Do not make the angels weep by Elcet

Digital Comics • Comics/Cartoons • posted on Nov 12, 2007

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I made this single-page comic tale in 2002 during a draft stage at the Duperre Applied Art School. I drew it with a Rotring 0.2mm Rapidograph on layout paper. I vectorized it with Adobe Streamline to add a flat color in Adobe Illustrator 8. It was published in 2004 in Le Grand Livre d’Illustrator (The Big Illustrator Book, site http://www.le-grand-livre-illustrator.com, French only). For this upload I translated the balloons. BUT HERE PLEASE I NEED YOUR HELP. I am now undertaking a big comic project, the balloons of which will be made with the same peculiar font that I drew myself. Today this is not a real font, but simple letter shapes. I will translate these individual drawings into the peculiar software element that a font is, nevertheless for me it is not quite simple. So I prefer to do that only with the definitive drawing of each letter, otherwise I need to reconstruct the font and many troubles can occur with older comic page files using the first version of the font. Therefore please concentrate your comments about the design and legibility of each letter: are they good, or do some of them have to be modified to allow a better result? And in which direction? Some comic professionals said me thet the I, N, M… are too much curved, but others said that all letters are OK and everything is easy to read. What do you think? All comments will be welcome!

Comments (12)

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RBlue

4:41PM | Mon, 12 November 2007

Rapidograph, wow haven't used one of those since mid 1980's. Font creation was one of those old world comic strip functions I used to do regualarly. I guess PCs have made me lazy. In this case, the white outlines need to be a touch wider. Maybe 2 or 3 pixels wider. It will make the words easier to identify. The font style looks good and the transparent overlay of them is a classic style which requires greater scene considerations. The letter "O" looks to stand alone and have no kindred characters like the curved portions of "S", "P" and "R" letters. (Not to mention numbers) Of course there is not enough font examples here to make that assurtion stick formidiably. Perhaps as more example appear...

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2Loose2Trek

7:19PM | Mon, 12 November 2007

I became totally engrossed in this comic as I was reading. I have no technical criticisms to make as I am so impressed with the result. Additionally, I love the fonts as they are very easy to read. This comic is considerably more than the sum of its parts -- a true gestalt. Well done!

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ezuk

11:26PM | Mon, 12 November 2007

I found the font easy to read on the whole except for the letter 'Q' (which looks like an 'O' to me) and the 'G,' which looks a little like a '6' when the letters are small. I was also surprised that the letter 'V' dipped so low. In panel 10 I thought the break in the 'O' was distracting, but the letter looked fine in all the other panels. Overall, I thought that the font looked unique and would work well with a few tweaks. And I liked the colouring!

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Milouv

12:45AM | Tue, 13 November 2007

C'est avec bonheur que je constate tes dons, quoique tu en dises, pour le dessin de BD. Tu es dessinateur et tu as certainement des scénarii qui ne demandent qu'à fonctionner. A quand la sortie d'une BD signée Elcet ?

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