A bit of behind the scenes (Patreon)

So here's what's happening behind the scenes with Always Human. I hope this will be interesting to you, if you have any questions feel free to ask :)

I was initially asked to provide the image files with the speech bubbles separate, in CMYK colour format (which was a challenge given how much I use bright blue in Always Human!)

I decided to take this opportunity to update the art a bit.

The art updates have mostly been about keeping the face proportions consistent

Original, RGB

Updated, CMYK, smaller face

Other art updates have been about keeping the head-to-rest-of-body proportions semi consistent. This varied a lot through the comic and while sometimes it was for effect/chibi/comedy etc. a lot of the time it was unintentional and having larger heads made a serious moment feel less serious.

Original, RGB

Updated, CMYK, less cutesy proprtions

Converting the colours to CMYK loses so much :( I tried to keep as much contrast in the colours as possible, but still, I wasn't thinking about print when I coloured the comic and it really shows.

The other thing that's happening behind the scenes is taking the separated panels and speech bubbles, and jigsawing them into pages. Little Bee Books has completed the first draft of the book formatting, and I'm currently going through and making suggestions for how I think the paneling could flow better

eg. I was sent this

and I replied back with