Brendan-Storr created a comic book production process that involved drawing pages with pencil and then inking them with sharpies, scanning them into Photoshop, coloring the pages digitally using tools like the paint bucket and quick selection tools, and adding speech bubbles and text using custom shapes, text effects like strokes, and adjusting the size and boldness of the bubbles and text. The process was challenging due to issues with scanning, finding the right art tools, and fitting text into speech bubbles precisely. Overall, Brendan-Storr improved their skills and produced more pages than their previous comic book project.

1. Production Reflection
Brendan-Storr

2. Process
• Firstly, I have drawn it on paper.
Then I brought some black
sharpies and used them to draw
on the pencil lines. I later on
scanned this and e-mailed it to
myself. I opened Photoshop and
coloured it in, using the paint
bucket tool and used the quick
selection tool on some parts of
it when I was colouring. Good so
far, though it was a bloody
nightmare getting a simple thing
like a sharpie! Seriously, I had to
walk out of college to buy the
things at Tesco’s…escorted!?
Both that, and I messed up in
the scanning process and had a
hard time opening this up in
Photoshop. Christ, everything
simple is hard to do these days…

3. Process
• Soon after, I used the brush tool is
draw the eye vine lines since the
crayon didn’t come out right when it
was scanned. Both that and it was
faded. I then decided to put text on to
finish off. I started with the title,
‘Dysfunction’, with just simple text,
coloured it green, and then made a
‘stroke’ effect to make it stand out
against the black background. Then I
added the ‘#1’ text, added a ‘stroke’
and then used ‘bevel and emboss’ to
make it bolder. I then added minor text
to tell people who made this. This has
been a fantastic cover to work on.
Made it very effective and digitally
coloured. Still, the scanning process
and the ‘e-mail to myself’ might still be
a problem to go through, and might
slow me down on finishing this in three
weeks.

4. Process
• This is one of the first three pages
I have done. I have drawn it on a
piece of paper and then drawn
the lines over with a sharpie. I
scanned it in and began colouring
it using Photoshop tools, like paint
bucket and quick selection tool,
plus used a pencil line tool or a
brush tool for some bits of
unnoticed lines I forgot to draw
over. I’m pleased with the colours
on Photoshop so far, but I’m going
over ‘buyer’s remorse’. The
sharpies I brought were to thick
for small details like the boy’s
freckles and a few over things. I
almost ruined this for me. The
other two pages are better than
this one however, thanks to my
Sister’s pens I borrowed from her.

5. Process
This is the finished version from
slide 4. This is a slight
improvement, but is a
disappointing page to make,
because of the pen lines. As I
stated, next pages after this are
superiorly better.
Tip: get a thinner sharpie.

6. Process
• This is a finished page I have just
done. I have discussed colouring in
the previous slide. Just to recap, I
used paint bucket tool and quick
selection for a piece of the picture
for colouring. I even used to paint
bucket tool to make the pen lines
more bolder. Now to discuss the
speech bubbles. There is a custom
shape tool, where you find a
variety of shapes that are not
squares or circles. I places a
speech bubble over the drawing,
coloured it white with a black bold
line, and added text to it. This is
my favourite page so far, for the
colours, and the punch line of the
comedy sketch here. The text for
the speech bubbles are really
tricky to do though. You have to
work really hard to make them fit
properly.

7. Process
• Drawn it on paper, used a sharpie
on the pencil lines, scanned it
onto the computer, used
Photoshop for colouring, and
then used the custom shape tool
for speech bubbles. This is getting
to be better than my last comics
FMP, because the pages has a bit
more story than the pages I done
in FMP 1. Also, I learned a bit
more skills to make them look
good, I discovered a range of
speech bubbles to select and at
this rate, I might make two to
three more pages than I ever did,
just figure out of to squeeze in the
evaluation in. I must remind
myself to make some pages at
home. The most difficult thing to
do is still fitting the text into the
bubbles, because you would have
to mess around with the size of
the texts and bubbles, plus make
the lines of the bubbles bolder. It’s
not an easy task to do.

8. Process
These are the last few pages in have
done this week. Not much to tell
since most of it is the same as how I
explained them in the previous
slides, which is scanning them, using
a paint bucket to colour them and
using shapes and text ti make the
speech bubbles. However, I used the
effects on text that are ‘sound effect’
text. These effects involve ‘Stroke’,
‘drop shadow’, and many others like
‘inner glow’ or ‘emboss’. I even used
some of those effects on some of the
drawing like the grim reapers eyes. I
even used the quick selection tool for
the dark shades for Mina in page five
(again, the one with the grim
reaper). I have made more pages
than in my first FMP and I can say, I
am very proud of my work.