A Zen Tale - Page 6

I've had to attend to a few other things as well as deal with some distractions.  Squirrel! 

Sorry.

Here is page 6 of "I Bring Nothing!"  We are now getting into the meat of the story.  Only two pages left!


This is the longest piece I've done so far and it's been quite an experience!

Thanks for following along!

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A Zen Tale - Page 5

Whew!  It seems like each page takes more to do than the last one.  It's been a busy week, but here is page 5 of "I Bring Nothing!"   I'm hoping that the next couple of pages will be a bit easier. 

I hope you're enjoying this comic as much as I'm enjoying creating it.

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A Zen Tale - Page 4

Well, better late than never!  Also, Good things are worth waiting for. 

This project has been more involved than I anticipated.  But it also has been more rewarding. 

Here is page 4 of "I Bring Nothing". 

I'm going to get page 5 out as soon as I can.  I hoping things will speed up over the next few pages.

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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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