Prologue: Page 7
I wasn't kidding last week when I said this page wasn't gonna be about fonts at all! Instead it's about...extremely regular, normal humans.
For example, meet Mrs. Bridgman. She wears regrettable shoulder pads, plucks her eyebrows too much in the middle, and has very muscular legs from Pilates. She's not a major character in this comic, which is why it's not a spoiler to tell you all these details ahead of time. And meet Louis Pepping! He does very well in school, but he doesn't really want to brag about it, due to his massive anxiety. He's pretty much the main character of this comic, along with Times New Roman, so if you haven't seen it already you can check out his "entry" on the cast page up top. I love him, he's my tiny shy baby, and I hope you'll grow to love him too. If you're wondering why the lettering seems a little messy on this page (in contrast to my careful font lettering in the previous scene) it's a careful choice I made to visually distinguish when a human is speaking, vs. when a font is. Of course, this doesn't really seem necessary in a scene with no fonts...but it'll become very important later on, trust me! |
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I have a bit of a different process for LoF than I did for my old webcomic: it's more involved, and I do much less of it on the computer. The ENTIRE run of League is already scripted (over 200 pages of script!) so I already know exactly what happens in each scene. I start by dividing each scene in the script up into approximate page breakdowns, and thumbnail each page. (A thumbnail is like a messy "rough draft" of a page). I do more detailed thumbnails for League than I do most things, and rather than drawing them tiny, I draw them at 50% of the final page size. I then scan them in, blow them up to the page size, and print them out just on plain printer paper.
I use the thumbnail lines as a rough sketch, and pencil on top of them (just using a mechanical pencil on printer paper - I don't think there's always a need for fancy supplies!) For inking, I lay a piece of transparent vellum on top of my pencils. It's like a thicker version of tracing paper. I ink on top using a traditional dip pen that I dip into a bottle of ink, and technical pens for things like the panel borders and lettering.
Then I scan the comic and color it in, using a software called Photoshop! But you could pretty much use any software you want to do the kind of coloring I do. I don't use any special effects for shading, it's all just flat colors, and I'll adjust the values by hand if I want the colors lighter or darker.
I also optimize all of League of Fonts for print, so the entire comic is designed to print nicely into a book someday. I hope that helped, and if you have any more questions feel free to ask!! :)
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I'm so glad Louis's feelings are relatable to you - you'll get to see even more of them tomorrow!
Glad to see you're back and have recovered enough to do stuff you are passionate about again.
At the same time, even though I always have SOME topical jokes that'll connect things firmly to the present day, in general I try to keep my longer narrative comics slightly timeless, incorporating elements from various decades. That way, the story won't seem to get dated quite as easily! That's one reason a lot of my protagonists rarely use cellphones, for instance.
Louis's bangs, however, seem much more in tune with 2000s styles.
I could probably safely avoid 80s fashion for the rest of my life... late 90s fashion though, I must admit I seem permanently stuck in it during my casual hours... jeans, black concert tees, and even the sideburns, when my jobs allow for such things (in my defense,I have had sideburns my whole life, including as a baby).
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It's great to see your work again. I look forward to watching this story develop and it seems like you're already off to a fantastic start. I can't imagine trying to hand letter all those fonts, but then I dabbled in calligraphy at one point too so maybe I can, either way it's a ton of work. Your style and artwork on this comic so far have been lovely.
I'm glad to hear you're doing better now than you've been.
I'm so happy you like this comic so far, I've worked really hard to make the art as good as I feel befits the story. People seem to be really enjoying the hand-lettered fonts, whereas to me it felt like a no-brainer that that's what I had to do to make things look nice, haha!
I'm really glad I'm doing better as well. Thank you for the well wishes!
I'm so happy you're excited for this character!
I'm so happy you're appreciating my little details and this comic overall! It means a lot to me!