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Well I'd must admit, if it wasn't for the dialog, I'd have a hard time making out who's who! Still, we all get strips like that (normally the one after a really good one myself)

K. Ivan Ruppert wrote:Hmm. I figured Alex just had his ankles crossed...

-K

Still wouldn't work! Both big toes would be on the outside! This is where cheeting and using only three toes comes in handy (the "big" toe is in the center and is hard to screw up)

Also, why is one of Alex's feet on back backwards (said a guy who should NEVER criticise anyones artwork)

What the?

I pressed the button once, I swear!

I like jam!

I like jam!

I'm not overly knowable about these things but it looks like Apache (the web server) having a brain fart or a corrupted file (possibly done when it was copied).

As for strip size: you don't actually need a scanner much bigger than A4. I scan my strips in two halves and glue them together in an appropriate art program. (It becomes very important to get them straight, though.) But there's definitely something to be said for drawing on A4. It must be quicker,...

LevelHead wrote:I am clearly insufficiently sophisticated to properly appreciate the Turner contestants' work, I guess.

Same here too... Assuming "sophisticated" means "recently suffered a massive hard trauma".

Conceptual seems to mean today; 'Make any old tat and bolt on a random "meaning" afterwards!' Also, said meaning is normally meaningless... just like the 'art'. Take Liam Gillick's "Crappy Night-Club Lighting" ... I mean "Coats of Asbestos Spangled With Mica" "In this work, Gillick encourages us to ...

Am I just a philistine, or are the entries getting more and more crappy each year? look for yourself: http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/turnerprize/2002/shortlist.htm This lot makes signs in a shed look clever! I may not know what art is, but I know what's shite! And BOY is this lot shite!

Meh, I just know I could do better.

When you figure out how to do it it dosn't take very long to do the wall thing. Also when you've got you're colour paletes up and running it dosn't take that long to colour the whole strip... Still take me a while tho, and I've grown a style which only needs flood fill to do the lot! I remeber drawi...

Okay, here's a tip: When you a large, flat surface like a wall or a floor it'll look really flat as one colour. This doesn't happen much in black and white but sticks out like a sore thumb when the strips is in colour! So even tho your not shading the rest of the comic, add some basic light effects ...

I think I've seen that but lost intrest half why through. Possibly less.

Remember PhotoShop is an odd beast. I've been using it for years and I STILL keep finding handy new functions. Sadly, PhotoShop is TOO user friendly to the point it isn't any more. The number of features that use the Ctrl or Alt keys and not listed anywhere in the menus is huge! It took me ages to f...

The less colours you use the smaller the PNG file size. Using 256 colours, PNGs kick GIF files asses! Of course it's sometimes better to use JPEGs, but it is a VERY lossy (I don't think that's a real word) format and often shows around the text in a strip. Last week I had to bite the bullet and use ...

Well I can't add much to what's been said except is best to have a number of art/editing apps. I have PhotoShop, Paint Shop Pro and Fireworks. PhotoShop is my main workhorse as it's FAR superior to the other two BUT Fireworks can convert PhotoShop PSD's to PNGs well (converting layers and everything...

Well as you know other OOL's then you souldn't find Actionscript too taxing, but you can ask me if you get stuck.

Yeah I forgotabout THE first one... Well that makes it a remix of a remix (all be it a bad remix of a good one) which just adds to the suckage!