captain gore

here's my take on cobra's major bludd:

zipatone

ever since i read wizard's "how to draw: advanced techniques" comic, i have been curious about using something called zipatone, a page of tiny, equidistant dots that you can cut into shapes to simulate gray shades in 2-tone comics. in the old days, i guess they were forced to use this stuff, but some people still do because it has a cool effect.

today i realized that i could do it the easy way by making my own digital page of zipatone dots in photoshop.

a panel!

this is not an official panel, just a practice run. i made this to test out some things i've never bothered to teach myself about real-life comic book making. most of the comic strips i've made in the past have used tiny little panels with speech bubbles worked right into the inked art, leaving only enough room for a short exclamation. i needed this experiment to figure out how much space i'd need to leave for a little bit of real dialogue.


not bad for my very first digitally lettered panel, i think.

(these characters are-based-on/are hawk and duke.)