What to write in page boy thank you card
#comicscamp2020 Wednesday Live = THANKS Page!
all right hey everybody
good afternoon it's comics camp and
comics workshop 2020 over at
merrickbennett.com
and uh we have a project to do this
afternoon
i'm taking another little break from all
the graphic novel work
i'm doing i'm setting up books and i'm
gonna do a little
one one sitting project here so my goal
is
in about 25-30 minutes we will pencil
ink and maybe even start to erase
a single page project that we can then
use
and this will be really useful to you
this is something i'm going to use
um and i'll just keep that on the side
here this is something i'm going to use
and something you can use in your own
comics practice in terms of keeping in
touch with people
um and it's going to be a little thank
you card
and i've been thinking of thank yous
because as we're wrapping up the summer
season getting ready for the fall season
i'm thinking of all the people who have
helped make the summer season such a
special
fun time so let's see i'm going to start
like i start
every page of comics by lightly roughing
out
the safety zone the margin the frame
for where my art can live where my where
my live area is on the page
and where the outside beyond the edge is
going to be
and i'll do my whole picture within this
live area actually i'm going to try
something i'm going to try an
advanced frame today so i'm going to put
a second frame within
this live area i'll do that a little
darker because that frame
is actually going to be the border let
me i'll put it a little closer
that'll actually be the border
that i draw as a box but then i'm going
to have things kind of coming out of
that box and they're going to stick
out of that box but not go all the way
to the edge see how that
point can kind of point out of the box
there but not go near the edge of the
paper so i can
i can kind of have things jumping out of
the drawn box
and then if you think of this outer box
as the imaginary margin
i'm not going to ink that all right
so you could do just one margin if you
want on your page i'm going to do this
advanced double margin a lot of artists
use this
all right so the box this will be my
frame
and then the safety zone is even a
little further out towards the edge
and i'm going to start with just a
single word in here you can do this
however you want to do your page
whatever message you want to send with
this page i'm thinking this is a
page on i'll print out copies of and
i'll use it as a card i can write
you know on the copies i can write a
note on the back but i want it to say
thanks that's the message i want to get
across here so i'm just going to write
that nice and big here in sort of tumble
down
big letters and this if you want to do a
thank you note you can do this too
thanks it's kind of hard to write so big
because my letters aren't my hands
aren't used to making letters quite this
big
but i think i can fit them in
thanks let's not crowd that k too much
we'll squeeze an
s in there and this will be a smaller
little exclamation mark
you know your your message could be
hello or
you know greetings or hope you're well
or something i'm going to use this as a
thank you card
so i'll do thanks and thanks is
something you can always use you know
i find if i have a card or a picture or
something that says thanks
i can pick a copy of it i can keep a
stack by my desk i'll grab a copy write
a note on the back
and there you go kind of pushes me to uh
to do that more
so notice how this t comes outside my
inner box
and it stops right at my outer box
that's how i'm going to use this inner
and outer box
so now i'm going to make these bubbly or
blocky
so i'll go along that bar of the t i'll
go along this bar of the t
look at that it is a block t i followed
my
my skeleton and now i can erase it and
i'll erase that inner border too because
i want these letters to
pop out of that inner border but not get
too close to the edge
i can leave that skeleton in there or i
can erase it now
i'm thinking these letters will kind of
tuck in and around each other
so let's see they're they're kind of
like i said tumble down letters they're
flying every which
way they're rolling across the page i
like that
some can be taller than others can be a
little
messy and then i am going to go my
ultimate plan
is i'm going to go into these spaces
around the letters
and put in things that i think my
readers would like or that i
um actually i'm going to put in a few
memories from the summer characters from
the summer here
so i can use this as a thanks card
there's our h
moving along i noticed my a and n and k
got a little squished because i realized
i was running out of space but
i can kind of correct that now and make
them nice and fat
maybe i'll tuck the what do you think
the a in front of the end now the end's
going to look
we'll miss the end i'm going to tuck the
n in front of the a
so the a behind the end and have to plan
this out
so that we don't lose any of the letters
