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Page 20: Inkwashed

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Waldgrave and The Preacher notice and confront Ishmael and Leland.

And thus does everything start to go wrong.

Another page that the scanner didn't wanna deal with; it never seems to wanna capture the black areas, just makes them all splotchy and textured.

Maybe if I start adding Gouache? They say that's supposed to reproduce really well...

Anyway, PAGE 20 is done! 2 more pages to go...till isssue one is complete.

Oh well, at least it FEELS like I'm finishing something.

Edit:

Full first issue with lettering and print-quality art available as a PDF download here: [link]

EDIT!

Now available for a buck on SCRIBD: [link]

Somewhat lower quality but it still looks darn good, and it's cheaper!

Take a look, won't you?
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Looking at the page, I don't see anything wrong with the black areas..

But some ideas for solving your problem are:

1. If it's a texture thing, you may want to start using illustration board instead of watercolor paper.. Less texture..

2. also, you might want to start with a prelim of paynes gray( acrylic ) for your dark areas, and then paint black on top of them. Remember that black is 100 percent of all color so it may just be a problem of needing a "richer black".

3. add some paynes gray to your black mixture, in fact you might want to add some pthalo blue also, and switch to acrylics- they scan pretty well.

4. also adjust your levels a bit once you've scanned the image. Try a slight gaussian blur, and then add some Noise to the image.. I do this with a lot of my final illustrations that I send for print.