to write the unwriteable wrong

I just finished my last assignment to turn in to my final comic book inking class tomorrow, and instead of sleeping, here is a round-up post of all of my Due South-related work from this class.

( All of the art )

ETA: Before I forget: now that class is over and I won't be getting any more critiques, should I want to continue any of these projects (or something similar), would anybody be willing and able to be an art beta? Basically, you would look at my pencilled versions of the comics and tell me, "Too many close-ups, I don't remember where in space they ARE" or "Too rushed--put fewer words in each panel," or "That doesn't look like Ray," or "That doesn't look like a human hand," or "I don't understand what's happening right here," or anything else that you think can be fixed, before I commit anything to ink. Let me know!

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Redo of my previous piece, a scene from American Way by resonant8. (The lack of outer panel borders isn't a stylistic choice, I just worked slightly bigger and it didn't fit in my scanner.)



Same style, different composition. In critique, my teacher pointed out that you really don't need to be zoomed out on what is essentially talking heads in panel 1, but in panels 2 and 3, the gesture is what is important, so zooming out and showing the whole body there made more sense. She also wanted to see more of Fraser's transformation, which was nice in that it allowed me to be a little closer to canon (by which I mean fanfic) in his movements.

A classmate pointed out that panel 1 was a golden opportunity to show Ray in the position Fraser ends up in the big panel, to play up how Fraser's mimicking Ray's body language. I think this was a good call. I didn't make it an exact mirror, but there are some similar elements.

I love when I get people who don't know DS at all talking about the characters. :D

I basically just redid panels 4-6, trying to improve them, but I think I ended up making them slightly worse. In general I feel like I've lost some charm. I should never revise. (Bad attitude!)

The inked version of my page one of my highly theoretical comic of Speranza's Chicago's Most Wanted. I say "highly theoretical" because ink wash takes SOOOOO LONG. This one page took me the better part of a day including "America's Got Talent" breaks. (How about that Prince Poppycock? Man, do I love dandies!)

Story by Speranza, art by me. If you missed them, check out pp. 1-3, pp. 4-6, pp. 7-8, pp. 9-11 pp. 12-14, and pp. 15-17. Only one more part after this!

Page 18 Sweaters!

Page 19 Recurring themes!

Page 20 I was considering not spoiling you for the extent of the kissing in the link images, but I was hard pressed to find anything else to thumbnail on this page.

Next time: Yes, there will be one more set! After all, we have to deal with Fraser's fake objections that suddenly happened in the final panel!

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Story by Speranza, art by me. If you missed them, check out pp. 1-3, pp. 4-6, pp. 7-8, and pp. 9-11.

Page 12 "Enmeshed, embroiled, and deeply embarrassed."

Page 13 Fraser Sr.!

Page 14 Fraser makes a choice.

Next time: Ray! (I always miss him when he's gone for a page or two.) I might be up to the famous disco line. [ds_noticeboard xpost]

Only two pages today; I'm moving tomorrow morning, and I need to go pack up my scanner now. My next batch will come up after I've got set up in my new place. And you know drawn them.

Story by Speranza, art by me. If you missed them, check out pp. 1-3 and pp. 4-6.

Page 7

Page 8

Next time: the return of Frannie!

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cesperanza gave me permission to use her work in a comic, so of course I had to do it! I was going to do maybe an excerpt, but, what the hell. I've started what will (according to my thumbnails) be a 20-page adaptation of her story, Interrogation.

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Anyway, I'll put more pages up as they get finished, and I hope you enjoy them as much as I'm enjoying making them!

[Crossposted to ds_noticeboard here]