let's see if we can get this n in front
and then we'll tuck the a back here
and will it still be readable i don't
know
let's see we can um sort of step back a
little ways from it and
yeah i hope that end is readable if i if
i
if i cover up that leg of the end it's
going to look like a v
so i'm being super careful here you know
if i need to i can
move some of these letters around it's
not the end of the world if i erase them
completely and move them let's make sure
this k
is going to fit here let's make that k
i am going to move that k it's getting
awfully close see how that n is getting
squished
this is the fun of penciling live
penciling sometimes when i come on here
i pencil ahead of time
so that i can work out some of these
problems but i kind of like
showing that we all encounter these
problems as we draw
this is unrehearsed unpracticed
let's tuck the k up here it can kind of
fit around
the s like that yeah that's going to
look nice
and we can jump it out of the box here
we can jump it across the s here
we can start the s down lower right
tuck it down below the k it's all
creative problem solving
that's what art really is right creative
problem solving
in ways that other people might not have
thought of before
or encountered before if you're being
really creative
this is just standard lettering though
let's make that
exclamation mark a little bigger there
and then you know we can
back up from the picture look at it from
a distance and squint and look at it
from an angle and it still looks like
the word thanks
so that's going to work the other thing
i want to do with these letters
is i want to come in here and
and bring some lines down from each
corner i'll bring the same distance line
down
in the same direction and then if i
connect these lines along this other
line that edge
and make a parallel edge like that
does that make it look sort of like a
block
parallel edge to this front edge front
edge here the back edge will be parallel
more or less there we go that looks like
it's floating on the page
so we'll try that with the h will bring
equal length lines down from each corner
now this corner i will bring that down
but
but it's tucked in behind the front of
the h so i don't even need to
do that corner just the corners that
aren't tucked behind the front
unless you want your letters to sink
into the page and then you do it the
other way around i'll try that the next
time
all right parallel to the front edge
bring all our parallel lines parallel to
the front edge
there we go that's looking nice and
blocky and then we can even
you know we can even come in here and
shade in
and darken behind i think we'll draw
things in there but we'll probably shade
in and darken
and that's really gonna boom bring those
letters
out there thanks and really jumps off
the page
let's angle this one a little
differently
there we go here i don't think we can
see either of these corners
but that front edge will be like
somewhere like there
and then let's bring it down here okay
whoops let's try to get that at the same
oh that looks kind of cool having them
go in different directions it looks like
the letter is expanding let's just stick
with that
parallel lines see how this one goes
down
and this one doesn't go down the same
angle it's like the letter is kind of
shifting there that's cool
let's bring this one down this one over
and that's going to be hidden behind the
end
let's have this end go in the other
direction
that'll make it look even more jumbled i
don't think we can see that one
at all
so we'll bring parallel lines along
there we go now this k let's bring that
in the same direction
so the these letters are kind of tipped
this way these letters are tipped this
way it looks like it's kind of
folding into the paper that's kind of
cool accidental
but cool i'm going to bring this k back
a little bit
on the outer edge so that we have a
chance to
bring these corners down
and not violate our space agreement with
the edge here i don't want to get too
close to the edge because stuff gets cut
off at the edge
let's bring these lines straight down
for the s
now this is tricky this curve it needs
to be parallel to this curve
if curved lines can be parallel so i'm
just going to try to get it
about looking right as long as it about
looks right i think i'll be happy
this one too curved and we'll bring this
dot over in a curved line parallel to
the front edge
bring these lines back there we go
and we'll color in there okay couple
things in the corners because we have
all this space around
this before we ink it i want to do the
corners because then
i can have things come in front of this
i can move things around a little
if i ink this now i can't make changes
to those lines but that's looking good
i'm not even gonna take the extra time
to erase
all these letter skeletons because i
just won't ink them
and we'll erase them last right we'll
save ourselves a little time
i can see that it looks okay it's gonna
work
all right 10 minutes in we've got our
letters down all right
