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Kinda curious as to what people usually use, whether scanning your handdrawn comics, using a tablet to draw/trace them, or doing it all digitally.
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What's the difference between digital and tablets?
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By tablet i mean tracing hand drawn sketches, digitally i mean doing everything on the computer with a mouse.

What im really asking is what do you use to get your comics onto the web, probably should have been abit clearer :)
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I find a building with an outside wall devoid of signs, doors, windows, etcetera.

Then I spraypaint my comic on that wall. Frequently a comic will take up twenty feet or more of wall space.

I photograph my work.

I import my work into paint shop pro.

I convert it from a photograph to a fairly quickly drawn digital image by use of an intuitive chair/keyboard interface. This usually takes 30-45 minutes.

Finally, I submit my work to ComicGenesis and it shows up when scheduled.
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I draw mine in the mud. Unfortunately, the transfer to the scanner doesn't work so well.
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I've done scanning and tracing, currently tackling completely digital pics, with a tablet of course, drawing with a mouse would be killer. :P
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I pee on the couch. It doesn't help with the comic, but if the cat can do it, then so can I!
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I draw and scan. I don't think I could ever move from pencil to tablet. It's just not in me.
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Hmmm quite a few interesting techniques there. :-?

Ive found tablets a pain for tracing, mine's too small :(
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Escushion wrote:I draw and scan. I don't think I could ever move from pencil to tablet. It's just not in me.
No, it's on the table where you left it.
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I draw and scan.

I have a tablet that I'm dabbling with. I may use it for a different comic since I want to keep my current one hand-drawn
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Anyway its not as black and white as a simple either/or. It's possible to use all three methods (Scan a drawing, trace over bits with it with a tablet and digitze the rest).

So though I say draw and scan now, so many changes are made to it in photoshop that in all fairness I could say digital as well. I would say tablet as well but I find a mouse a lot more easier to control, so mine's collecting dust somewhere.
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I've tried diffrent methods. now with my tablet no longer working like it should, I've been scanning in pencils, and inking with illustrator and a mouse.
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Which end of the mouse do you dip?
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Muncho wrote:mine's too small :(

...wha?
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Noise Monkey wrote:
Muncho wrote:mine's too small :(

...wha?
They make some pretty small tablets, like 4 by 6 or something ridiculous like that.
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Mr.Bob wrote:Which end of the mouse do you dip?
evolution has made the tail of the mouse exellent for dipping.
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Mr.Bob wrote:
Escushion wrote:I draw and scan. I don't think I could ever move from pencil to tablet. It's just not in me.
No, it's on the table where you left it.
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Muncho wrote:By tablet i mean tracing hand drawn sketches, digitally i mean doing everything on the computer with a mouse.

What im really asking is what do you use to get your comics onto the web, probably should have been abit clearer :)
I pitty da foo who traces his sketches on paper with a tablet. IT'S IMPOSSIBLE, I TELL YOU!
I made most of my comics by drawing everything with tablet, starting from the sketch. Nowadays, I mostly do everything on paper and then scan. And then I print the scan and scan it again in order to resize the image.
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mcDuffies wrote:
Muncho wrote:By tablet i mean tracing hand drawn sketches, digitally i mean doing everything on the computer with a mouse.

What im really asking is what do you use to get your comics onto the web, probably should have been abit clearer :)
I pitty da foo who traces his sketches on paper with a tablet. IT'S IMPOSSIBLE, I TELL YOU!
I made most of my comics by drawing everything with tablet, starting from the sketch. Nowadays, I mostly do everything on paper and then scan. And then I print the scan and scan it again in order to resize the image.

why?
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