Select, Copy/Paste & Setting Or I'm Getting the Hang of This?

I'm learning how to select and make a character smaller in proportion to a larger character! 

In this scene when Yanina and Peter are on their first lunch date. 

Note I have some edit reminders in dark pink. Here is the original. 

 And on the right-hand, is Yanina made smaller. Peter should be bigger as he's a former college football player. But now that I've made him bigger from the neck up, he should also have bigger arms that match.

There you go, Peter with your bigger arms! And here I fixed Yanina's hands and made her hair a little fluffier in the next panel.

I also had back notes to keep my (speech and) thought bubbles separated, which I took care of.

 Here is the original page.

 Here's the original fourth panel. Also realized that Peter is out-of-proportion and he isn't even meant to be chibi(Means the super-deformed and cute version of a character in manga and anime)! At least not in this scene!

Remember I mentioned making Yanina smaller in proportion to Peter? Well, I needed to do so in the fourth panel on the right-hand bottom of the page. Yanina not only had to be smaller and lower, but she needed to move her chair back from the table as she's laughing at Peter's story. 

 Here I moved her AWAY after Selecting and Dragging her image. You'll notice it also cut Peter's thought bubble. I'll get back to that. Not only do I need to Select/Drag Yanina's image, I tidy my messy penwork and fix other issues with the character's appearance. Peter also gets a do-over! And I fix his goatee, making it sparse(actually part of my notes!) as he's just growing it out. He will sport stubble, sparse goatee, full goatee, and be clean-shaven throughout the series.

And here is the final page. Thanks for your patience, Dear Readers.

The Speech Bubble Dilemma

I posted this on the Insta(handdrawnbycarmenjr) and decided to elaborate here on the blog. 

The following slides show me attempting shape and speech bubble templates. There will be more to talk about as I continue to work on this. 

This is before I created the line for the text bubble.

 

Yanina thinking: Is he flirting with me? Well, I'm just as bad.

The first slides show full panel while 2nd slides show zoom-in of MS Paint speech bubble template used

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Here I created a line for a speech balloon within MS Paint

I won't be cleaning up the dialogue in the initial digital clean-up for TWO REASONS: I created my own soft of distinct to this comic. However, I will be using other graphic software speech bubble templates. More on that in the next post...