what was next i was thinking i don't
know things people might
like from the comics we've drawn like
my hat flying saucer remember that so
i thought i'd draw like up here i think
i'm going to have like a few
scary monster things here and moving
across and as you move across
you end up like in growing trees in a
garden and comforting
just so it moves from scary to
comforting so let's see i like to do
this
sort of oval shape and a dome on top
and then like a little portal underneath
this is also a perfect uh flying
sombrero right
it's sticking out beyond the inner box
but it's not going up to the outer box
so it's
not too close to the edge right
and then we can put some
circles around that just so it doesn't
look like a flying sombrero it starts to
look like a flying saucer
maybe there's like some some beams
coming out
so we can do this whoa
[Music]
and maybe like the t is cracking maybe
the beams are like
stressing the t or maybe they're holding
it together i don't know
i'm going to do a couple cracks coming
down here and following this line
and maybe part of the t is like shifting
maybe there are a couple pieces
coming out
that could be exciting like i said i
want this side to be the exciting side
and the other side as you read across
the right side to be the soothing side
there we go the t is um looking a little
stressed
maybe the flying saucer is holding it
together i don't know i'll put a couple
stars up here
oh and this could be cool we could
actually
black in the sky behind it that'll look
really cool
i'll put a couple more stars in maybe
one
sticking up over the edge of that inner
border just a little bit
anything that sticks up over that edge
will sort of
come forward and jump out at you
all right that's cool that also calls
attention to the light line i'm not
going to spend a lot of time blacking
this
because i will black it when i come in
with my ink
how about a nice little dinosaur monster
here
let's see coming in on this corner
let's bring in lobster claw style bring
in the top of the head
we'll give it nice big fangs
we'll give it nice big fangs underneath
you can decide if you want that to be a
lobster claw
or a dinosaur head the dinosaur head
either way you're going to want to erase
these lines
right so that that comes in front and
this one goes behind
the dinosaur head is going to have like
a little eye it can look friendly
it can look scary it can look however
you want
friendly and scary it'll maybe have
nostrils here you won't see the other
eye because it's on the other side
if it's a lobster claw it just won't
have the eye and it'll have like a big
arm coming and maybe like
eyes on stalks down here
maybe your dinosaur monster has eyes on
stocks i don't know
i'm going to bring this claw up and grab
the
edge of the letter
there we go and then i'll erase the
letter here and that that really
it helps the dinosaur look real looks
solid and it helps the letter look solid
too
let me put a let's put a lobster claw in
here up above
just to practice that i'll use the same
approach i'm going to angle those teeth
of the claw a little bit
then maybe i'll make it segmented on the
arm
put the eyeballs here right so you do a
stalk
a circle and a dot that can be the eyes
of the giant crab or whatever it is
grabbing the letter
and maybe this dinosaur like comes
around
and you get a lashing tail how about
bring that up in front of the letter too
i don't think you can see the legs
because the legs oh let's put the legs
on yeah we'll do it like
sitting on its back put a back leg on
here
and a claw
there we go oh it's like on its back
grabbing this with all four limbs
i don't think we have to draw i'll draw
the other claw in here grabbing
but i don't think you can see the other
arm i think it's behind the head or
something that would make things a
little
complicated to do so i'm going to come
in here and just show where the darkness
goes
right in here and here if you want to
have a ton
you can have that tongue come out stick
out in front
of the letter maybe wrap around it or
something
that looks pretty cool and i'll darken
in here and there could be little faces
or something you can tuck whatever you
want in there
what should we have tucked in here i'm
thinking more stars
i don't want it to be too scary and
cataclysmic
i'll just pop a few stars in here
as if they're coming out through the
falling out of the sky
down into this area makes it look a
little sparkly and special too
maybe another star up here sticking in
front of the letter i really like that
look
you can put little faces on your stars
whatever all right i think maybe here
there's a big spot over here so maybe
here like
a big sun in the sky but you can't see
all of it
now that means we're gonna have to take
this night sky give an
edge maybe put a couple clouds in here
and that'll transition
and we'll darken those clouds nice okay
this is looking nice it's going to be
really full of details look like things
are just flying out through all the
letters
i'm going to put myself down here and
