Piekos
05-25-2006, 02:30 PM
Not sure if anyone's ever talked about this but it's pretty handy...
Grab a cheap notebook (or you could just start a spreadsheet,) and divide it up alphabetically. When you're done lettering a book write down the title, the name, size and leading of the font(s) you used, the style and stroke size of the balloons, as well as any quick notes on the style of caption boxes you chose. It's also handy to write down your page rate on a book (editor, publisher, etc.)
I started doing this because when a book I've lettered is finally on the shelves, I take the files off my hard drive and burn it to disk to file away. It never failed that there were delays between consecutive issues, or entire series and I'd find myself digging through archived discs and having to upload a page back to my computer so I could check all the specifics before I began the new issue.
Now I just open up my notebook and look up the title alphabetically.
And that's one to grow on... (la la laaaaaaa....)
~N
Grab a cheap notebook (or you could just start a spreadsheet,) and divide it up alphabetically. When you're done lettering a book write down the title, the name, size and leading of the font(s) you used, the style and stroke size of the balloons, as well as any quick notes on the style of caption boxes you chose. It's also handy to write down your page rate on a book (editor, publisher, etc.)
I started doing this because when a book I've lettered is finally on the shelves, I take the files off my hard drive and burn it to disk to file away. It never failed that there were delays between consecutive issues, or entire series and I'd find myself digging through archived discs and having to upload a page back to my computer so I could check all the specifics before I began the new issue.
Now I just open up my notebook and look up the title alphabetically.
And that's one to grow on... (la la laaaaaaa....)
~N