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I may try this out. I wonder how it would make inking lines look... I'm curious to know what benefits this program has over Illustrator or Photoshop for doing this sort of stuff... The big advantage you get over Photoshop is a theoretically infinite resolution -- PS is pixel-based, so if you genera...

Hi guys - it's been a while... :) I've been playing about with Inkscape a little recently (though without my Wacom ArtPad - the power brick has gone AWOL), and came up with a quick trick for quickly creating speech-bubbles: 1. Open the Layers window (Layer -> Layers... or Ctrl-Shift-L) and add a new...

Well, OK, how about this. A few folks have been asking me about a configurable RSS system for webcomics - one that includes an embedded "enclosure" object that links to the comic image itself, or a shrunken version of the main website. The idea being that people get the comic itself and the latest n...

thanks MH... disclaimer added. :D though i think it's weird... the only things i ever see is workopolis and 'earn your degree online' stuff. Yay for Firefox! My loyal browser slays the ads before they ever reach my screen! ^_^ I have no idea what gets displayed under the radar, though... How do I a...

"You don't like webhosts that malfunction and are down constantly?! What the hell is wrong with you...GET THE HELL OUT! We here are Comicgensis like our error pages, and anyone who politely complains THERE'S THE DOOR!" Heh, that's half the reason I got the dedi - I got sick of webhosts screwing thi...

Turnsky wrote:i'm guessing something's up with the mySQL again. in either case.

If there was something up with MySQL, I'd expect Siteadmin to break. Given that the pages aren't even loading, Apache's probably gone A-over-T. Or the server has taken one look at the queue and crashed outright.

i love the smell of burning silicon in the morning. in the meantime, i advise you folks with a forum or the like to utilize services such as photobucket, and post your updates there. Or if anyone's really stuck, PM me - I've got a bit of spare space on a dedicated server that I'm sure I could spare...

..er... ...is there any left? ...if there is I'd pay to get one sent my way if that was agreeable... Aye, same here. I tried all three of the local comic book shops and got: "We only got a few of those in - they went as soon as we opened the doors" "We don't get the KS or CG samplers in." "We're no...

Partly laziness, partly 'too much other stuff to do', mostly 'damn, my drawings suck'.

Personally - and I mean this really is just my personal opinion being expressed here and nothing more - I would steer clear from how-to-draw books full stop. What's more, I would recommend rethinking your decision to draw in the manga style. Now, if you're a fan of manga and anime then by all means...

forget the How to draw manga books. Look for Andrew Loomis books. Some are online here: http://www.fineart.sk/index.php?cat=1 obviously not all safe for work. since it's anatomy.) Sparrow's right. realism first, THEN manga. I did it the other way around and had to relearn quite a bit to scrap a few...

Hi, I'm looking into buying a few books on drawing comics. My current skills are pretty basic (I've done a bit of technical drawing, and a few sketches here and there but nothing really worth publishing far-and-wide). At the moment I've got these on my 'might order these from Amazon' list: - How to ...

Anything worth reading basically... Convincing fights (both scripting and writing), anything remotely funny (sarcasm I can do, hell I'm British - if I couldn't do sarcasm, I wouldn't be much of a Brit). My big problem is I'll write a load of little chunks of story, then never find a good way to tie ...

Depending on what I'm doing, what's nearest me and how I'm feeling, one of the following: - Rotring Isograph (basically a Rapidograph with a refillable ink cartridge), 0.25mm typically, 0.35 for shading, 0.15 for fine detail (that almost never survives scanning anyway, but natch). - Staedtler Pigmen...

Nicely done, rkolter! I like it. What did you use to create the animation?
Now I'll see what I can do about creating some 468x60 banners

OK, here's my feeble attempt at link-button creation...

First the 88x31 version:


And the 200x40 version:


Any comments?

rkolter wrote:I have an idea for a banner link. What's the font used in the ComicGenesis logo?

From 'fonts.txt' included in the Cgen logo pack:
Title font: MetroDF (http://www.freefontscollection.com/metr ... or+pc.html)
Tagline font: WhiteRabbit (http://www.squaregear.net/fonts/)

CG Logo: http://www.comicgenesis.com/Templates/comic_genesis_logo.zip Any chance of a copy of the PSD file without the layer sets? I'd like to get a "clean" copy of the text with the 'glow' effect, but PSE2 won't let me blast apart the layer sets to separate the logo from the text... All I'm after ...

I've got a half-done Tagboard on the work list for my "Webgadgets" project (I'll bet $5 someone's already taken that name). I've almost finished the poll script - just need to finish the admin stuff. Some of the planned features include Captcha ("what are the letters in this image/soundclip") checki...

This really doesn't surprise me. My site got onto the Websense and RM SafetyNet filters a few years back. To the best of my knowledge it's still on there... IIRC WebSense used the "personal website" and "objectionable content" categories to block my site, and RM wouldn't even tell me what their crit...