i'm going to draw myself in rabbit form
as i like to do
i don't want my ears to block the
letters so i'm gonna stick them up
across the letters like that but not
make them too big
in fact maybe i'll just do like
a little head with a face smiling
and that will be my self-portrait in
here
because there is some space under those
letters but if i come up too far into
the letters i'm going to block them
maybe maybe i am holding let's see i'll
give myself an arm
i'll do my three fingers and a
thumb for the hand right that's very
simple
hand it's a right hand so i got the
thumb on this side
and i just do cartoony wise i just do
three fingers usually
and the thumb kind of tucks over them so
it's one two three circles and another
circle for the thumb
boom cartoony hand and let's see let's
put let's make this a pencil we'll just
give ourselves a nice long pencil
with a point not going into my ear but
used to draw with
there we go in front over behind the
tail i don't know
how about in front all right
everything's tying together nicely this
will all be darkened when we
ink that'll look really nice we did that
with our
um toothbrushing alligator the other day
we tucked in the darkness behind it to
bring out the foreground
maybe i'll give myself some hearts and
stars down here i like these
flip these shapes that kind of float
through the picture
and add to the emotion of the picture
what are we going to do maybe like an
eyeball peeking out of
the a oh yeah let's put a couple
eyeballs in here so i'm going to tuck it
behind the a like that
and give it feet like it's sitting here
give it a sparkle in its eye
maybe another eyeball here climbing and
give it a sparkle in its eye
one foot there one foot there maybe it's
that's an adventure eyeball so we'll
give it a
an adventurer's cap like
indiana jones eyeball i don't know there
we go
what else let's see we have um oh i said
i was going to get into trees and
gardens and things over here so maybe
there's like
branches coming in front of the letters
and i'll do just dark branches
going down here
maybe a bird sitting up here right so i
can give it a round head
little bent teardrop shape a beak
two legs one dot for an eye maybe i do
the wing
it's a cartoon bird right maybe two
birds so let's do that
bent teardrop two legs about two eyes
and a beak round curve for the wing and
there you go two birds sitting up on
those in the spaces up there
do a couple more branches maybe another
branch coming out between those letters
the more you work at this and sort of
bring things around your
details you know the more the more ideas
you get really
i'm thinking i'm thinking there's a
tentacle coming out of here
for some reason it seems like
that's a place for a tentacle so i'll
just curve it around put the suckers on
it
i don't know what's back there but it's
hiding in the clouds
there we go
this will all be dark dark i'm going to
leave a little space
here so that i can you know
put a little message or sign it or put
the date or something when i send this
to somebody
if i use this as a printable card
what else was i going to add oh the
flowers right so we'll put a flower
peeking out through the n here
and put another one jumbled tumbled in
front of them
in front of the n in front of that cloud
i'll leave this blank so i can sign it
oh look at this this s should come
down there there we go and here i'm just
going to tuck
flowers behind these letters and that
detail will be the darkness that kind of
brings the letters out um maybe i
maybe that's my final idea i just tuck
all these flowers in here
right because we are at 22 minutes
of drawing here so we are getting there
we want to be done
soon because i said one setting one
sitting let's put some ink on
all right i think this is looking good
just looking around for any spaces where
i've neglected to put things in so we've
got
some mysterious fantasy stuff some
old friends from eyeball week mysterious
tentacles
we've got some nice comforting flowers
and trees and we have
um well self-portrait we have rabbit
here with a pencil as if
rabbits just signed here and a little
space where i can sign
so let's just put some ink on we may not
finish the inking entirely
but i'm thinking um if i can rough
out the letters here um
and then go in i'll rough out the
letters with my thick marker
and then i'll go in with my thin pen and
i'll do the fine details behind it
then i'll come back and i'll do the
blacks
in the background there so let's see i'm
going to come in here carefully with my
thick marker
like i said this t is going to be a
little crunchy and crumbly here
so we want to reflect that in the line
i am going to
not go over my lobster claw not go over
i go
under all the parts of my dinosaur
that are not
that's a front edge isn't it i have to
make a decision here if i ever
can't decide remember my rule of thumb
oh that looks really nice
that looks really nice when it's shrunk
down like that you get a little distance
from it
and it pops off the page that's
