CoP3: Tory Chums Strips Revised

In the past week I've worked to revise the Tory Chums strips I have created over the past few months. I began by making reworking the dialogue to make it more relevant to the Establishment, this will help reinforce the synthesis between my dissertation and practical work.

After this redrew my stripes, this time in pencil by hand rather than tracing them digitally as I had done originally. This allowed for the characters to be more fluid in design, and less constrained. After this the pieces were inked using my inking nibs and scanned into photoshop.

Before I went any further however, I played around with Kyle T Webster brushes. Matt spoke to him in a Big Heads talk (seen here) and I was eager to experiment with some of his brushes.

With little in the way of finances I have no way of replenishing the watercolours I am low in. So despite wanting to stay away from digital colours for my final piece, I decided to colour in with digital watercolour pens. The use of watercolour was to evoke similarities with Bell's cartoons, whilst still keeping a unique feel to the pieces.

I chose Times New Roman as the typeface for the contextual dialogue before each strip as it is trusted and evokes a sense of the upperclass, which I feel the work needs, with it's subject being the Conservative party.

Here are the process pieces from pencils to inks, to colours, to dialogue;



And finally, the completed work;




Additional. I chose to remove 'Halloween' piece as I didn't think it worked the best within the book. The extra two pages would also upset the multiple of four page factor when I came to print.