Artemis Draws

I have actually finished my very first comic-short story! 10 pages in total, a good length for a short story.  Very satisfying, although I daresay I may have rushed in inking the last page a little, as I was already getting a little bored of the story (and the style). I must say the Hunt 102 nib was a trial to use, giving erratic performance the whole way… it seemed to work better with diluted ink, and I had to clean it every 10-15 minutes to ensure that the pen did not gunk up and scratch too badly. Still, I have a lot of shoddy hatching work in the comic that can be blamed on the Hunt 102 nib. I need to see if the Gillot nibs are any better and a trip to Cornelissen’s is long overdue. I finished the last page while listening to Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen over and over on the record player. I may well have to go back to rework the script as well as the dialogue, and tidy up the scanned images a little, and maybe even re-scan the first three pages in the same way I did all the rest (i.e stitching a single A3 page from two A4 scans)…. heaven knows, it”ll make it all a bit tidier and more uniform.

But does it all wash and hang together?