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Oct. 9th, 2011 11:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dolariThere won't be a comic today, but this time, there's a good reason - I'm experimenting with new way of doing the comics.
I loved the Illustrator "inked" comics, but while they were clean and gave super high resolution images for printing, they lacked....character. They were too clean. The hand inked comics had detail, but were too large and looked terrible when blown up to print quality.
So now I'm trying a mix of the two. I'm actually hand inking on paper, then scanning into Illustrator and turning the inks into vector art. This preserved all the detail I got from hand inking, and vector graphic prints that blow up nice. The only down side is the files can get kinda big, and they're "Dirty" with lots of specks that don't always go away.
Still, I'm much happier with this middle ground. What do you think? http://www.dolari.net/pub/cs4.pdf is a high quality print of next weeks comic (Panel #4). It's about 3MB and in an Adobe PDF format.
I loved the Illustrator "inked" comics, but while they were clean and gave super high resolution images for printing, they lacked....character. They were too clean. The hand inked comics had detail, but were too large and looked terrible when blown up to print quality.
So now I'm trying a mix of the two. I'm actually hand inking on paper, then scanning into Illustrator and turning the inks into vector art. This preserved all the detail I got from hand inking, and vector graphic prints that blow up nice. The only down side is the files can get kinda big, and they're "Dirty" with lots of specks that don't always go away.
Still, I'm much happier with this middle ground. What do you think? http://www.dolari.net/pub/cs4.pdf is a high quality print of next weeks comic (Panel #4). It's about 3MB and in an Adobe PDF format.
