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Today I’ve started a personal project that mix two big passions of mine: art and Coffee. I’ll visit some great Coffeehouses here in Curitiba (Brazil), drawing people and situations, painting just with coffee. 

In the next posts I’ll give more details about that.

Below, I’m having a great time in “Exprèx Caffé” - Curitiba( no, I was not sleeping in this picture… ).

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Some people ask me how does the process of creating comic strips, so I decided to post more or less how I do it.
 

Phase 1 – Argument

First comes the argument, which is scribbled without worrying about the drawing and definitive text. At this phase, I usually let things flow freely, scribbling an idea after the other, even if all of them are bad, without criticizing too much. After that I read all of them calmly, and sometimes two or three ideas of plot end up in one comic strip, or none… only opening up the way for a better plot, which becomes a definitive comic strip.   

Phase 2 – Draw

Idea created, I go to the drawing board. At this phase I define the framing, sometimes I change the characters and I also refine the texts. I draw the strips in 26X8cm.

Phase 3 – Inks

I ink the comic strips with a paint brush and Nankim. I’ve chosen this method so that, I could detach myself from the computer a little bit. After I stated working icons, I hardly ever used paper.  I could ink in vector, using Adobe Illustrator; however, work with ink makes any designer feel good. Differently from most artists I don’t ink over the original pencil draw, I use a light-table.
 
Below some pictures of the process: 

Phase 4 – Scanning, Lettering and Ballooning

This is the final phase. After scanning the comic strip, I do the lettering using Photoshop. Here I review the texts; I analyze what works and what doesn’t and define the final speeches. There are many ways of saying the same thing; therefore, I keep trying to find the one I consider the funniest or most reflexive, depending on the strip. To do the Bubbling in the past I used selections and strokes, but nowadays I use pre-drawn allons in the Illustrator. 
 
After all this is done, I put my signature/ copyright, blog URL and the comic strip is ready to be published.

 
So, this is it. I hope you have enjoyed.

Dirceu Veiga
 
You can read all of Eddie’s comic strips at Eddie’s Comic Strips Blog:
http://www.eddiesgang.com

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