How to Add Word Balloons to Comic Strip

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"Next, we're going to take our felt ink pen again and color in our text making sure to keep it legible. Any of the blue we directly cover up we will erase here, but only after we're done. If you find our letters are getting too thick and the ink runs together, consider going down one size in your felt marker. I'm using an 8. Maybe I want to go down to a 5 if I'm finding that the ink is crowding my letters and hurting legibility. In my case, I'm happy with this. This is very readable. It's working very well, and I'm also watching my smudging to make sure that I'm staying away from the lettering so that I don't smear it. After we finish our lettering, there's the other option of word balloons. Some people just have their text floating above here in space. Other people will prefer to have a word balloon. By drawing a word balloon, you're going to have a tail, which will go up from the head like so. Then you'll have a semi-circular shape matching with the shape that you have on the canvas. It's going to come around and surround all the lettering you just did. The lines on this will be relatively equal, but not necessarily perfect. You're drawing it in. Basically, we'll flow in action of where the text you read on the left, that's what happens first. Any text over on the right will be happening next."