Again, I'm sorry I wasn't feeling up to streaming the color process live, but there will be more piece like this down the road I can share with you all when I'm feeling better. Using the Dodge and Burn tools with a stock textured brush in Photoshop, I went in and rendered the final colors for the piece. In this step I also established my color holds (areas I want the ink to be a color rather than black) And I isolated the inks for the crows, the runic 9, and Merek's scars. Establishing what areas are which colors. This is basically coloring in the lines with flat colors. The first step to coloring digitally is creating color flats. I'd planned to do the coloring process on stream too, but I came down with some con-crud after SDCC and I didn't feel up to being Live on Stream while feeling crappy. I purposely left some gaps between the crow silhouettes and the foreground or borders so that I could more easily isolate them in the next step. I inked this piece entirely on my Twitch Stream. For pens I used Copic Multiliners (I think I only used the 0.7 nib here). On a Huion light pad I was able to ink the piece while seeing through the surface of the bristol. Once the layout was ready, I printed it out and taped it to the back of a sheet of Strathmore 300 bristol. The symbol in the upper right corner is a made-up runic number '9' (the vertical bar is just a pole to hang the roman numerals V and four I's). Part of the story of Merek is that the crows saw his deeds and carry the folly of Merek with them. In the background I pasted in several stock photo crows in flight. I combined these two drawings in photoshop and tinted them different colors to help me see which lines belonged to which figure. On another sheet, I drew the crab (with some help from my reference photo). I then did a pencil drawing of Merek on a sheet of copy paper. Julia went to our local fish monger and bought two cooked, but whole crabs I could use as reference. Merek does a horrible deed on the shores of Ildur, but instead of showing that again, I opted to have him battle a creature––a fan favorite, a crab! I still had the photos I took from when I was drawing the 2nd issue of Fall. In the epilogue, Lieam dreams a starry crow tells him the folly of Merek, and I give the readers the only images we see of this axe wielder (as he does not appear on the scrap of tapestry). Publishers use these marks when books are returned to them.In the 3rd Mouse Guard book: The Black Axe, I revealed (spoiler alert) that there have been nine wielders of the Black Axe before Celanawe. Remainder Mark - A remainder mark is usually a small black line or dot written with a felt tip pen or Sharpie on the top, bottom, side page edges and sometimes on the UPC symbol on the back of the book.If excessively worn, they will be marked as "tray worn." Flat trays for SPI games are not graded, and have the usual problems.If excessively worn, they will be marked as "card worn." The cardboard backing of miniature packs is not graded.In most cases, boxed games and box sets do not come with dice.Due to the nature of loose counters, if a game is unplayable it may be returned for a refund of the purchase price. Boardgame counters are punched, unless noted.Major defects and/or missing components are noted separately.Example, EX+ is an item between Excellent and Near Mint condition. A "plus" sign indicates that an item is close to the next highest condition.When only one condition is listed, then the box and contents are in the same condition. The Black Axe, a weapon forged by Farrer and now wielded by his youngest heir, is put to the test so that one lone mouse can slay the red-furred villain.
#BLACK AXE MOUSE GUARD CODE#
Boxed items are listed as "code/code" where the first code represents the box, and the second code describes the contents.