by Kiva on Mon Apr 02, 2001 9:23 am
Spiffy stuff? Hehe, naw, lots of "pros" I know are avid typing paper (newsprint, even...!) and mechanical pencil users. <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/wink.gif"><P>Try not to find yourself worrying so much about finding the "professional" tools (no such thing), rather, look at how to use some of the tools you probably already have. It'll surprise you how much time/money you'll waste on things you won't use otherwise. <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/smile.gif"> Seriously, the best tool I've ever found is the local bookstore. Adobe, Wacom, Prismacolor, and Copic will never magically zap anyone with more talent than they already do or don't have. <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/smile.gif"><P>As for some of the technicalities you asked about... well, pencillers tended to use blue and red colored pencils (Jesster, I think you're thinking of Col-erase pencils) <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/smile.gif">because the lighter-colored lines didn't show up on a Xerox copy. Color scanning tends to pick up even light colors, though, so it's probably better to scan in grayscale and then adjust brightness/contrast settings to "clean up" the lines. Given you make you final lines dark, this works... but inking (the way Jessie does) makes the lines even crisper. <P>Resolution really shouldn't matter unless you're sending it off for CMYK printing. 75 dpi (screen) resolution will be enough for that. <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/smile.gif"><P>Happy 'tooning and next time you see a blank sheet of paper, look for the polar bear in a blizzard. <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/wink.gif"><P>------------------
Mighty power of the pencil to you!!