beautiful oh this is going to look so
cool i get so excited about these
pictures when i see them coming out
remember my rule of thumb when i'm
trying to decide between thick lines and
thin lines
is if i'm not sure i'll go with the thin
line
right i'm not sure what these edges
these front edges on the letters need
but looking at this from a distance i
like the thick lines
so i'm going to stick with that just for
the outline i'll do the inside lines in
thin here i'll show you
i'll do these inside lines in thin and i
can always
thicken them up right
but it's much harder to go back and make
the line thinner
is still possible but a little trickier
and these cracks will be definitely thin
lines
except maybe a couple darkened spots
where it's really falling apart
right maybe that crack isn't quite so
big
there we go
is it still a t it still looks like a t
i don't want it to
like completely fall apart for your eye
you know
okay the other thing we might want to
consider
doing i haven't decided on this yet is
coming in and doing some
lines to shadow
these bottom sides of the letters you
know to make that a little darker
and if i haven't decided yet i'm going
to wait on that
i can always scan this in get an image
without those lines and add them in
later
i think my flying saucer will benefit
from a
thick bold outline maybe that front edge
gets bold
too and then all the details will be
thin lines
but like i said i want to do these
letters first so i've decided
front edges and overall shape
thick line in front of that eyeball
and then oop tuck it behind
these stars and then the front edges and
internal lines
will be thin lines those are internal
lines i think
and you know if you notice a spot like
here that seems to be all
one thing and it doesn't have some
detail maybe it could have if you get an
idea like maybe a star
right there we'll go in and add that in
it'll save us a little inking time later
anyways
there's a little piece of the tee
falling off
here's the front edge of our h
oh this is going to be so funny can't
wait to
print this up send it around to people
so the reason i was thinking of a
thank you note is because it's been just
such a crazy
summer season like no other comics camp
season i've done where
usually most summers for the past
almost 20 years now um i go around to
libraries and summer camps
and do workshops in person and this year
obviously we've done them all
virtually like this which has its pros
and cons
it's been really fun it's been a
learning curve
i definitely made as many mistakes as
possible to find out
what kinds of things can go wrong here
but it's been really fun to draw with
you
all summer and i'm thinking i'm going to
send out some
august mailings to some of my patrons on
the patreon
right here's the uh my main site is
merrickbennett.com if you head over to
patreon.com and look me up merrick
bennett um
you'll see there you can support the
comics workshops that we're doing and
i'm getting ready to do
a fall series like this
you know it's going to kind of continue
the summer it's going to be a little
different i'm setting up a different
schedule
and i just want to first tell patrons
hey thanks for
thanks for back in the summer camps
stick around
got a lot coming up in the fall actually
i did a little card about that
so fall workshops comics workshops for
fall 2020 we're getting ready to do
oh wait a minute sorry lettering issue
um so the front edge of this a
i think even though it's internal needs
to be
bold like that otherwise it won't really
look like a hole through the a
but that sitting back sitting back from
the page a little that there i can see
the hole in the a
good let me come in with the thin lines
and check that
i think one of the things i want to do
for the fall
now is a good time you know to
reevaluate and who knows what the fall
is going to be like right everyone's
going back to school and stuff
i'm not going to do any school visits
i'm gonna focus on
uh various books that i'm putting
together a couple graphic novels we'll
have in kickstarter and stuff like that
um that looks okay there again that
might be a place where we wanna
shade in there just to bring out the
hole in the a
okay this is how the summer is gone so
many things going on at once
in a good way
so i'm not doing any school visits um
this fall but i will do
regular probably pretty much weekly
couple times a week i hope um live draws
of whatever i'm working on
summer has been interesting doing a
different
theme every week i'm really looking
forward this
fall to just really uh
i have a bunch of projects i have like
freeman freemancolbyvolume3 i'm just
going to knuckle down
set a page goal per day and
it's kind of fun maybe i'll just come on
and share what i'm working on
as i'm working if i have something that
i want to show you
and that'll be part of making a graphic
novel page by page
all drawn from historical documents
um so that'll be fun to share
and then um i'm also putting together
our loon tunes
project from this summer in a
