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PRO TIP: Pencils (generally) don't have to be super-clean, so when your hands have not been on the best of speaking terms with your brain, go with pencils. Inks are less forgiving of shaky hands syndrome. Lettering is definitely a no-fly zone until things get back to normal.

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Juan Ruvalcaba

Do you follow Don Simpson on Facebook? His lettering is some of the best in the biz, but I saw he's recently been pre-printing his commission art boards with his comic logos and they looks really good and doesn't seem to clash or look out of place with the commissioned artwork. I love your handlettering, I can only imagine how many times you've ruled out that title.

Evan Dorkin

I'm not on Facebook and, without getting into it, I'm not much of fan of Don Simpson as a cartoonist or as a person. I liked Border Worlds and early Megaton Man back in the day, and from what I recall he is indeed a very talented letterer (which I don't believe myself to be, at least not in a classic, professional sense). I think pre-printing logos on commissions is perfectly fine, it's not something I want to do. I'm a stickler and my OCD says "no" to that, I like as much original art on a piece of commissioned original art as possible. I charged an extra $75 to draw the logo and circle figures/dialog, at least it calls itself and I know what has to go there. it's the main image that I get stuck figuring out. Anyway, speaking of lettering, I am planning to post some scans of the lettering I did for a One Punch Goldberg, which was all done separately from the illustration boards. It's probably the best sustained lettering I ever did because I was being extra cautious and careful, working on it separately caused the OCD to kick in even harder than usual.