I’ve seen the reports, but it just isn’t true. I am, very much alive.
Okay, so there haven’t been any reports, but with such a long hiatus since the last posting of comics, even the strongest of fans would start to wonder, “What happened to Resonance Men?”
There had been updates quite often because I was trying to win a contest, and what I did was blow through my buffer to pump content out for that thing. I wanted to give you all a look into the process that I’m undertaking to see this project to completion!
1.) Writing and thumbnails
This is the stage I’m currently at now. My plan is to write the script for each chapter. When I finish writing the script, I go through and do what we call “thumbnails” which are just tiny little sketches that rough out what each page will look like.
By going ahead and laying out each chapter, I’m able to see and fix things like pacing, gaps in the story, character development and action.
The thumbnails for chapter two are complete. I just finished up the latest draft of chapter three tonight (I’d thumbnailed my last version, but it had some of the aforementioned problems, so I fixed those in the script) and I’m ready to go through and do the thumbnails for it this week.
I then plan on doing the same process for Chapters 4 and 5. Script, then thumbnail.
This will give me the full and complete vision of the rest of this book.
2. Penciling and inking
After I finish thumbnailing every chapter, I’m going to beginning going through and making larger sketches of each page. This will focus more on the faces and details of each panel.
I’ve been using some scaled templates I made for a 6×9 book to give me a feel for how everything will look on the page. After a page is penciled, I will scan it in for inking in Manga Studio.
This part will be a bit more of a mashup of tasks. The key here is that I can do my penciling anywhere, but I can only ink at home. There will be some finesse to the plan, but I think I can get it together.
Hopefully I’ll be able to knock out the penciling/inking for the rest of the book before starting the next segment, but we’ll see how long it takes.
3. Flatting and coloring
Flatting is basically putting down all of the base layers of color in your drawings. I do this portion in Photoshop and I stay there to do the rest of the coloring and effects as well.
Coloring to me is all about the light and shadow and any effects. The reason I would love to finish all of the inking first is that once I get to the coloring portion, the pages are finished and everyone can read them (especially Patrons) as I finish them.
This would mean that I could have a constant flow with everything planned out ahead of me, and that’s where I want to be.
At this point, Patrons would be getting updates before they post online because they would see them as they were produced. (Just saying! :D)
In conclusion…
Resonance Men is still in production. The only thing that has slowed is the actual pushing pages onto the internet, but the idea is to get to a point where I can just set it all up and go.
If you have any questions, let me know in the comments!