That's an old Photoshop trick: on a separate layer, fill in the cone of light in pale yellow, then make that layer transparent. Instant light-wash-out.
Once it gets to the sex stuff, I'm drawing it about as graphically as possible I never see the point of dealing with sex but shying away from the details, and given the script you sent me you seemed to have a similar inclination.
Ah, good old porn comics. Why let film and literature have all the fun? As a straight lad some of my faves were Cherry Poptart and Omaha Cat Dancer, so it's cool to see the genesis of the other side, so to speak.
I actually think that comics are uniquely suited to deal with sex. You get the visual element, which you don't have in prose, but it's the illustrator creating the imagery directly, as opposed to film where it's an actor. The shape of the bodies, the poses, all that, can be exactly as the person drawing it wants it to be.
Porn is a special case of the "comics have an infinite effects budget" principle. You can produce images that aren't possible in real life for the same price as images that are possible. For example, body parts can be whatever size you want, without CGI or prosthetics.
But... But... The drink cup tipped over on the bed when there's a perfectly good night stand next to the bed. My cleaning OCD is in the way of enjoying the page.
Lol, so that was your inner sadist, pushing people's OCD buttons by having the cup tip over? It worked, because actually that bothered me in the script when I read it, I immediately thought- but, but how much beer is in there? There's gonna be a stain! They'll be having sex in beer! Heh, but I drew the cup tipping over because that's what you wrote :P
Porn is a special case of the "comics have an infinite effects budget" principle. You can produce images that aren't possible in real life for the same price as images that are possible. For example, body parts can be whatever size you want, without CGI or prosthetics.
"Everybody's Doin' It!" consists of four parallel stories, with one panel per story on each page for the first 8 pages. Each of the next four pages is then dedicated to bringing one story to its climax, followed by another page giving a panel of epilogue to each one. For the sake of keeping the characters on-model, I've been inking just one story at a time, rather than doing the panels in page order. If this doesn't make sense... never mind... it'll make sense when people see the whole thing. The point of all of this is that I've finished inking one of the four stories. Here is the one page dedicated to that story. NSFW warning: it's the climax of a porn story... do the math.
If anybody wants an update, I've done full pencils on the story all the way through the end now. I'm trying to have it inked in the next couple of days, but I'm also doing a story to read at two readings I have coming up: No Straight Lines release party at Books Inc. on Thursday, and a release party for Jon Macy's new Fearful Hunter book on Friday. So, I'm juggling stuff, but working a ton, the rest should be up soon!
@RickWorley - What are you inking with? I'm always curious what people use to complete their books.
@JasonAQuest - The art in the spoiler is good, but I guess it's the facial expressions that are holding it back. They don't look bored, but not all that excited, either. Or is that how the story is going?
I ink with a few things. For my cartoon characters sometimes I use brushes or brush pens, for human characters I usually use nib pens, usually Hunt 102 or 108. Most of this story had been done with a Hunt 102. I've also been using some more micron pens for more straight lines. Things like panel borders, the lines on the headboard, and the symbols on the costumes, have been done with Micron pens. Large black areas have mostly been done with a brush pen, or a thicker Micron pen.
I've finished inking the second of four 13-panel storylines for "Everybody's Doin' It". (Last panel here.) This one took me 8 days to ink, which is a lot less time than the first storyline took... but still. I need to do two panels/day for the next couple weeks to get this finished by Labor Day. (That includes time for colors. Thankfully there's no lettering.)
In my defense (?) some of the time I spent "inking" this past week was tightening up really sketchy pencils, or in a few cases, redrawing things. But that just tells you how bad my penciling productivity the last few months really was.
Nonetheless, while I won't go all hyperbolic and claim that I'm doing the best work of my (ahem) career here, it is turning out better than a lot of past drawing. Nothing like having a writer to please for tightening the Quality Assurance standards.
The good news is that it's OK that I've fallen a bit behind schedule in drawing "Everybody's Doin' It".
The bad news is the reason: the venture it was going to be a part of isn't going to happen. It was going to be part of a digital-publishing initiative by Dale Lazarov, to leverage his social-networking audience, and for a few reasons he's decided not to go thru with it. He's offering me the option of A) publishing the story myself (paying royalties to him... essentially the reverse of the original arrangement), or sitting on it until he has a print anthology to include it in.
Option A would depend on me being able to sell it better than he thinks he could. Not likely. Option B would mean that I don't see any return on the past several months' work for the foreseeable future. Which puts it in the same category as... everything else I've ever done.
After sleeping on it, I think I'm going to... continue sleeping on it. So by default, I'm waiting to see if Dale comes up with another place to put the story. Eventually, I'll be in a position that I can publish it myself somewhere/somehow, so if Dale doesn't use it I will.
I'm scratching a few other itches at the moment (e.g. coloring Rick's pages), but I'll get back to this story pretty quickly and finish it... I don't want it on the list of Unfinished Projects that litter my life.
I've finished coloring "Seduction of the Innocent". Not spectacular work, but it involved dealing with highlights and lowlights on objects, and a few different kinds of lighting. NSFW thumbnails (too small to see the high/lowlights) follow:
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Btw, Rick, I do love your art style!
Besides, it isn't a party until something gets spilled. :O)
http://awasteoftimecomic.tumblr.com/ Will probably blog more about them a bit later on.
Just three more stories to go.
http://awasteoftimecomic.tumblr.com/
In my defense (?) some of the time I spent "inking" this past week was tightening up really sketchy pencils, or in a few cases, redrawing things. But that just tells you how bad my penciling productivity the last few months really was.
Nonetheless, while I won't go all hyperbolic and claim that I'm doing the best work of my (ahem) career here, it is turning out better than a lot of past drawing. Nothing like having a writer to please for tightening the Quality Assurance standards.
The bad news is the reason: the venture it was going to be a part of isn't going to happen. It was going to be part of a digital-publishing initiative by Dale Lazarov, to leverage his social-networking audience, and for a few reasons he's decided not to go thru with it. He's offering me the option of A) publishing the story myself (paying royalties to him... essentially the reverse of the original arrangement), or
Option A would depend on me being able to sell it better than he thinks he could. Not likely. Option B would mean that I don't see any return on the past several months' work for the foreseeable future. Which puts it in the same category as... everything else I've ever done.
I'm scratching a few other itches at the moment (e.g. coloring Rick's pages), but I'll get back to this story pretty quickly and finish it... I don't want it on the list of Unfinished Projects that litter my life.