Well time to finish playing catch up so I can push foward for a better tommorow, because today is almost over.
Before the blog took a hiatus I was struggling to decide how to take my comics from the sketches which was the part of the process I enjoyed into final artworks. The finishing it part was always more of a pain than anything. The problem I think was a problem that a lot of people like myself, tech enthusiats, fall into. The idea that if you don’t involve a microchip then you have failed, and the tech enthusiast police are gonna come and lock you up! The truth is that theres still a lot of room for non-digital tools. With some encouragement from Nikki I gave inking comics by hand a shot. I have had lots of fun with it. Theres something about it that is really satisfying. Its definately nice to have something finished in my hand that I can look at and enjoy.
So here’s a preview of the first comic I finished inking by hand. I’ve gotten a little better since then as I get some practice and figure things out but I am still fairly happy with how this came out.
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So yeah, sometimes computers AREN’T the answer. I know, it scares me too. Its ok though, I have a couple other blog entries where computers are the answer to restore the status quo and reclaim my place in the world as a tech enthusiast. In fact I’m going to get down right geeky. and hopefully I’ll get back on the ball with my comics. I’ve been putting off doing them for awhile as I got absorbed with other things, mostly WoW. But its given me some new ideas so overall worth it I think.
Number of comics I am theoretically behind on: 21 (yeah I’m holding myself to having done comics on a semi arbitrary start date of the first monday in june which is vaugely when I started this backlog. I’ll keep posting this number and hopefully guilt myself into catching up. worth a shot right?)
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