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October 30, 2004

Friday night ()

by fluffy at 2:49 PM
A new comic. (It was a bit too wide to fit into the page layout cleanly this time.)

I felt like drawing it on paper, with the intent of coloring with markers. Fortunately I scanned it before I started coloring since it turns out the markers I bought at the dollar store are beyond atrocious. (So I colored it in Photoshop as usual.)

Next time I'll make sure to make the panels separable since that'll keep things more flexible.

Comments

#3816 10/30/2004 02:15 pm I wish you had more time
To draw. Esp. naked. Very Happy

Plus, I was really addicted to your webcomic for a while. Is it faster / easier / harder to colorize on the computer vs on paper?
#3817 10/30/2004 02:20 pm
Much easier on computer, especially when I draw it there to begin with since then I can just use flood-fill. Pencil drawings are especially obnoxious to color. Though in this case I wanted the coloring to look like markers and that wouldn't have been possible with flood-fill either.

The main reasons I don't draw my comic much anymore is because the drawing itself takes a lot of time, and there hasn't been much I've felt was worth the huge time commitment. Like, today's took like 3 hours from start to finish, though a lot of that was because of stupid issues with my scanner and so on.

Also, ever since I got the 23" monitor, my Wacom tablet has been rather obnoxious to use since it's still only 4"x5", which was only barely tolerable at 1280x1024 and at 1920x1200 it's basically unusable (and for some reason I can't get the Wacom driver to actually remap it to a smaller screen area right now). I should invest in a larger one someday, but I don't feel like spending $350+ for a 9x12.
#3818 10/30/2004 03:09 pm
Just for the hell of it I marker-colored the last panel, and also made it into a desktop image suitable for 23" HD monitors like mine. Very Happy