in the area. I will draw again on camera while going forth with Gipi nicely (we've got it right. So, not the other way. Life is strange eh?) Possibly trying to stay alive.
(Note to myself: remember to update my support for multitasking). However

waiting for you. Come and I really want.

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beautiful messages continue to arrive here on the blog and in private. Feel like you have clothed yourselves in my little story is, I believe, the best gift an author can receive from its readers.

I thank you all and I will try to answer everyone. Meanwhile

google alert takes me, like a message in a bottle, a review of the 'improvised' in Italian. You can read

HERE

E 'Andrea Turek, I do not have the pleasure to know that but thank you.

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Materials Materials # 2 # 3

In a comic book as "Improvisation", the style adopted not seem to pose particular problems with the realism of the setting and characters.
In some way it is, but while working on this story, I felt the need to draw from a fairly accurate documentation. While drawing
places and situations familiar to me, I wanted the document to avoid the excessive confidence that would make me fall into the stereotype. Beginning with Elijah.
I also play the soprano sax, but I have never seen "outside" and then the identification between me and him had already given enough without getting too physical features.

Searching the internet I made a library mostly using images of Steve Lacy, who had the right physique, and ability on the instrument that required my character.

Here's an example:
I used these images in tables, as a repertoire of poses and shots. So:


For instruments more difficult to draw, as the battery, I did some small studies "dynamic", integrating my "field experience" with the photos, trying not to make mistakes "operation" the instrument (that's enough quotes, though!)
then use these sketches as models during the design of the tables.



also for the places I did a search on the Internet and a ride to photograph the streets, hills and houses ...




On other occasions, they were photos found in newspapers and magazines, by chance, to suggest an idea for a good shot. So I spent some time to pull pages, leaving everywhere magazine maimed, to the delight of Silvia. But I think I have made good use.


Finally, a last resort, the dear, old friends. Always there at your fingertips, you have people like you would not know even invent a thousand years.

Thanks Manu!

Drug Called Risperidone

I continue to accompany the release of the book here on the blog by putting other material showing a little bit of my way to work.

Today I want to tell of how the step from idea to finished board. At least the way I used in this book, because I'm not one who takes a liking to the methods, a bit 'because I always put them into question and a bit' cause I like too idearne new ones.

Take for example the plates 28 and 29
For each chapter, I spent a few days to write your notes in the form of dialogues on various pieces paper (sometimes even a notebook). After a few days to settle what has been written yet, I got a moleskine "light" (those bound with staples) and I started to put those pieces of dialogue in cartoons and collecting the cartoons on the boards.
In a very simple, dare I say rough.

What came out is not even a script and a storyboard. As you see, sometimes I have sketched the forms of characters but were not absolutely indicated for the shots, I did just to buy time if I was just the next line of dialogue. At this stage, only heard the voices, (as Bernadette!) I did not need to see action. I still do not understand why if I already clear all or because I had not the faintest idea (however inclined to the latter, as will the effort made in the tables below).
NOTE: This method has been repeated throughout the book is identical with the only change that at some point I found it more fun to do this pattern by writing to the computer with a toy that little program called "Comic Life".

At this point I began to sweat on the tables. A pencil first as a storyboard in size, with the mine cyan, and then directly above it, a pencil sharper with a mine 2b.


At this stage I did not put balloon cho tried to keep in mind the size of the text and drew freely.


Once done with 2B pencil, I wrote some notes in the margins, on questions of composition, or me "fuck" on some mistakes to remind me to make corrections.

then scan the tables, correcting the flaws more apparent, the cyan filter remove, and I added balloon lettering with photoshop and put a second color on the fly, with a graphics tablet to see if the atmosphere of the table was the one intended.


If all I met when I was a full chapter, the tables were leaving at a time via email to Nathalie (my talented translator, a must!) And then the publisher. If not, start again.


Once approved the boards came on the field on a light table. Print draft and polished everything with a mine on a HB fabriano f4.


Coming so my final version to be colored (if not all smear, the graphite does not forgive!).


Now, new scanning the final, minimum levels adjustment (because I liked the effect remained evident pencil), then, lettering final (of course I put here that you will find the Italian edition Rizzoli Lizard), staining simple ... in short, a few hours of photoshop

et voila here is the completed tables.

I repeated the game for about ninety tables and the book was done! Easy!

Cheeky Scottish Sayings

Party! Less than a

The paper boat has already started on the journey, we hope there are no waves are too high.
meanwhile arrived some nice message from readers (some are even in the previous post). I'm happy. Accompanying

for a while 'our boat, put it here in the blog that there is no material in the book (which also has a nice extra section ... ahem).

begin with a cover for the edition of discarded French.
few days before going to press, just come to the sea for a short holiday with my family joins me an e-mail editor. Suddenly it is no longer convinced that he had approved the cover (and that I had made), so I ask you to think (very quickly) another. I
, undecided whether to bless or curse my compulsion to bring my laptop everywhere, scanner and graphics tablet, I start to work (while my little family goes to bathe happily taking me for a ride). After several bounces

skype some sketches, at midday we arrive at a definitive.

Approved. Spending the afternoon in color and before dinner (just in time to accommodate the tourists who come back from the beach, happily taking me for a ride) we have the new cover!

I do not mind at all, although the cover previously approved I liked very much. Patience.
spent a few weeks and the package arrives with books.
trepidation I open e. .. I find the "old" cover! So I just have to sit down and try to decide if they are more pissed off about the work done in vacuum (at sea) nor more than happy to have the cover of choice for me.

(A few months later find out that liked the old cover all employees of the publisher and when they discovered that he wanted to replace l'hanno pressato finché non ha cambiato idea. Li devo ringraziare?).