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This has been in the backburner since August 2006! I decided to spend my spring break actually drawing it and inking it out.
I wanted to color it, but it's been 36 hours that I've been working on it, and well, I think it's time to say that it's finished. So, back to back posts of this 12 page (sigh) comic!
I'm really proud that it's finished. It even has a heart-warming ending.
I feel proud of my developing talent. I'm also proud that about 75% of it was inked with India Ink, and not with a micron pen. (Which are superior, in my opinion) It's just, micron pens are kinda expensive. (I found some for $1.50, but the average is $2.75) India Ink costs about 2 dollars a bottle, and there is a LOT of black ink in there. The expensive part are the pen nubs, which range about 2 dollars each. I'm sure I can use them for a long time.
While Micron pens, they die after about 15-20 pictures. Pros is that I can ink at school, so I'm not exactly saying goodbye to them.
It probably took me about 3 hours to write the whole script. I drew thumbnails for them, which took a REAL lot of time. (From August to February) I went into blue pencil, because drawing it on the Tablet was a ass-pain. Hoping to cut time, I only penciled in some of the more difficult shapes, and inked directly on blue pencil. I decided NOT to ink the lettering and border boxes, since paint programs do the most accurate lines.
It probably took me about 15 hours for Blue pencil, and 5-7 hours for inking. Then, it took me 1 hour to scan. Afterwards, it took me about 3 hours to clean up any scanning smudges, adjust their size to a managable 800 x 1075, whiten up the gray-ness, and draw vector shapes for the border boxes. Finally, it took me about 3 MORE hours to copy/paste the text, and blacken the outside to give it more of a solid look.
I'll never be a mangaka at my speed. :(