From the course: Lettering Comic Books with Illustrator
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Electric and radio balloons - Illustrator Tutorial
From the course: Lettering Comic Books with Illustrator
Electric and radio balloons
- So here you are in the script, you come across TV (ELEC). Let's check and see what that means in the Lettering Key. We go down the Lettering Key, and there at the end it is, (elec), electronic Transmission balloon. Now let's go to the placements and see what the writers indicated. You can see here on the placements the writer's drawn several spiky outline balloons in this panel, basically to indicate that this character's on TV and he's talking. So his voice should have something of an electronic effect to it. Let's go back to the script and grab the text. So here's our two electrical balloons from this panel. I'm going to highlight and copy, and take note of which words are bold, "stunning accusations" and "super-criminals." Now back in Illustrator, we've got this page set up in our page template. This is going to be Astro City 4 in the exercise files, Script Placements and Art. You can see I've got my sample balloon here, I'm going to option-drag that over to the spot where we're…
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