I’m done coloring the second strip. Not exactly motoring, but I ended up repeating my work from last night. I was determined to use the bucket but I had trouble coming up with a good way. What I had done was color on the same layer as the line art, but the result made it hard to undo mistakes and keep things clean. As it was, I had to redo the edges because the bucket wouldn’t fill in the whole shape. I’m sure there’s a setting that I’m screwing up (tolerance or anti-alias), but I played with both to no avail.
In any case, I started over this afternoon and came up with a much better result. I’m still using the bucket, but I’m making sure to make my color on its own separate layer, which made it easier to shadow. I still had to go over the edges by hand, but it was still much faster. After that, I spent a bit of time making some visual effects, of which the strip needed quite a few. I also made a decision re: fonts, as I needed to have an onomatopoeia but it wasn’t quite working with my manual lettering. I bought one of the blambot fonts and used that, and I’m happy with the result. I had gotten into such a groove with the second strip that I almost jumped right in with the final lettering but I stopped myself.
It’s really gonna be tight to have all these done by the end of Monday, even with a day off from work. I have to travel tomorrow, which is gonna take away some time, so even if I work all day Monday I see myself falling short. I think tomorrow I’ll start with lettering strip number one so I’m ready to go with that if I don’t finish everything. I’ll have the rest of this week to finish the first episode, as much as I wanted to have everything done.