Ben Benderさんのイラストまとめ

Seeing the handful of these images I've finished all lying together here on my desk, I honestly just love seeing them in their raw form. (I also want to work on my scanning process a bit to try and capture some things I feel are missing from the scanned images)

Playing around with subtle changes. It's killing me. I'm trying to think end-product, too. I always want to work toward a planned big picture. That way even if I decide to pivot, I have to make the same adjustments to everything. But that requires some stages I'm not ready for.

Around the Tree

Got to hang out with my niece and nephew today, plus some good chat time with one of my brothers. It was a good day. Didn't get a lot done (yet), but knocked this out while the kiddos were all playing.

Trying out the white lettering.

Crawler

Also, added some dialogue. Figuring out if it's a silent comic. I like folks filling in the narrative on their own. Providing a snapshot of dialogue cuts down on the available possibilities. But it also provides at least a little context so folks aren't completely lost.

@hesstoons Hahaha! Ah, sorry, brother. After seeing a couple more, I'm definitely leaning toward black and white. (Especially after I clean up my scanning process to get them a little more uniform)

Potentially with dialogue.

Seeing a couple of them together has me leaning more toward leaving these black and white. I do really love the glowing eyes effect, so I'm gonna play with how to get something I like using the ink/paint.

Man! I'm so torn between the black and white vs color.

Gonna try some white ink or paint effects to see if I can get a glow effect around the eyes I might like.

Added some word balloons. I'm still figuring out if it's a silent comic.

Did a little lunchtime coloring pass on that Kid piece. Figuring out and playing around with how I might combine the traditional ink and wash with digital coloring, and exactly how much of that I might want to do. I'm a sucker for black and white art, so we'll see where we land.

But I also really like adding depth to panels. I guess I just need to find more places to add little “Wattersonian” backgrounds to panels/pages.