Have you established my alibi, Doc?
on December 18, 2017 at 12:01 amSee? Look how much more room my characters have to ramble when I use a typeface in my comics. Hell, I’m not sure that before this anyone really got to ramble at all. This is a strip that probably would have had to have been a Sunday before just to fit all the words in.
Also new: Now that I wasn’t writing and drawing at the same time, as the dialogue was now being added later, I started writing out dialogue scripts ahead of drawing the panels. This involved completely relearning how I write cartoons. It’s very hard for me to unmarry the art and dialogue, since I’m usually doing them simultaneously. But through sheer force of will, I learned to create strips differently from how my brain had been doing so for… nearly 5 years at this point? For the first time, strips began in a notepad file.
This didn’t last very long — maybe a few months, I don’t recall. Eventually I started creating comics art first and then adding dialogue later. Essentially the old Marvel style, where Stan Lee came up with some very loose ideas, his artist would essentially write the story in illustration form, and then Stan Lee would go back in and add the actual finished dialogue — except I was both dudes. I did comics this way until, like, 2012.
Now, with my Cintiq, I’m able to create strips essentially the same way I did originally back in Roomies!, writing and drawing simultaneously, panel by panel.
oh and also it looks like i’ve quit using markers in favor of 100% computer shading
that probably saved me a fortune
those prismacolor markers are hella spensive
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I still have a billion Prismacolor markers from like twenty(!) years ago… they never get used b/c I was gifted like EVERY COLOUR and of course I didn’t use ANY of them
What the hell do I do with hot pink
(answer: http://sgpsketch.tumblr.com/tagged/pink)
I’ve always preferred crayons and colored pencils over markers for some reason. I guess markers would make more sense for drawing comics though.
Originally posted:
April 7, 2003
Look at Joe casually dismissing the gender of Dina.
I mean, to be fair, there is a difference between “women” and “chicks”.
While Dina is a woman, and a rather attractive one at that, she is incredibly intelligent and not exactly conventionally “Hot” or “sexy”. Therefore, she is not a Chick, and does not land on Joe’s current Horndar.
It’s dumb how Joe doesn’t see the potential advantage of being a complete package. You have the brawn of a all American jock and the brains of a Yale University prodigy how hell is being both a disadvantage ?
It’s weird–I had no idea until the reruns that there was a swap here. And yet now that the markers are gone I miss them and feel there’s a world of difference. A vital texture of these strips has gone missing–at least, until the linework starts catching up again.
I didn’t think it would happen with stuff so relatively early in your artistic development but enlarging these does actually make a difference in how I perceive them.
No, Dina wouldn’t fit into Joe’s definition of ‘chick’, would she?
Dina should be everyone’s definition of ‘chick’. The world would be a much better place with fewer Sals or *shudder* Marys and a lot more Dinas.
…minus the eventual drunken Mike episode of course. Man, just about everyone in these comics are screwed up, aren’t they?
Dina is interested in chicks because chicks are small birds, and are therefore dinosaurs.
Also unintentional Becky foreshadowing
So if you didn’t get a tablet until 2012, was early DoA still drawn on paper, then? I’d be curious to know when the switch occurred.