Comic Genesis Forums

I actually have a hard time drawing without music... although my tatses run from odd to stereotypical; which means I have some of the craziest most random playlists in the world. I have one list that includes Metallica, the japanese Sailor Moon music, the Beegees, System of a Down, Pat Benetar, Celt...

Well as far as the web site goes, a organized, prominent menu is first priority. The characters button looks very out of place by itself, so why not make other sections to go with it? You can add an image link to your message board instead and maybe even add a few sections like links, about you, etc...

wp wrote:600 dpi? 720 dpi? Isn't that overkill? Are you making posters out of your comics?

Actually the higher dpi is for better resolution for printing to be prepared just in case the impossible dream of getting printed comes true ^^;.

16k... um...wow. I'd be happy with 3-5 man slaves to do my bidding... but I'm a simple kind of guy ^^;.

12? Yeesh I end up with more per frame x_X. I think maybe 20ish per frame.

The bottom section looks very akward with the thin narrow strip of stuff dragging the page longer then it should be. I recomend using a table or layers to reposition it to the side of the comic so it looks less thrown on the bottom.

Glad you got it to work ^^ looking at some of the posts and this one I'm tempted to make a mini layers tutorial to help people out as layers are one of the most useful things ever.

I don't know if gimp can do it or not but I know in Photoshop you could put the pencily image in a layer above the color one and just change the layer setting from normal to multiply.

Very nice looking rocks. I wish I had the time to do real hand-coloring on my comic but ehh, with college, work and my MMO ( For research, honest) it's hard to spend that much time on each strip.

Well this isn't really a poll so much as another question list wondering what proggies and whatnot people work in. 1.) What Program/s do you use to make your comics? - For now I use a combinataion of Illustrator, and Photoshop, thinking of trying open canvas or painter as well to make some prettier ...

I don't want to sound mean here but the general rule of thumb when it comes to scaling up is- Don't. ( Well unless it's vector ) Scaling up images that much in raster formats will give you horrible results as programs don't handle reproducing the pixels well and it'll give you a very blocky image th...

1) Five fingers, trying to simplify it to four just encourages people to slack on their anatomy and understanding bone structure is very important, even in comics. 2) I usually do color so yes I shade, and even in black and white I'll vary the amount of cross hatching to show differences in skin ton...

So far with everyone I've talked to I've had about equal votes for each side ^^;. Since it's half done anyway the second strip'll be vector and I may just go with a mix of both if I can get scanned line art with transparency to import to illustrator at 600 dpi... And the avatar is from a print style...

Might help if I posted an example of both before asking ^^;; I like sticking to hand inking because it's faster, but I know that a lot of the really big comics use vector, so I've been stuck on which way to go. I'm not really worried about speed so much as creating an appealing professional looking ...

Well I've finally started getting Fantasy Writ going, but have come up with a small conundrum- Should I hand ink and color in a raster program like photoshop? Or should I follow the webcomic trend and do my inking and color in a vector program like illustrator? The one real comic I have posted was h...