{"id":1933,"date":"2010-01-09T17:16:12","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T21:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1933"},"modified":"2010-11-18T10:03:43","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T14:03:43","slug":"count-of-monte-cristo-finished-inks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1933","title":{"rendered":"Count of Monte Cristo: Finished Inks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These sample pages for <em>The Count of Monte Cristo<\/em> are still coming along, albeit somewhat slowly.\u00a0 One thing I really like about small projects like this five-pager is that they give me the opportunity to try out new process tricks that I&#8217;d not really be willing to commit to for a bigger project without some testing.\u00a0 In this case, since my &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1911\" target=\"_blank\">roughs<\/a>&#8221; were actually pretty tight, what I wound up doing was: changing the roughs to non-photo blue (~15% cyan), resizing the pages to 10 x 13.5 inches, and setting them up as a PDF.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I then trimmed down some big sheets of 500 series Strathmore bristol (which is what I usually work on) and took the sheets and the PDF to my local FedEx\/Kinkos.\u00a0 I suspect that most Kinkos folk would balk at this sort of thing, but luckily I know one of the managers at my local shop and he&#8217;s used to (and surprisingly accommodating of) the oddball jobs like this that I often send their way.<\/p>\n<p>So, they ran the Strathmore board through the color copier and printed my roughs on them in NP blue.\u00a0 You can see it here beneath the ink:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"comc_blue_sample\" href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/01\/comc_blue_sample.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-1934 centered\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/01\/comc_blue_sample.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"comc_blue_sample\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This worked out really well, actually, and I was able to reduce the penciling stage to just doing some pretty quick tightening up of things.\u00a0 I made the prison look more like the real Chateau d&#8217;if&#8211;although I really exaggerated the rocky island it&#8217;s on because I wanted to emphasize the falling scene.\u00a0 Other than that, there weren&#8217;t really a whole lot of major, major changes.\u00a0 Anyway, here&#8217;re the inks.\u00a0 Next stop: color!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"count_ink_01\" href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/01\/count_ink_01.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-1935 centered\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/01\/count_ink_01.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"count_ink_01\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"count_ink_02\" 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src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/01\/count_ink_04.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"count_ink_04\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"count_ink_05\" href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/01\/count_ink_05.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-1939 centered\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/01\/count_ink_05.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"count_ink_05\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/benzilla.storenvy.com\/products\/38200-5-page-count-of-monte-cristo-story\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2522\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?attachment_id=2522\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/10\/socialNetworkIcons_storenvySM.png\" data-orig-size=\"32,38\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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height=\"38\" \/><\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #99ccff;\">The original art for this is for sale <a href=\"http:\/\/benzilla.storenvy.com\/products\/38200-5-page-count-of-monte-cristo-story\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These sample pages for The Count of Monte Cristo are still coming along, albeit somewhat slowly.\u00a0 One thing I really like about small projects like this five-pager is that they give me the opportunity to try out new process tricks that I&#8217;d not really be willing to commit to for a bigger project without some &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=1933\">Continue 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