Late again...

Well, I'm late in posting again. I thought I'd be a better blogger than this but I'm pretty poor at it. Just don't feel like posting sometimes or I'm busy doing something else. Still I should at least continue with the posting of the Star Wars comics if nothing else. So without further delay here are six more pages of issue number one. I have been able to obtain issues 6 and 7 which for some reason I was missing from my collection. I distinctly remember having them at one time but somehow they ended up disappearing. I will probably run across them some where along the line but at least, for now, will be a ble to scan the issues and have them on CD. 

Normally I would post just six pages but since there were only three left to do  I decided to go ahead and post the rest of Issue one now instesd of next time. I find it amusing that Luke looks nothing whatsoever like Mark Hamill. In fact, in the comic version he looks older than he is supposed to be. 

My favorite panel has to be the one of Luke looking so angry and he certainly isn't young looking. Didn't they have any photos from the movie to work from? The artists could have at least TRIED to make Luke resemble Mark Hamill. 

I've been working on the paper doll of Leia featuring costumes from the Star Wars comics. I'm coloring her as I go along. I am tracing over her in Photoshop which is a lot easier than rescanning her again. It takes more time since I don't have a stylus and use the mouse to draw with but I've gotten pretty good at it.  I want to add a different border. I wasn't happy with the old one and I think I'll add the reference photos along side each outfit both in the color version and the black and white rendition. 

I did change her face a little; I like the newer version better. This set is going to take me a little while to do. I hate to admit it but my eyesight isn't what it used to be. I DESPERATELY need a new pair of glassed but don't have the funds to afford it at the moment. I'm glad for Photoshop because I don't need a magnifying glass in order to do features like eyes and mouths. I have to darken her and i don't dare try to do that with a pen like I used to, I simply can't see the lines anhy more. With Photoshop I can trace the lines without worrying that I'm going to ruin her features and have to start all over again.

6/22/1952

Here's another Boots paper doll.

Well so long for now...

Til next time....

                                                            ALOHA!!

A LONG TIME AGO....

It's June already and the year is half gone. Before you know it it'll be December once again. Is it warming up where you are? Here in the desert it's already reached triple digits. Believe me, I do not look forward to the summers here. One of these days I'm going to move to Hawaii where it is so much cooler. Humid maybe but at least they have the trade winds blowing to keep it cooler. 

In my posting yesterday I said I was scanning my Star Wars comics and would post the entire run here on my blog. I wasn't sure if any of the issues were ready to be uploaded but having looked over my scans discovered, much to my delight, that a few of the issues are ready to be shared. I did have to fool with the brightness/contrast a little as the scans were a little faded. I tried to get as close to the original comic colors as possible. So without further ado here is Star Wars Vol 1 No. 1 from July 1977. I will be posting this six pages at a time.

Enjoy! 

To be continued....

6/1/1951

Til' next time....

                                                             ALOHA!!