Script to Strip

Original Script

The first page of "Good Luck Chuck" was drawn from this page of script by Tom Huxley...

Original Script

Nigel Kitching's Pencils

Nigel Kitching drew out the full page in pencil. He knew he was only going to draw the central panel, but he had to know how it would fit on the page! Notice that Nigel has added one panel to the start of the page...

Nigel Kitching's Pencils

The Inks

With the page fully pencilled, Nigel set about finalising the lines for his panel on a separate page using inks and a lightbox. Can you spot all the hidden references to past Decap adventures in this panel?

The Inks

Colours for the main panel (by Nigel Kitching)

Having scanned the page, Nigel then set about colouring it using Adobe Photoshop!

Colours for the main panel (by Nigel Kitching)

Colours by Nigel Dobbyn

Meanwhile, on a lark, Nigel Dobbyn decided to ink and colour the Igor panel on his computer! We liked it so much we thought we'd bring it in!

Colours by Nigel Dobbyn

Bringing it together...

So Stiv assembled all the panels onto one page - with them all in such different stages it looks a bit like Frank N. Stein's monster!

Compositing it together...

Final composite

Stiv finished the remaining panels and added a logo...

Final composite with Michael 'Stiv' Stephenson's colours

The final page!

...while Michael Corker gave Stiv's colours a final polish, Tom Huxley wrote some new dialogue and Shanna Hand lettered it all up!

And with the lettering: The final page!

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