Speak Up: Bard’s Tale Production Part IV
September 14, 2007, filed under: Sketchbook, by LexA few more pages of word balloons and sound FX and I’ll have the first part of A Bard’s Tale complete (1/3 of the way done). And it couldn’t come any sooner–this last month has been nothing but post-production work: from scanning to clean-up to halftones to the final stage: dialogue. Too much of this stuff gets me itchin’ to be back at the drawing board again. Word balloons are fun though and this is the part where it all starts to look like a real comic!
Every cartoonist does their lettering differently, for some it’s the first stage, for others (like me), it’s last. The big change this time around is I’m using my own hand lettering. I had a font made out of my handwriting and have been plugging it into the pages. At first I was resistant to it, but the more I looked at it on the page the more it seemed to fit.
I like the flow of the balloons and lettering in these three pages. This final page was a fun experiment in how fonts can create sounds. 
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