artsy stuff

[nanslice]

A while back I downloaded the 30 day trial version of Manga Studio. WHOA. It's not particularly intuitive but I played around with it today and I'm beginning to understand it better. It's definitely helpful in terms of creating comics, which makes sense since that's the whole point, hahaha. This program isn't very expensive so I'll probably be buying it soon-ish. :3

So omens linked a bunch of comics on Tapastic and now I kind of want to work on a webcomic? I mean technically I'm working on a graphic novel for school but the webcomic would be for Josh and the hooded man (which most of you probably don't know but I'll be creating an original fiction filter so that you guys get to meet these characters) and that's a pretty dark, unhealthy story. I mean. The comic for school needs to be a coming of age story and I guess technically Josh's story is, in a pretty horrible kind of way. XD

Uhm, hmmm. Lineness digital painting is really difficult; I don't know what the disconnect is between traditional painting (which is lineless, of course) and digital paintings but it's giving me fits. As is speed painting, haha. Oh well. I just need to keep practicing.

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[hamimi_fk]

I checked out Manga Studio once and it was very beautiful in terms of comic help, especially paneling. I can't quite wrap my brain around paneling sometimes. ^^;

You should definitely do a webcomic though! I really want to do one too but who knows how long before I finally get my laptop fixed, and get a drawing tablet. What I'm saying is that I want to live my webcomic dream vicariously through you for now. XD

[nanslice]

Oh man, same here. I'm pretty terrible at panel design. It's much better when I can see what's available and just pick! I mean, I know that you can make your panels however you want but uh, that doesn't mean they'll necessarily look good, you know?

I'm gonna do the thing! I want to have at least two pages done before I post anything (and decide on a post schedule omg) but yeah, I'm doing it. Since I've technically written this story before (it was originally a NaNoWriMo story, one that I actually completed!) I have the actually plot down, I just need to go through and get rid of some erroneous details and places where it really was just filler to reach 50k. XD But the beginning and the ending are both strong so that's good.