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by Guyford
Thu Sep 25, 2008 4:31 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: mcDuff's reviewalicious thread
Replies: 166
Views: 21161

Re: mcDuff's reviewalicious thread

McDuffles: Gotcha on the first two points. Thanks for the clarification. And it's also a relief to find that you didn't have any real problems with load times. Maybe my ISP just went wonky during the time said person was browsing. Levi-chan: I can see what you mean about the Udon stuff. I've never r...
by Guyford
Thu Sep 25, 2008 11:45 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: mcDuff's reviewalicious thread
Replies: 166
Views: 21161

Re: mcDuff's reviewalicious thread

Thanks for the feedback McDuffles. No worries on the ripping apart of the comic :) Coloring: Highlights: I see your point here. I do need to work on the "sameness" that things have. Light source: I agree with you here too. Sometimes I get it right, sometimes I don't. Softness of objects: I do see wh...
by Guyford
Thu Sep 11, 2008 5:17 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: mcDuff's reviewalicious thread
Replies: 166
Views: 21161

Re: mcDuff's reviewalicious thread

Would you be able to take a look at my comic as well? I'd appreciate the feedback if you've got time for a critique.
by Guyford
Thu Aug 28, 2008 5:31 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Hand Drawn Vrs Digital
Replies: 93
Views: 21785

Re: Hand Drawn Vrs Digital

I sometimes envy she crispness of the lines people who ink digitally get...no matter how clean my inks are there always seems to be a slight loss of clarity when I scan 'em. Of course I'm probably the only person on the planet anal enough to notice, but still. Ultimately though I just don't much en...
by Guyford
Wed Aug 13, 2008 5:36 pm
Forum: Technique Tips and Tricks
Topic: Panels?
Replies: 13
Views: 2519

Re: Panels?

I usually do rectangular panels with the rectangular marquee tool, but I did use the polygonal lasso tool for the one page where I had a non-rectangular panel and thought it turned out well. After I scan in my art, I do the usual clean up and create a new layer for the panel borders. I use the marqu...
by Guyford
Fri May 09, 2008 4:51 pm
Forum: Technique Tips and Tricks
Topic: Lower/Upper case fonts vs. All CAPS
Replies: 17
Views: 3560

Re: Lower/Upper case fonts vs. All CAPS

I use an all caps font (digital strip). It's not very flashy and it's pretty easy to read for me. The letter 'i' (and maybe 'j'--I can't remember) is the only one that switches between caps and lower case, but even then it's not really a lower case 'i'. If I want to emphasize something, I either cha...
by Guyford
Fri May 09, 2008 4:41 pm
Forum: Technique Tips and Tricks
Topic: How far in advance do you usually upload?
Replies: 40
Views: 8276

Re: How far in advance do you usually upload?

I'm at the most extreme - I've got comics for the beginning of September uploaded. At two a week, that's what, 34 or so? Man, I wish I had a buffer... With the exception of a few pages, I almost always end up cutting it really close to update day (which is anywhere in between "right before update d...
by Guyford
Thu Feb 14, 2008 7:27 pm
Forum: Technique Tips and Tricks
Topic: I'd rather gnaw off my arm than draw another background...
Replies: 29
Views: 4042

My like/dislike of backgrounds is proportionate to the amount of time I have left to get an update done. Normally, I like to draw that stuff. If I didn't have any time constraints on updates, I'd add as much detail as I could. But since I try to get stuff out once a week, I usually aim for one estab...
by Guyford
Thu Nov 08, 2007 4:12 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Jack's Webcomic Reviews is now up!
Replies: 506
Views: 26418

I apologize if this is considered unnecessary bumping of this thread, but I just wanted to say thanks to Jack for taking the time to do a review for my web comic. I thought I'd post here because I initially asked for a review in this thread around half a year ago and thought it would be the proper p...
by Guyford
Thu Nov 01, 2007 5:30 pm
Forum: Technique Tips and Tricks
Topic: How do you maintain interest?
Replies: 56
Views: 4742

Perhaps you might find that drawing/planning/writing shorter arcs/stories is a bit easier. It certainly works for me. That's what I do also. I've got the whole plot figured out and outlined for my story, but when it comes to drawing and scripting, I try to organize things in terms of scenes/story a...
by Guyford
Thu Nov 01, 2007 4:21 pm
Forum: Comic Pitching
Topic: Come check out Gun Baby, the scifi epic
Replies: 9
Views: 1786

I really like how your coloring meshes with your linework. Especially the outdoor scenes where the backgrounds have more of a painted look while the figures/machinery are cel shaded. It gives the impression of each panel being a still from an animated movie (it's also something I've wanted to do, bu...
by Guyford
Tue Sep 18, 2007 5:27 pm
Forum: Comic Pitching
Topic: Substitute Class Imago - Now ClassImago.co.uk
Replies: 4
Views: 369

I like the switch to your newer style. The faces look unique and the lines are clean. I also like the red color thing you have going in the last few pages.

Congrats on sticking with it for a year also. :)
by Guyford
Tue Sep 18, 2007 4:55 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Black & white or colour?
Replies: 50
Views: 7887

Mine started out in grayscale and then switched to color after a few months. The main reason was the time needed to finish coloring a page (takes me a few hours to color a page). The plan was for me to stick with grayscale and use color pages every once in a while. I initially thought it would take ...
by Guyford
Thu Aug 16, 2007 9:00 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Hey, you - VOTE on BATMAN!
Replies: 49
Views: 2842

I vote for Col :)
by Guyford
Tue Aug 14, 2007 10:35 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Hey, you - DRAW the DARK KNIGHT!
Replies: 74
Views: 3776

There's a lot of nice stuff up! :D

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by Guyford
Tue Aug 14, 2007 3:09 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Hey, you - DRAW the DARK KNIGHT!
Replies: 74
Views: 3776

This looks like fun :) I'm going try to submit something too.
by Guyford
Fri Jul 27, 2007 5:11 pm
Forum: Comic Pitching
Topic: A Werewolf Story Pitch #2 (now with werewolf stuff)
Replies: 3
Views: 450

adobedragon: Thanks for taking a look and bookmarking! That guy: In regards to the site design, I'm not very good at the website design thing, so I just copied my friend's template and substituted my images for his. I'm also looking into simplifying the site, but I haven't found a layout that I'm ha...
by Guyford
Thu Jul 26, 2007 5:34 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Tag/Shout Board/Box
Replies: 18
Views: 2070

I'm looking to get a shout box type thing to put up on my page, and after reading another thread (hell if I can remember which one it was now) in which Kisai told of a box spawning pop ups, I want to make sure I get one that doesn't suck. Which shout boxes have and haven't worked for you? Any you l...
by Guyford
Thu Jul 26, 2007 5:27 pm
Forum: Comic Pitching
Topic: A Werewolf Story Pitch #2 (now with werewolf stuff)
Replies: 3
Views: 450

A Werewolf Story Pitch #2 (now with werewolf stuff)

It's been a few months since I last posted here, so I figured I'd make another plug post for my webcomic "A Werewolf Story". It's a horror comic about 3 friends and what happens to them once they are exposed to the supernatural. Initially, I was going to do this in grayscale, but made the switch to ...
by Guyford
Wed Jun 27, 2007 4:35 pm
Forum: Technique Tips and Tricks
Topic: New website...I need some opinions.
Replies: 14
Views: 1131

I'm still working out the issues for my site navigation and there are so many different approaches to this sort of thing, so I can't say I'm the know all/end all of website usability, but here goes... It does look cleaner than your current page and while the image is very well done and eyecatching, ...