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...

From the Twitterverse - Musings

I love The Twilight Zone, but I'm keen on the episodes written by the man himself, Rod Serling, whose dialogue is sharp without being cynical, his tone sentimental and hopeful without being schmaltzy, and who lent a poetic dynamism to his characters' words. 

Procrastinating is my Kryptonite

I know I may seem incredibly productive, but do you know what I've been doing instead of writing my cat fantasy about my warlock cat and warrior mate? 

I've been making word lists of all the Sunday funnies that influenced my cartooning, did brief descriptions of three monsters from the current cat fantasy which falls more into Sword&Sorcery with all its evil beings, fighting, and spellbinding magic, and wrote a short dialogue scene which was the continuation from a previous comic scene drafted. 

All to avoid writing. *Sigh*