So, since I ain't got a lot to talk about on this page (the whole "Fightin' Dirty" bit was Boolah's idea, and a good one at that), I suppose now is a good time to yammer about the current process I'm a using on this particular comic.
In HFSAC 18-22, I've been drawing and inking the book in my own take on the Kirby style (and by Kirby style, I mean 1970s Kirby style, because that's my favorite... Side note: Even saying Kirby style seems kind of ridiculous, since Kirby's art style changed with every passing decade. 1940s Kirby looks very little like 1960s Kirby. But I digress...), which for me currently means: Thick, muscular figures, thick, blobby areas of black, craggy environments, and Kirby Crackle at each and every given opportunity. Because I'm always trying to experiment, for HFSAC 18-22, I was also using Hand Coloring, basically using Colored Inks to Colorize my pages. As you can hopefully image, it was a long process to hand color each and every page, and then to unify and tweak the image in Photoshop afterwards. And, sadly, I wasn't really getting the look I wanted when it was all said and done (although Fire Effects looked good...). It was taking forever and all I ended up with was amateurish colors that looked like they were done with Marker (which is really frustrating when I had just spent 3 hours bent over a Lightbox carefully painting the pages with a brush).
So, for this crossover issue, I decided to do something different. In the previous issue (Bad Rapture Alpha), I had been working on using Photoshop colors "properly" (which I think means using Layers and occasionally adjusting the size of the Brush tool). So I brought that approach into this issue. For the color scheme, instead of just eyeballing it like I usually do, instead I scanned in some old Kirby pages from the 70s (some 4th World pages and some 2001 (gotta love 2001)), and I, much like a rapper, "sampled" the colors from those pages, giving me a simpler, but more psychedelic palette to work with.
Because I wanted the comic to look more old school, I dove into the Filter Menu on my Photoshoppy program and experimented until I found a setting the kinda gave me the "Dotty" look of the colors on older comics. So, I'm currently using the "NOISE" setting. If there's anyone out there that actually knows how to use Photoshop and knows a quick method for making the colors look "Old School", please drop me a line here on the blog.
Anyway, that's what up with HFSAC 23. I'm kinda liking it so far.
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