Ben's Book of Banned Beasts- Page 2

hpkomic on July 25, 2007

From the site.

Now this page was an experiment that went mostly wrong. Notice how weird shaped it is? It's all because I was experimenting with a new process, (which I've perfected at this point) but did so much work on it I couldn't just scrap it and redo it. So what we end up getting here is a bit of a page that's off scale, but don't worry, next week's page is done exactly as I intended, because I had figured out the process after this one was finished.

So, what is the process exactly?

Well, my original idea was to draw a single comic page by drawing a sequence of panels across a few pages, my reasoning being that if I draw the panels larger over all, and just merge them into a single image later, I could have better line-art and more detailed panels than if I were to draw the contents of every panel on a single page. Now, this reasoning is sound, because it would work, my problem being that when I made my panels, I did them by hand and my measurements were entirely off, instead of getting to correct width, I ended up making the page much longer due to the size of the panels I made.

Then I thought about how for Cosmic Dash, I use digital templates to print up all the panels of the page. Why not do the same thing I tried with this page; just split the page into two parts, landscape-style and print them up using the computer's measurements and scaling, that way when scanned, they come together perfectly as though I drew them on a single sheet of paper.

You'll see how much nicer it turned out on saturday. :)