Tag: sami

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Alex Heberling

[Image: A side-by-side comparison of a comic panel lettered digital by hand vs. lettered with a font.]

I’m trying to make this comic as thoroughly mine as I can.

I’ve been interested in doing my own lettering for The Hues, as opposed to using the font tool, which I did for Garanos.  As a parenthetical, I hand letter Alex’s Guide, but that’s mostly because it’s all natural media, apart from the coloring.  I’ve never properly “learned” lettering in the classical sense, and a majority of searching for a tutorial led to hand lettering with pen and paper.

However, this three part series on Making Comics was really helpful getting me started in digital hand lettering!  Above are my results, compared to the same panel lettered with the type tool and my old technique for making word balloons.  On the left, the balloons are drawn with vectors, and on the right, they’re drawn freehand with the lasso tool.

I may look back at these letters in a year and cringe at how they look, but I’m really happy with how it changes the page, especially with the nicer word bubbles.

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Alex Heberling

[Image: Colored pencil drawing of Hue Spectrum on dark brown paper.]

I got a lot of drawing done during the slow periods at Youmacon!

Here’s a drawing of Hue Spectrum with colored pencils and sharpie on brown card stock. When I first started drawing and writing The Hues back in 1998, I did all my artwork with markers and colored pencils. 14 years and an art degree in digital media later, I feel like I’ve come full circle in drawing these characters again in their new forms with these pencils. (I seriously still have every colored pencil I’ve owned since junior high in a giant pencil box. It is awesome.)

I’m not 100% settled on what role the Hues’ uniforms will take on in the 2013 version, but I drew the girls in them anyway, just for fun. :)

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Alex Heberling

[Image: A color illustration of Hannah, redheaded and lanky, sitting with her knees to her chest and ankles crossed; Sami, brown-skinned and petite in oversized clothing, sitting cross-legged; and Andrea, chubby and auburn-haired, sitting  with her leg curled underneath her.  They look towards the viewer looking slightly uncertain.]

SAH Sitting by *alex-heberling

Sami, Hannah, and Andy are the first three girls we’re going to meet in The Hues.

I will inevitably get things like “Burger King Kids’ Club” shouted at me for my character designs for this comic, but IDGAF.  I hope that every girl will be able to see some part of themselves in my comic. :x

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Alex Heberling

[Image description: A pencil drawing of Sami, a medium-skinned girl with black hair in a ponytail, wearing lace fingerless gloves and a slip.  She is leaning on a vague wall with her hand and is halfway turned away from the viewer.]

I drew Sami again at work last night.

GUYS GUYS I have the first issue outlined. XDDDDD

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Alex Heberling

[Image description: A pencil drawing of Sami as Hue Spectrum, who wears a black and white costume with bracers, tall boots, and a skirted leotard-ish thing.]

Here’s this thing I drew today on my lunch break! The new Sami in the old school Hue Spectrum uniform. I haven’t yet decided in what capacity the uniforms will be in the new version of the Hues. I’ve got ideas for variations on the basic costume that differ from girl to girl.

Sami is from my upcoming comic series, The Hues.

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Alex Heberling

[Image description: An illustration of Samhita, an Indian-American teenager sitting with her knees bent towards her chest and her hands resting on her ankles.  She’s wearing a baggy grey hooded sweatshirt, rolled-up jeans, and heavy black boots.]

Pressure sensitivity restored! Huzzah!  And this is officially the very first, completely finished piece of Hues concept art.

I haven’t done a piece in my signature style in a VERY long time.  It feels good!  I’m not even at the place where I can decide what style I’m going to be using for the comic pages, but I may just throw caution to the wind again and do everything in this style like I did with Garanos.  If you haven’t read Garanos, you should follow this finely crafted link and read my epic fantasy comic: http://www.garanos.com

LINES ARE FOR CHUMPS, HMMPH!