With LJ's scrapbook as storage space I've finally decided to shut down my COLS (crappy old Lycos site) with its annoying ads, and move everything to LJ
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Glad you like, I hope you'll enjoy the rest as well. I'll post the remaining pages early next week, I think.
Chris Carter completely killed my X-files love,
You're not the only one who says that. X-Philes, as a whole, sound rather bitter when they talk about the later seasons. I stopped watching relatively early, mid-season four - when my favourite writer, Darin Morgan, left, the show lost a lot of its quirkyness which was the main reason why I loved it. But from what I hear about later seasons, yikes! I'm glad I stopped watching while it was still good.
This comic is early X-Files... so, we'll get MOTW instead of confuddled conspiracy. Well, maybe there's a tiny conspiracy hidden somewhere in here, too...;)
Is it ever! But yeah, I really like the layouts myself. The interesting thing is, I'm always itching to re-do the inking and the coloring completely. But recently I looked at the pencils, and I thought, hey, these still work. I'd fix anatomical details and half a dozen transitions that could be done better... change one minor scene... but overall, the layouts work. That's kinda cool.
Though if I were to re-ink this again (which I'm not gonna, but I mean purely hypothetically) I'd be way more generous with the blacks. This is still very ligne claire, and XF can do with some shades.
Thousand thanks for reccing this. I have no idea if there even are any active xf communities to pimp this in, so I'm very happy about the additional exposure.
And man, I should have thought about re-scanning the thing before. This looks just so much better in the higher resolution.
Great art...so often when I see graphic novel versions I can't recognize the characters. And I love the openness of tehlayouts. Looking forward to seeing the next set of pages.
Thank you so much. I'm still really happy with the layouts myself. And it's interesting... I haven't really looked at these pages in ages; they look a lot more European than the stuff I'm doing now.
I'm out of town right now, but I'll post the next set of pages soon as possible, probably tomorrow night. I hope you'll enjoy the rest of the story as well.
Heh. You have no idea how happy this makes me. On the one hand, I can't help but look at artwork with a critical eye so all the flaws jump right at me; but on the other hand I'm still really fond of this baby. :)
Chrome-Magnon was my first comic. Well, before that I had started working on one, got a few pages in but it was very, very rocky. *nostalgic*
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Chris Carter completely killed my X-files love,
You're not the only one who says that. X-Philes, as a whole, sound rather bitter when they talk about the later seasons. I stopped watching relatively early, mid-season four - when my favourite writer, Darin Morgan, left, the show lost a lot of its quirkyness which was the main reason why I loved it. But from what I hear about later seasons, yikes! I'm glad I stopped watching while it was still good.
This comic is early X-Files... so, we'll get MOTW instead of confuddled conspiracy. Well, maybe there's a tiny conspiracy hidden somewhere in here, too...;)
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Is it ever! But yeah, I really like the layouts myself. The interesting thing is, I'm always itching to re-do the inking and the coloring completely. But recently I looked at the pencils, and I thought, hey, these still work. I'd fix anatomical details and half a dozen transitions that could be done better... change one minor scene... but overall, the layouts work. That's kinda cool.
Though if I were to re-ink this again (which I'm not gonna, but I mean purely hypothetically) I'd be way more generous with the blacks. This is still very ligne claire, and XF can do with some shades.
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I love this Astrid; thanks so much for this.
Mind if I rec it?
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And man, I should have thought about re-scanning the thing before. This looks just so much better in the higher resolution.
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I'm out of town right now, but I'll post the next set of pages soon as possible, probably tomorrow night. I hope you'll enjoy the rest of the story as well.
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Chrome-Magnon was my first comic. Well, before that I had started working on one, got a few pages in but it was very, very rocky. *nostalgic*
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