A miscellany of weekly ramblings on comics, art and film by Ted Mathot, storyboard artist and writer/artist/self-publisher of graphic novels and comics
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Updating Rose and Isabel

I'm in the middle of preparing the Rose and Isabel books to be printed in their new compiled version. Along the way I'm making a few cosmetic changes, one of which is reducing all the text by one point to give the panels a little more breathing room.

In the panel below, I shrank the word balloon to find I had completely drawn Isabel's hand underneath. I decided to re-frame it and draw it out a bit to show the hand. The tones in R&I are going to get a bit of tweaking as well. I changed the tones on Izzy to be in better continuity with the rest of the page (the original tones were to reflect her dark mood, but I feel her attitude already shows that). Not terribly exciting stuff, but it's great to get back into the old artwork again.

old panel:


new panel:

2 comments:

Peter Oedekoven said...

I like the old one better...of course they are both nice but .....
Great work !

Maye said...

i like the old one better too... still both are beautiful