Lettering in Practice

All the little x's mean that area is to be inked in swaths of black. Some of the panels just have lines running through them that stands for much the same, but those are recent additions once I thought it over.

It was a pain, in all honesty. Doesn't help that I don't own a t-square, a drawing board that can stay still, nor a lettering guide of any decent quality (it's a little slip of plastic covered with tape and full of holes my friend and I made based on what Todd Klein suggests for Alvin Lettering Guide users on his website). It doesn't help that my pen (a Rotring Art Pen (F)) kept railroading more than putting ink on the page. Eugh. There was probably some leftover oils and debris in the thing from the manufacturing process that I never cleaned out yet. It works fine now after a good cleaning. My main gripe with the pen is that it makes a very thick line, the "F" of this pen is more like a 0.6-0.8 on the standard fineliner. I should find way to get the pen to achieve a thinner line. I should see if the fountain pen stations in National Bookstore do basic nib grinding...

By the time I've posted this, most of these have already been inked or partially inked. It'll be the first time I'll ink comic pages with a brush rather than just my usual practice in inking and other things. I also did a few things with the lettering. I slanted the boxes, somewhat. Made the actual letters more cramped and dirty than I usually do in my practice sessions.