Sprite comics are bad.
However, here's a good one:
http://www.disasterlabs.com/index.php?sec=chicanery
It's mostly Earthbound characters and Mr. T.
This is not to say that I am encouraging the proliferation of Sprite Comics, merely pointing out that some are quite good.
Umm... possible new comic.
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BeefotronX
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You are the Non. You must go now, and never return."
"1.Scan in high res 2.tweak with curves,levels or something to clean up the scan (or use channel mixer to remove blue pencil lines) 3.Add colour using a layer set to multiply. 4.Add wordbubbles and text as vector shapes. 5. Merge all layers. 6.resize to the web size. 7. Export/Save for Web" that's all I know about webcomicking.
"1.Scan in high res 2.tweak with curves,levels or something to clean up the scan (or use channel mixer to remove blue pencil lines) 3.Add colour using a layer set to multiply. 4.Add wordbubbles and text as vector shapes. 5. Merge all layers. 6.resize to the web size. 7. Export/Save for Web" that's all I know about webcomicking.
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Rkolter
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GAAAH!Phalanx wrote:The burned hand teaches best.
All the same, no one with an ounce of compassion will not tell a kid not to put his hand into the furnace anyway.
It's a triple-negative.
Crossfire: "Thank you! That explains it very nicely, and in a language that someone other than a physicist can understand..."
Denial is not falsification. You can't avoid a fact just because you don't like it.
"Data" is not the plural of "anecdote"
Sooooo...rkolter wrote:GAAAH!Phalanx wrote:The burned hand teaches best.
All the same, no one with an ounce of compassion will not tell a kid not to put his hand into the furnace anyway.
It's a triple-negative.
I should take my hand out of the furnace now or not? Or not not take it out?
*hand continues burning*
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Rkolter
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Leave it in there, I like my Kentucky fried Brockway extra crispy.brockway wrote:Sooooo...rkolter wrote:GAAAH!Phalanx wrote:The burned hand teaches best.
All the same, no one with an ounce of compassion will not tell a kid not to put his hand into the furnace anyway.
It's a triple-negative.
I should take my hand out of the furnace now or not? Or not not take it out?
*hand continues burning*
Crossfire: "Thank you! That explains it very nicely, and in a language that someone other than a physicist can understand..."
Denial is not falsification. You can't avoid a fact just because you don't like it.
"Data" is not the plural of "anecdote"
mmmm.... 17 herbs and spices......
Warren
Comics. Drawn poorly.
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It's grey, not gray. And it always has been.
Lauren's Wing - The fund for animal care
Comics. Drawn poorly.
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It's grey, not gray. And it always has been.
Lauren's Wing - The fund for animal care
Henry Tap Dancing Ford!! It's Fox McCloud!Turnsky wrote:Practice, practice is good..
'specially since pre-2003, i couldn't draw to save my life... now look at me..
Guuuhhhrrm, if I only had time to fire up that old N64.... :sighs:General Pepper wrote:We need your help, StarFox, the Lylat System is in peril!
Andross has declared war!!! ....
-- Ba-caw!!!
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Christwriter
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That realy, really bites. Especially when you spend a year working on artwork, find out about the site and go...three days after join-up is shut down.Cloakable wrote:O.K People my checklist is nearly done!:
Tolerable art... check
Comic drawn... check
Webpages created... check
Loaded to Keenspace... fumes
The Keenspace joining facility is down!
Does anyone know of another webcomic site that offers free hosting?
Yarps, I still think there ought to be SOME kind of way to have people who DON'T want thier account give it to someone who DOES. Especially now that join-up is down. You know, like the great Keenspace Account Exchange or something.
CW
"Remember that the definition of an adventure is someone else having a hell of a hard time a thousand miles away."
--Abbykat, NaNoWriMo participant '04
Coloring tutorial It's a little like coloring boot camp. Without the boots.
<a href="http://blueskunk.spiderforest.com">
</a>
<a href="http://www.nanowrimo.org"> NaNoWriMo </a> --for anyone who has ever aspired to write a novel. Insanity is also a requirement.
--Abbykat, NaNoWriMo participant '04
Coloring tutorial It's a little like coloring boot camp. Without the boots.
<a href="http://blueskunk.spiderforest.com">
</a><a href="http://www.nanowrimo.org"> NaNoWriMo </a> --for anyone who has ever aspired to write a novel. Insanity is also a requirement.
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Rkolter
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There was a lady who won the Illinois lottery several years ago. She wanted to be prepared so she didn't immediately run to cash the ticket. Instead she contacted accountants, lawyers, friends, family, etcetera. She prepped her home for sale, she rewrote her will, and so on.christwriter wrote:That realy, really bites. Especially when you spend a year working on artwork, find out about the site and go...three days after join-up is shut down.Cloakable wrote:O.K People my checklist is nearly done!:
Tolerable art... check
Comic drawn... check
Webpages created... check
Loaded to Keenspace... fumes
The Keenspace joining facility is down!
Does anyone know of another webcomic site that offers free hosting?