lead pollution awareness how to draw
book
and we have a couple projects like that
coming together
and what else do oh we have the jeremiah
crocker project which is a bunch of mini
comics
and that's really cool that's i'm going
to be just posting episodes from that
all fall as i
investigate the history of slavery here
in the north in new england that has
been
an eye-opening project to be involved in
and there's lots to come on that
i'm doing the thin lines now the
internal lines on these letter forms
and i keep looking up at my screen and
looking at this
as you know from a little ways away as a
smaller image
because that really helps me make sure
the letters are coming out of the paper
um are visible or popping right
are um gonna catch your eye and be easy
to read and this k i'm a little
concerned about but this
also might be a way because there's so
many little lines in here it can kind of
confound and confuse the eye right but
this
also might be a place to come in
and do more of that shading wherever the
letters kind of
tuck in like that and that hopefully
will help bring out the lighter the the
brighter lighter front of the letter
which is really what you need to see
in order to recognize it's a k and not a
bunch of boxes jumbled together
that's looking okay
yep so freeman colby volume three
elune's book jeremiah crocker
episodes and a couple new graphic novel
projects coming together so i'm
thinking a lot about the fall and what's
sustainable and how to do it
and it'll be run through i'll do as much
as i can
publicly but it will be run through the
patreon
so that's patreon.combennett
and that'll have all the updates all the
invites
and advance releases of stuff so that's
been really fun to do
this summer all right i'm going back in
maybe what do you think
thick line or thin line for the outside
border um if i can't decide
i will always do thin line because i can
go back later and make it thick right
so i'll tuck this line behind my
bump out features in front of the sun
those birds could have bumped out a
little bit that's all right
come down here there it is there it is
come down here oh we could put another
i just had an idea of where could it go
maybe another claw just sticking over
right here like there's many monsters i
guess we need like a little
eye or something
there we go oh it's a little mystery
demon monster
climbing up all right sometimes you're
drawing and these things just need to
peek over the edge right
um let's see i'm going to change these
eyes a little bit
because i notice that black pupil
against a black background will not be
visible
so i'm going to bring the pupil into the
middle of the eye so it's like
looking at us there we go
the monster lobster claw
you know what the live draws will be
this fall um they may be
more like pages that i'm working on for
the graphic novels for freeman colby
volume three
a bunch of story lines there that are
really
really interesting and challenging and
fun and i'm looking forward to sharing
them with you
um or we could also do like
a little series on monsters or something
fun that's kind of like this a
side project
i'll also take patron suggestions too
has anyone really been even as decided
as i don't know
we're getting some comments there i'm
not sure try typing it again
see if i can answer your comment
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you um something something you also it's
hard to plan for these
upcoming seasons because if something
really grabs you
as you're working on it sort of like the
jeremiah crocker project has
then you just have to work on it that's
part of how this
this work goes it's creative work
when the inspiration hits you gotta you
gotta pour your all into it so
that's what i'm going to do this fall go
from project to project
work on each a little bit each day and
then
every now and then come on and share
what i'm working on
i feel like in the summer season
now i'm just sort of thinking and inking
at the same time
i feel like in the summer season boy
it's the end of
august and i'm about where i wanted to
be in terms of this work
by the end of july right so i'm about a
month behind so
my solution is well you know i'll just
bring this work
into the into september we'll be making
graphic novels in september i'll just
share some parts of that
putting together some more stuff from
the summer
like this thank you card i can send
around to patrons
with maybe the new jeremiah crocker
16 page mini you know that shares some
of that project
or i have a bunch of minis i have like
my um
the cuss bluey well that gives away the
story the true tales story
um that i have to fold up and make into
an eight-page mini you know and i'll
send those around
include a thanks card once it's done
i think you can see how this is turning
out
that star just hopped in front of this
cloud here
let's try blacking in the flying saucer
zone
and then that might be it for now and i
will finish
inking this i have to go soon but i will
finish inking this and post it
