WOW, I can't believe I've reached 100 posts. To celebrate this feat I am putting up a comic that I did just recently, but it's not just any comic, it's drawn and colored completely on the cintiq. I know I have mention how nice it is to draw on the cintiq, but it doesn't do it justice. It's not quite the same as drawing on paper because you don't have the feel of the scrape of pen or pencil on paper, it has the fluid movement similar to a marker coloring on grease. Some of the best aspects of drawing on the cintiq is the ability to re-size and move different selections and use layers, those are the tools that I love being able to use among many more that I use.
Here is the finished black and white image I did, before coloring. This is the first time I added in the spacer bars to break up each panel. It's been a debate that I have had with myself of whether to have spacer bars or not, this one I felt like it really needed them to help distinguish between the panels.
Here is the colored version. Coloring this was really easy and involving. Once I started it, it was hard to tear me away from it I just wanted to keep going and do more an more (even now that i am done I look at it and want to do more.) I'm not super happy how the fog turned out but it works and looks good enough for now.
Well, I wasn't able to get a Thanksgiving comic done for today's post, so this will have to do. (I might be able to pull one out before the holiday but no promises.) It's been a hectic crazy week, I have been uncontrollably busy, so I dragged this one out from my reserves.
I have had an idea for this comic ever since my wife and I flew out of the Bob Hope Airport in Burbank where they actually had a flower bouquet vending machine. Who actually uses those?! Finally I figured out an instance where such a flower vending machine would come in handy.
Here is the Halloween post I was trying to get done in time for Halloween but other things kept coming up and personal time was eaten up first. I'm going to work on some Thanksgiving strips next, but in the mean time I have some other strips I have completed to post in between those. I am going to try and keep up postings for once a week, that's a cool more attainable then a strip daily or bi-weekly. - Oh and by the by I just got my wife's and I's laptops updated at a great place, if your in the bay area I highly recomend going to Fix That Mac in Berkerley Tyler did an awesome job with our laptops at a great price.
I didn't finish up the planned Halloween strip for today so I will post this one that I recently finished. When I first started drawing these comics I had in-visioned them to all be colored in with black and white tones, because I like to look of black and white pictures and wanted to incorporate that into the strip. maybe I'll just settle on some of them in the black and white look.
Here is the first of several comics I have done recently on my Cintiq. They are some of my older comics that I have re-worked and drawn in the proper size for syndication. This is the first step of creating a treasury book of my comics.
Here is a work in progress I am working on, in celebration of Chinese New Year. I did it all on my Cintiq, I'm still getting the hang of it.
