Black or white (or anyother color I guess)

SergeXIII · Post by **SergeXIII** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 8:18 pm

What color do use for the background for your cells ie. the "empty space"?

I always go with black. I dunno, dark colors there kinda make me feel like the cells are more so connected then when I see bright ones.

I feel Brian Clevenger's 8-Bit Theater does this the best.

What do you guys/gals use?

Anywherebuthere · Post by **Anywherebuthere** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 8:47 pm

White

If you've ever been to ND, you'll know it's NOTHING but white in the winter.

Cope · Post by **Cope** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 8:52 pm

White if it's daytime, black if it's night.

Yeee-up, that's chromatic complexity for you.

EmergencyExit · Post by **EmergencyExit** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 8:58 pm

White for my BW comic, whatever the colour of the nearest wall is for my coloured one (like if the walls are blue some panels will have that blue as a back and nothing else, like the wall consumed the entire background).

Rianeva · Post by **Rianeva** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 9:21 pm

I use black, though I might switch to dark green. It helps the comic fit with my site design. I'd make it transparent, but the font I use for lettering is anti-aliased.

Swiftbow · Post by **Swiftbow** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 10:11 pm

Heh, I use white cause otherwise I'd have to use Photoshop to erase around *everything* (b&w scans).

Though, if I had a choice, I'd probably pick a darker color. They give a kind of blending sense, or something like that.

Yeahduff · Post by **Yeahduff** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 10:18 pm

Backgrounds, man.

ideally.

Jackhass · Post by **Jackhass** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 11:05 pm

For the spaces in between panels? White...more out of laziness than any artistic choice...one less thing I have to fill in.

CapitanG · Post by **CapitanG** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 12:37 am

Black, but that's more because it covers up the fact that I can't draw good panels.

-Rain- · Post by **-Rain-** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 2:17 am

White...it is easier on my eyes... and because, someday, I will make some prints of it, if just for my own enjoyment (always finding ways of saving resources...I sometimes print some pages at home for my relatives. If I used black or colour between the panels I would spend so much ink

).

Sput · Post by **Sput** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 3:43 am

black. my comic is consistantly done in no more than 3 colours per page though.

Jops · Post by **Jops** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 4:11 am

full black!

Alschroeder · Post by **Alschroeder** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 8:59 am

I do it in the background color of the particular story we're in. Each of the stories on my site has a different color.

Just call me a rugged individualist.---Al

Warofwinds · Post by **Warofwinds** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 9:08 am

The sky, depending on time, season, weather and mood. That, or I have one open panel and continue bg into the empty space.

Dotty · Post by **Dotty** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 9:46 am

White or crosshatching. I try to get a backround into every panel though. Comics without backrounds just look so goddamn bland.

GO FLOATING IN VOID! WOO!

Vorticus · Post by **Vorticus** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 9:53 am

I have backgrounds on my comics whenever possible. For panel dividers I use black unless the background is very dark.

Risky · Post by **Risky** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 1:24 pm

Usually my panels are separated by black, occassionally I experiment with other things like one open panel, insets, gradients, etc. The panels themselves have backgrounds obviously (though that wasn't the question).

Webkilla · Post by **Webkilla** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 3:41 pm

white, but the panel-BGs have here of late been very black/darkish...

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 4:46 pm

White, unless I'm feeling energetic.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 4:50 pm

Space around frames? White, usually.
Black is used when you want a dark, grim page. My problem with black is, it tends to make a mess when content of frames is black too, so you're not sure where the border of the frame is supposed to be. Strange, noone thought of making white borders on pages with black background.
I've also seen yellowish colour for comics that mimic some old, golden-age comics "Flick". I don't remember seeing any other colour used.
Thinking about it, colours like red or yellow would be too distracting. Imagine a screeming red wallpaper, you wouldn't enjoy sitting in that room, eh? Light blue would probably work, or any other light shade of colour.