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What do you think? Using pencils now instead of just inking the sketch.

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The pencil work is quite good in the sense that it gives the characters more shape and dimension while the ink was good if you wanted to keep things loading fast and simple. I don't know, I'm fine w/ both styles.

-Albrecht

The pencils definitely look better than the recent inked stuff. But way back at the beginning of your archive, you have inked stuff that's actually scanned properly, with anti-aliasing, so it doesn't look hellishly jagged. I think if you went back to scanning like that, your inkwork would look at least as good as the pencils. (and be smaller in terms of file size)

I agree with Sylvan. The way you started inking does look better than the pencils.

hey thanks for the feedback-

I think I'm going to try the pencil for awhile more. I don't have a rabid audience at this point so I might as well experiment

As to the earlier comics - it's purely intentional on my part. In early 2001 I was going for a PVP style and as the year went on I realized that it wasn't catching on much. That may have just been lack of promotion on my part but.... So mostly its not poor scanning (although there are a few scattered through the archives that may have more stray marks when I got a new scanner and was still messing with the settings)

I know what you mean ^_^ Of course experimenting is fun all the time! Right now I'm attempting a new 'style' where I shade everything and - one. Could I get some feedback on that? I started with it in today's comic, see link bellow.

- Liz

On 2002-03-27 10:42, Odd1 wrote:
Right now I'm attempting a new 'style' where I shade everything and - one. Could I get some feedback on that? I started with it in today's comic, see link bellow.

- Liz

Shade every comic. Always. That's damn pretty.

*worship worship worship*

Allthough.... your light source seems a little inconsistant. The light falling on the round seat back appeared to be from the top and left, but the lighting on the boobs seemed to be from directly overhead.

(Hmmm.... what lighting effects did I notice first? YOU BE THE JUDGE!)
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I first noticed the booth cover shiny thingey whatever stuff. Looks like some major trouble was gone through in shading that bad boy. If you're going to spend that long on the shading, why not make just the slightest extra effort and move to color? You look like you have the skill to do it (unlike some people), and really wouldn't be much harder than what you're doing now. Maybe black and white's your thing, though, in which case ignore me. I never really shade anything due to my extreme laziness and lack of l33t ph0t0sh0p skillz.

Very impressive, though.

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*Kicks the server.*

On 2002-03-27 13:33, JasterW wrote:
I first noticed the booth cover shiny thingey whatever stuff. Looks like some major trouble was gone through in shading that bad boy. If you're going to spend that long on the shading, why not make just the slightest extra effort and move to color? You look like you have the skill to do it (unlike some people), and really wouldn't be much harder than what you're doing now. Maybe black and white's your thing, though, in which case ignore me. I never really shade anything due to my extreme laziness and lack of l33t ph0t0sh0p skillz.

Very impressive, though.

I mentioned once before that the only reason that I don't move to color is that my comic file sizes are so large already... I tried a color page and the size almost doubled... However I know for a fact that it wouldn't take me one minute longer than what I'm doing right now, lol!

I'm glad you like the shading. The lighting in the bar is (very conveniently) little spotlights everywhere, so the directions vary. I still need practice shading either way ^_~

- Liz

It works!


Hahaha peewee's fucking playhouse...

i'm going to try a compliment here...

it hurts...

that ads some good character to your comic. it think you should spit on the page too, maybe a couple coffee stains.

i too made a change in style and would like some feedback, i went from pencil sketch to color... keenparody

yesterday's comic, and the day before, has both versions.

let me know, i am truly interested in your feedback. i love you.

bas tage

Thanks for the comments. First off - like Papermoon and the artwork is nice. (i've only gotten to read the recent stuff) I agree with Scrubbo though - you're shading is good enough that flaws look like flaws as opposed to style. So I'd watch the light source. But it looks good though!

And BasTage - you've resurfaced! And in color? Wow, too much. When you get tired of keenparodying come by ALTBRAND -- those guys need s0me hazin'

I'd appreciate if I could get some feedback on my "artwork"...
I've been using a blue pencil, then inking in the main bits, then using a normal 0.3 HB pencil to do a spot of shading. Then this is scanned from the a4 size paper it's drawn on. I scan it in grey scale at 600dpi then reduce the size. Is that alright? I am willing to try out suggestions/methods/styles...

Thanks!!
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Hey I've got another comic (miniseries coming in May on ALTBRAND that I'm looking for feedback on now - here's a preview of a few comics at http://4panels.altbrand.com

I'm still working on this project so if you have any feedback at all fire away --

thanks.