This is the last thing I’ll share in my Love Me Nice spamfest. Panels featuring Claire from a comic page I drew in 2007. I was 19.
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okay I lied, this panel redeems this mess, funky-ass colors and all.
Truth time - I fucking hate the color intermission pages. I hate them so much. The colors are awful, the line work is sloppy, and the only redeeming parts about them are the scary monkey shots and the fact that I kinda drew okay backgrounds.
this was an okay panel, look mom i drew a house with a tree, slap that shit on the fridge
Oh my god! I forgot this existed!
2009. Basically, this is what Love Me Nice pages were originally gonna look like after I abandoned color. I changed my mind. Wow.
Page 98 - 2011
This is one of those pages all pages after have had to live up to AND NONE HAVE YET TO DO SO THUS FAR gonna go cry
Panel from Page 97
HATS AND BACKGROUNDS
THINGS I LEARNED HOW TO KINDA DO OKAY AFTER A YEAR AND A HALF
GLORY BE
Panels from Page 100 - 2011 March
Aaaaand this is about when I joined Tumblr and started posting work-in-progress stuff, which you can find throughout this blog. I’m still browsing for any interesting tidbits to share. I’ve accumulated so much stuff.
Panel from Page 90 - December 2010
Oh my god. The shading I used to do, all the shading that no one would ever see. My nerves were so shot by the time I stopped shading.
Panel from Page 82 - October 2010
And yeah, I forgot about the Love Me Nice tumblr. I’ll put everything there later under a special post. Whoops.
Page 72 - September 2010
I’m trying not to gag at some of the sloppy drawing here… but this page is a good example of the grayscale shading that is under the majority of screentones from chapters 3-4 and parts of 5.
This is also a good example of why I don’t do it anymore — I would spend AGES shading pages only for all of the detail to dissapear when converting everything to screentones/halftones/dots. So now I have all these layers with details that no one has ever seen. Bluh!
Panel from Page 61 - June 2010
For chapters 3-4 and parts of 5, I was doing this thing where I’d have textured gray flats underneath the screentone/halftone/dots layer and would adjust the transparencies. I ended abandoning this because it looked “dirty” and it bogged down my thick lines — but pretty much all of these pages have a shaded grayscale layer.
Panel from Page 38 - February 2010
Damn lil’ Claire, you had a big head…
… damn, Debbie, your eyes are fuckin’ scary in retrospect.
Panel from Page 16 - November 2009
Converted the tones to flat grays for this one.
Page 11 - Oct 2009
It occured to me that I started drawing Love Me Nice when I was still a hermit, so I never really shared a lot of details of the early pages. I’ve come a long way since Oct 2009, but there’s still a lot of little things I’m proud of, so I thought I’d share them.