over on the patreon post it as a
printable for people to see
so let's just make sure proof of concept
let's make sure this
blacking here is going to bring out
our letter shapes and help us see it so
we'll go in here with the marker
if there's a tiny little space the
marker can't get into i will go back to
the pen
and use that thin line but i think if
i'm real careful
the chisel tip of this water-based
marker
should should should be okay now notice
this ink is bleeding through here so
when i'm inking like this
i even put down some scrap paper to
guard my clipboard
i'm when i'm inking like this i'm only
going to use one side of the paper
when i print this as a printable over at
the copy shop up in town or
off a printer the library is opening up
um i can print this i can print it and
the ink of the printer won't run through
the copy
so then i'll use the side to do
um to do letter writing i'll write a
little note hey
thanks for the book for someone who sent
me a book or
thanks for drawing with comics camp
looking forward to the fall something
like that you know i can write a little
caption on the back
do a little doodle there and then this
is like this
this just like i said earlier having a
card like this
encourages me to send more letters
and now is a really nice time to be
sending letters i've gotten some really
nice cards in the mail recently
um and i've seen some nice artwork
people are working on
and especially for patrons who are
joining on the patreon watching this
after they're filmed and joining in
in the archived videos using the
printables
anything like that and when i send out
my graphic novels in the mail to patrons
i'll slip one of these in oh that'll be
nice it's like a
bookmark now i'm thinking this
because i did it nice and big i can
shrink down
and it should shrink down to let's see
if we take a
similar size piece of paper fold it in
half and in half
so that it's sure it's half as tall half
as wide
that will be the 50 percent size so this
this whole page will shrink down to this
size it'll say thanks it'll have these
nice tiny little details
in there and then they could i could cut
up the page so they can
open it and have a nice little note or
something so it could be an opening card
too
i haven't gotten that far and planning
it first i want to see how this
turns out and i like how this is turning
out
with the black sky look at that oh my
goodness
yes i love the the way the letters kind
of
pop out of the black night sky there and
over here remember it won't be sort of
popping out of black it'll be popping
out of
detailed leafy vegetation so it'll be a
different kind of a feel
oh this is so cool i'm glad we could
draw this together
i think this works let's just get the
rest of this night sky
in here and then we'll call it a live
draw
and you can go do your inking and i'll
do my inking i actually have to write up
to the post office again mail out some
books
and doing a special class this afternoon
we've been
every wednesday i've been doing a class
at a
local youth services center by zoom
and thanks to kimball jenkins school of
art for supporting that
making it possible it's really cool to
work with those
teenage artists so maybe i'll bring this
in and
show them this if they think that could
be useful to them they're all doing
stories and mini comics so we'll see
what they've been up to
that'll be this afternoon and tonight
i'm i'm gonna
pop back in sometime soon because i have
the um
we have to do some more coloring on the
freeman colby poster right so i'll
pop that in sometime soon and we'll
bring out the crayons and we'll do a
little more
color building there that'll be fun
let's see where do i end here i have to
find a good stopping place
i'll finish these areas right up to the
knuckles
this will keep being black in there
right up to the pencil just to make sure
that doesn't
get lost there we go all right i have to
stop oh look at rabbit's face
that's so common i think you just see
your characters with their faces on so
you don't always realize
you forgot to ink their faces
and are we missing anything oh yeah a
little bit of a star there
okay all we have to do now is finish i
think this will be fine line inking the
sun
the trees the flowers and then and the
eyeballs of course and everything
then i'll come in and erase right clean
that up
then i can scan it just like we've been
doing scan it to a black and white
version
and it can be a coloring page it can be
a printable card
however i want to use it i have a lot of
details to ink here
right
well i will do that
later
it's so hard to start some days you have
it's hard to get started you know
some days it's just so hard to stop but
i'm going to call it
pause for now thank you for drawing with
us thanks patrons
wonderful to um be drawing all summer
and i'm looking forward to
the fall 2020 season coming up over at
the patreon
and here on facebook and elsewhere um
good luck with your thanks card
good luck with your mini comics and all
your projects
and we'll see you again soon
