Whew!

KathleenJ · Post by **KathleenJ** » Fri Oct 12, 2001 3:27 am

Thank you! Yes, I am kind of a workaholic...glad it's appreciated. And I'm always secretly happy when people are jealous...wait, now it's not secret any more then, is it?
Hmm, sharpening them up might be the way to go...but I think a big part of the blurry illegibility is also the fact that they're just pencil and not inked. fixing those first ones up has been on my to do list for a long time.
Anyway, thank you!

Graylash · Post by **Graylash** » Fri Oct 12, 2001 5:27 am

I just wanted to give you a big "thumbs up" on your comic. The fact that you've updated every day since February is impressive. In fact, I'm a bit jealous.Also, your art on the first strips looks good to me. You just needed to hit the image with the "sharpen" tool (if you've got it) in your image editor.Anyway, keep it up.------------------
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TheFish · Post by **TheFish** » Sun Oct 14, 2001 4:54 am

That reminds me, I wanted to ask you what you use to ink the comics. Do you use professional tools, or just a normal pen? I actually know a lot of people who have chose the easier approach...------------------

KathleenJ · Post by **KathleenJ** » Sun Oct 14, 2001 8:46 am

99% of the time it's just the normal kind of pens. I use two - one of those nice smooth gel roller pens, and a cheap ballpoint pen for the really fine hatching and stuff. once in a while i've inked stuff with my Chinese bamboo brushes i use for painting, but i'm not too good at it.

Graylash · Post by **Graylash** » Tue Oct 16, 2001 3:32 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by kathleenJ:
99% of the time it's just the normal kind of pens. I use two - one of those nice smooth gel roller pens, and a cheap ballpoint pen for the really fine hatching and stuff.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Do you use regular black lead to pencil? I've been using blue colored lead (Pentel) because I don't have to erase (just jack up the contrast on the scan). I use Vision fine and Penstix fine to ink.The reason I ask is I tried using a Sakura Gell Roller to ink, but it kept skipping over my blue lines. I never tried using the gell pen over regular pencil. Just wondering if that's what you do.

KathleenJ · Post by **KathleenJ** » Tue Oct 16, 2001 10:39 am

I use normal mechanical pencil lead, either 2B or HB. I can't stand the non-mechanical pencils you have to sharpen. I'm pretty sure it's from Pentel. (pen check!) The pens I use are "uni-ball vision fine". The pens usually give me skipping trouble drawing over two things: pencil crayon and texturey watercolor paper. I'm not sure what kind of blue lead you have, but if it's made of the same stuff as pencil crayons instead of pencil lead, that's your problem.