Gray snob or Color nazi?

[Biev]

I've been using mostly colors in the dream world, grayscale / monochrome in the real world for dramatic moments, and I'm saving pure black and white for actual violent scenes, if I can find it in me to draw them once I get there.

[BeefotronX]

I use both, as a strange holdover from when I was actually managing to update daily (grayscale weekdays, color Sundays)

Grayscale is faster. That's why I do it most of the time. I periodically make color strips, trying to some degree to put important plot moments in color, because color is prettier. I believe that periodic color is enough to help the reader imagine the rest of the strips in color.

[Uncaringmachine]

Um.......I just draw it, scan it, shrink it, and put it on my site. No color because I don't have photoshop, but I'm tinkering with the idea of doing Sundays in color, IF I can do a decent job with the paint program already on here. Are there any free paint programs on the web?

[Cope]

The GIMP is what I use. If nothing else, it'll let you save your black and white images as compressed PNGs and get the filesize way down.

[Legion]

I use colour to add some 'oomph' to what is otherwise, I'll freely admit, rather mediocre lineart. Also, I like the added conceptual freedom that colour gives you for highlighting little details.

Maybe if I start trying for a tri-weekly update schedule I'll switch to greyscale. But, to be honest, I find colouring quite quick and easy to do in my style. Of course, I don't shade anymore. And maybe that's more a comment on my (lack of) competance at coluring than anything else.

[MinekaC.]

B&w for me, since I'm one of those apparent loosers who draws in a anime-isq fashion. As such, I try to emulate the style, which means in black and white with only chapter covers/special pages being coloured.
Though, it's also because in b&w I can get away with alot more in regards to neglecting backgrounds then I could if I coloured, also my update schedule has me cramped for time, so trying to colour, then shade, then highlight all the various pages would be very time consuming.
*shugs* Not to mention, if it was coloured it would detract from the emotions I try to convey via the characters expressions. But that's just my two cents.

[Stinkywigfiddle]

I prefer to work in black and white, with my comics. I'm not sure, I just like the way it looks. Suits my mood, I guess.
If I did color I would want to use traditional material, and that would just take forever and I would never update.

[Kilre]

The GIMP is what I use. If nothing else, it'll let you save your black and white images as compressed PNGs and get the filesize way down.

All hail the GIMP.

[Elegant Gremlin]

Colour... because with my comic, there isn't much to look at, so might as well make it colour.

Also, colour is the only thing that allows me to make new puppets. If I used grayscale/B&W, it would look strange.

[McDuffies]

I prefere black/white comics, I find that there's little more impressive things than black/white contrast. Also, colour hides the line and inking quality, which is to me one of basic elements of comics. I like economy, so achieving something with simple lines instead of with colours and tones, for me is a plus.
This is, of course, if artist is actually a good inker.

I do my comics mostly in black and white. I'm not a very good colourist, but that's not the reason. Rather, it's backward: because of my love of black/white expression, I never really put effort to learn colour, instead I rather concentrate on learning various black/white techniques.
I contemplated colouring my current comics, but realised that they aren't a very good ground for colouring. They are made with very little space left for colour, and they wouldn't add anything significant to them.

[Moonshadow]

I suppose I left out a category though. Are there no screentone freaks here?

Actually, after chapter 2, I've been using digital screens for my b/w pages, but I always think of them as b-w/greyscale because, after compression, they look like a textured grey to me (and I'm working in the greyscale space and printing as b/w orders).

[Guyford]

Greyscale for me. I'd like to do color, but I don't have the extra time to figure out how all the colors in an image would go together. If I can get the time it takes for me to color a greyscale image down, I'll try to make the switch though.