Normally, what I do is draw on an 8 1/2 sheet of typing paper or scrap paper (I have tons of the stuff from my Kinko's days) using a really sharp #2 pencil. Basically, I try to draw what I see straight onto paper, but ocasionally you'll see me use the "Ball and cylinder" method of drawing.
Once all the pencilling is done for an episode, I'll ink it using a Bic ball point pen (or any other pen that let's the ink out smoothly, like a Pilot. I usually add lots of detail in the inking.
After that, I scan the image as a pure 2 color Black and white image (not greyscale) at 300 DPI. A regular sheet of paper will scan in about 3500x2500 pixels. Once it's scanned in, I'll clean up any stray pencil marks that made it through the scan, and do any editing I need to do (moving an eye, shaving a line down, recompositing a face).
Adter that, depending on what the panel calls for, I'll composite stuff in (like the star backgrounds for AWFW, or more intricate backgrounds (The gazebo for Closetspace is one example). After it's all composited, I'll draw in the color/greyscale using an optical mouse.
Finally, the 3500x2500 image gets shoved down to 224x224 with bilinear sampling. This gives it a nice semi-blurred look so that the background and foreground mix together well.
After I do that, I fire up my comic template and assemble the comics into their 3x2 panels.
I load up Pagemaker, and do all my lettering in it, transferring it over to Paint Shop Pro 6 (my graphics editor). Then it gets shoved down from 16 Million colors to 256 colors and saved as a GIF (because GIF doesn't rearrange pixels). I'll ocasionally do JPG if the GIF gets WAY too gradiated or colors start blurring into the grey.
After that, I upload the comic where people tell me it sucks and I should go back to doing tech support. :)
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Date: 2002-09-04 07:46 pm (UTC)*curious*
i r a arteest
Date: 2002-09-04 08:31 pm (UTC)Normally, what I do is draw on an 8 1/2 sheet of typing paper or scrap paper (I have tons of the stuff from my Kinko's days) using a really sharp #2 pencil. Basically, I try to draw what I see straight onto paper, but ocasionally you'll see me use the "Ball and cylinder" method of drawing.
Once all the pencilling is done for an episode, I'll ink it using a Bic ball point pen (or any other pen that let's the ink out smoothly, like a Pilot. I usually add lots of detail in the inking.
After that, I scan the image as a pure 2 color Black and white image (not greyscale) at 300 DPI. A regular sheet of paper will scan in about 3500x2500 pixels. Once it's scanned in, I'll clean up any stray pencil marks that made it through the scan, and do any editing I need to do (moving an eye, shaving a line down, recompositing a face).
Adter that, depending on what the panel calls for, I'll composite stuff in (like the star backgrounds for AWFW, or more intricate backgrounds (The gazebo for Closetspace is one example). After it's all composited, I'll draw in the color/greyscale using an optical mouse.
Finally, the 3500x2500 image gets shoved down to 224x224 with bilinear sampling. This gives it a nice semi-blurred look so that the background and foreground mix together well.
After I do that, I fire up my comic template and assemble the comics into their 3x2 panels.
I load up Pagemaker, and do all my lettering in it, transferring it over to Paint Shop Pro 6 (my graphics editor). Then it gets shoved down from 16 Million colors to 256 colors and saved as a GIF (because GIF doesn't rearrange pixels). I'll ocasionally do JPG if the GIF gets WAY too gradiated or colors start blurring into the grey.
After that, I upload the comic where people tell me it sucks and I should go back to doing tech support. :)