Page 138 - part 3

Nancy is not allowed to guess any more... *rofl*



(this is the last third of page 138, but because I had one page double this one still has the wrong page number underneath, but it really IS page 138.. :-D)

Page 138 - part 2

Page 138 - part 1

.. of 3.
tomorrow part 2 ;-)

Page 137!!

(and 138 in a way, since they turned out to be the same page :-D)

Page 136!!!

Yes Ron, there is an IKEA according to google.. :-D
(sorry for the bright green, but any other RGB green became too dark when turned to CMYK)

Page 135!!

I found out yesterday that page 137 and 138 are the same, so the whole story is not 142 pages long, but only 141... so here is the six-before-last page!

Page 134!!!

I am so stuck..

..it's just not pretty any more. Don't know how I was able to do 6 pages a day on day 1 and 2 because I can barely do one the last few days. And yesterday I only edited one.. could it be that we are in week 2 of NaNo? :-s

Page 133!!

Fully inked and all!!

But a link again because a thumbnail may give away the story.
click here:

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipteY4BprqAqT5AE0qvSL6cAP_ETF3AfVsGVRugsodi0enihP5UruxMZfBRRXzuslNBFcXvJuiuhGfx9FT_Gkm9qnm_VLGnbb1r5H1bRrR2SrxAF6Rp83KI9i4MV9DDk0GjCHGQVAvvQk/s800/nano09-blog133kl.jpg

Some more examples I am proud of:

Here are pages 9 and 29:





It keeps taking more and more time to edit and ink a page though... I went down from 6 pages a day to 4 already, but the honest thing to do would be to count 2 pages as 2k of words a day (compared to the NaNoWriMo participants that are writing a 50,000 word novel this month) but that way I will reach 50K already when I have only done 60 pages and I want to do at least 100 (3 pages a day), preferably 120 (4 pages a day) and ideally 142 (6 pages a day)... but I am already behind on the 4 pages-a-day quota...

Page 132 again but now fully inked!

Page 132!!!

I felt so bad about working on the wrong page, I did my best to get page 132 ready for you as well. It's edited but only partially coloured (since I haven't solved the CMYK problem yet and I still feel ill), but at least this way you guys can read it already :-)

RGB vs. CMYK... help!!

Anyone have any knowledge about this? I am working in RGB when I should be working in CMYK apparently, because the result is meant for print. A lot of the CMYK colours are a lot less bright though.. so I may have to do the 20 pages I did so far over..

I know how to change the file I am working on to CMYK, but I don't know how to change my swatches and stuff in Photoshop. They do have a whole bunch of pantone swatches to choose from which I think has to do with printing as well, but I wouldn't know which Pantone set to pick..

So if you know anything about this please help! I have felt ill all night and day today so I have hardly worked on my NaNo today... so that's a whole day behind and I don't know how to proceed with this CMYK problem anyway... :-\

HELP!

Grandma's dress - part 2

Thank you for using the word 'old-fashioned', guys (girls) since that was what I was looking for. The flower dress has the emphasise the fact that grandma is a grandma.. a ninja grandma with a fighting spirit, but still a grandma.
Plus I do like it if she is wearing a dark outfit to fit with her ninja-ishness.

So I feel mostly for this one:


Question is: is it clear that this is a flower dress? Or does it just look like something unclear when you don't know it's supposed to be a flowerdress?

I worked really hard...

.. to get page 131 up for you (and in colour) and now I find out I had already posted that one... *AARGH*

Anyway, here are 130 and 131 in colour (except for grandma, since I hadn't decided about her dress yet)

Grandma's dress?? help!

I can't decide what colour to do grandma's clothing. She is a ninja so I thought she would be in black, but that gives me a world of hurt inking it in if I still want the arms to show.

So I was in the Dutch NaNo chat yesterday, where Lenihan gave me the marvellous idea to give her a flower dress, which will make her look more grand-motherish, despite her ninja outfit.

So I made a few pattern stamps myself, and I would like your opinion. Which grandma do you like best? The darker patterns are more 'ninja' suitable, but the lighter ones show the arms better. I think the Delft Blue pattern is hilarious but that may be too Dutch. Pattern nr 5 I will need to adapt if I choose it because it shows a too obvious pattern-rim (hope that is the right word) and that may proof to be quiet a challenge..

The other MC's are: bright red for me, grey for Zowie en light grey (metal) en brown (wood) for Shovel and Picky. The dwarfs are purple.

Here are grandma's possible dresses:
1

2

3

4

5

6

7


EDITED TO ADD: Apparently it wasn't Lenihan, or only Lenihan that gave me the grandma-flower-dress idea, but I owe my thanks first and foremost to BrokenWings for it! So thank you BW, and sorry I got confused about who said what in chat! :-D

What a SHOOTload of work!!

I have started editing and inking and I have to do 5 to 6 pages which takes me 5 to 6 hours.. no kidding!!!
But it's day 2 and I have done my 12 pages... pfffft. Hope I can keep this up.

But I donlt know when I will get to the last 11 that you all still have coming. I'll try to sneak one in every couple of days so that I can at least post the first draft for you, but I am not promising anything... :-\

In the meantime I will try to post inked pages regularly so you can see what they look like!

Here is one:


(use the magnifying glass! It's 900 px wide :-))