Hey, David here, and welcome to the beginning of Assassin: A Love Story; In these commentaries that accompany each page we discuss our thoughts on the comic, our rants and raves if you will. As you may already know, I am the artist for this comic. As for the process, I start with a bic mechanical pencil, with red lead instead of normal lead. I start the basic sketches on a sheet of computer copy paper, after I finish the basic sketch, I go through with a normal leaded pencil. Then I ink with just about any pen I have available, usually they are ballpoints. When I scan the comic, I use Adobe Streamline to convert the image so it can be adjusted in Photoshop, I add the shading at a 20% opacity layer. Finally I add text and dialogue balloons.

With this page however, my inking tool was sharpie markers... which made me fall unconscious. Oh well...

I remember when I wrote the first page of this. Handwritten, and I wrote issue one within an hour. It was just a very fun idea, that I fell in love with. Hope other people do, but it's no big deal ^_^.