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[JyonnyNovice]

Hey man! Great to see you're getting that comic book project going! I totally get you on the traditional vibe, it is a great sense of accomplishment when you can look at your work on a physical page! Just beware about juggling too many new/new-ish skills cause you can end up dropping all the balls! Divide and conquer seems to be the approach to learning art stuff. (you knew that anyway)

I have a new comic in process, I started out doing the whole thing traditionally in ink and watercolour, then I switched to just inking by hand and colouring digitally with hand painted texture overlays, now as the pages have mounted up I said screw it and do the whole thing in CSP and even now I get overwhelmed by the pile of pages left to do >.< That's just me though, I have trouble 'staying in the moment' and just focusing on the current page maybe...

I guess in the end it comes down to whether your goal is a traditional look, or enjoying the process of creating it traditionally. For my traditional pages, I ended up tightening things up in photoshop anyway so the original page now looks lacklustre compared to the final, I kind of don't like looking at it anymore ;-;

Anyway, just my thoughts, take with a pinch of salt! Here's a video from Jason Brubaker who has this awesome hybrid digital/traditional look to his comics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHKg-zr-oxs

I think he inked it traditionally too, then added traditionally painted textures, so kind of all done 'traditionally' in a sense, just compiled in photoshop.