A Zen Tale - P2 "pencils"

Sorry to say, I am behind schedule at this point.  I was trying to finish a page a week, but the page few pages have been much more complex and involved that I thought they were going to be.  I am working hard on page 4 and I think you will really like it, but it's going to take a few more days to complete.

In the meantime, I wanted to share with you some of my process.  Here are my "pencils" for page 2.  I put pencils in quotes, because I've been working 100% digitally for the past few comics.  Instead of pencils, I usually call them roughs.  Some are rougher than others.

Usually, in Manga Studio they are blue line, but when I exported them, they came out grayscale.

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A Zen Tale - Page 3

Well, I wasn't sure I was going to get this one done on time, but here it is! Page 3 of "I Bring Nothing!"

I'm really enjoying doing this story, I hope you are enjoying it also.

Let me know what you think.

Thanks!

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A Zen Tale - Page 2

Here is page 2 of "I Bring Nothing", which is an adaptation of a traditional Zen story.  At this time, I don't know how long this story will be, but I'll continue to post pages as I finish them.  Thank you for your patience.

This page was quite a challenge to put together.  Halfway through, I had to change direction with the "coloring" of the page.  Overall, I'm pleased with the result.  I hope you are too!

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A Zen Tale - Page 1

This is something I've wanted to do for a very long time.  This is an experiment in many ways.  It's the longest piece I've attempted to date, I'm trying new ways of producing the pages and I haven't settled on one method yet, so I'm a little apprehensive. 

I've been using Manga Studio and have started to explore tones.  They look great on the screen, but don't always print the way they look on my monitor.  I tried printing grays in Manga Studio, but again, they didn't print well.  I may switch to coloring in Photoshop, which will set me back a bit. 

This is a Zen Story I call "I Bring Nothing".  I hope you enjoy it. 

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When do I get mine?

I've been working on a longer piece, which I hope to start sharing soon, when this conversation happened.  

At first I didn't think it was a "comic", but as I wrote about that day in my journal, it hit me, "Oh I need to make this into a comic!"  So, I did.  This is a related to last week's comic, "Righteous Anger". 

I'm a little concerned that it might be too much of "inside joke".  I hope you enjoy it. 

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