Yarps, I still think there ought to be SOME kind of way to have people who DON'T want thier account give it to someone who DOES. Especially now that join-up is down. You know, like the great Keenspace Account Exchange or something.
CW
The day the ticket was due to be turned in, she drove to the lottery, but blew a tire. When she got that fixed, she was caught in traffic. By the time she got to the place to turn in the lottery, the doors were locked.
She did not get to claim her winnings; by law her ticket had expired and the money went to the state.
The moral? Don't forget the last step until the last minute.
Crossfire: "Thank you! That explains it very nicely, and in a language that someone other than a physicist can understand..."
Denial is not falsification. You can't avoid a fact just because you don't like it.
"Data" is not the plural of "anecdote"
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Christwriter
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Well...
Not exactly what I did...
I spend a year teaching myself how to draw because I was going to spend the money on a server and create my own website. It never occored to me that there were free webhosts out there.
A friend corrected me and I came here and I sware i almost wigged out. Better than christmas...all I had to do was learn HTML and draw. I'd have a free space!!!
And then I clicked join...
And it wasn't working.
I knew about the site for two whole lovely, enerjetic days.
My brain needs an overhaul.
CW
Not exactly what I did...
I spend a year teaching myself how to draw because I was going to spend the money on a server and create my own website. It never occored to me that there were free webhosts out there.
A friend corrected me and I came here and I sware i almost wigged out. Better than christmas...all I had to do was learn HTML and draw. I'd have a free space!!!
And then I clicked join...
And it wasn't working.
I knew about the site for two whole lovely, enerjetic days.
My brain needs an overhaul.
CW
"Remember that the definition of an adventure is someone else having a hell of a hard time a thousand miles away."
--Abbykat, NaNoWriMo participant '04
Coloring tutorial It's a little like coloring boot camp. Without the boots.
<a href="http://blueskunk.spiderforest.com"></a>
<a href="http://www.nanowrimo.org"> NaNoWriMo </a> --for anyone who has ever aspired to write a novel. Insanity is also a requirement.
--Abbykat, NaNoWriMo participant '04
Coloring tutorial It's a little like coloring boot camp. Without the boots.
<a href="http://blueskunk.spiderforest.com">
</a><a href="http://www.nanowrimo.org"> NaNoWriMo </a> --for anyone who has ever aspired to write a novel. Insanity is also a requirement.
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Just be patient, man.
Keep drawing your comics, build you website, and when signups are ready again, you'll be ready to start right away.
I seriously don't understand you guys's rush to start your comics, really. Some people here waited six months to get an account, and part of the problem KS is having now is due to the number of accounts with none or few comics on them.
Keep drawing your comics, build you website, and when signups are ready again, you'll be ready to start right away.
I seriously don't understand you guys's rush to start your comics, really. Some people here waited six months to get an account, and part of the problem KS is having now is due to the number of accounts with none or few comics on them.
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There's a lot of ways you can fix your site after all:
1. Find a local host. You'll have to pay for it but if you place an add from google (or somewhere, I'm not sure of procedure) you'll cover at least part of expenses. But you won't get automatic update so you'll have to do it manually or tamper with AutoKeenLite.
2. Set site on one of free servers. It'll come with a load of popup-adds, though, so ask people to reccomend you better ones. Same for autoupdating as under 1.
3. DrunkDuck. It seems like they're good alternative.
1. Find a local host. You'll have to pay for it but if you place an add from google (or somewhere, I'm not sure of procedure) you'll cover at least part of expenses. But you won't get automatic update so you'll have to do it manually or tamper with AutoKeenLite.
2. Set site on one of free servers. It'll come with a load of popup-adds, though, so ask people to reccomend you better ones. Same for autoupdating as under 1.
3. DrunkDuck. It seems like they're good alternative.
... considering I got started on KS closing in on two years ago, thinking "Hey! I like drawing comics! And this site is free!" ... well, I've done a lot of growing since then. Especially art-wise (although I still have a LONG way to go with that). Just keep scribbling away, draw what you see, and eventually things'll start falling into place.
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Christwriter
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Well...I have to say that it IS a red flag, so to speak, to jump for an account before you have a good idea of characters, story direction or even a NAME. It also makes someone getting the account feel that it's gonna be over in a month...or two...and they gotta-gotta-gotta get going NOW because soon it's gonna go away...
And then they stop three pages into it and they realize...this isn't gonna go away. They're in it for a couple of years, if not longer...and most of them aren't willing to give up that kind of time...even though they don't have anything better to do.
But there's also a screaming drive to create something before it goes away completely. You see something that creates an idea, and the idea rolls around in your head for so long that you either have to get it out or go crazy. And you want somplace to put it so it doesn't get messed up, and you want someone to look at it and go "Wow...that's nice" so you know it was a good idea not to go crazy after all.
CW
And then they stop three pages into it and they realize...this isn't gonna go away. They're in it for a couple of years, if not longer...and most of them aren't willing to give up that kind of time...even though they don't have anything better to do.
But there's also a screaming drive to create something before it goes away completely. You see something that creates an idea, and the idea rolls around in your head for so long that you either have to get it out or go crazy. And you want somplace to put it so it doesn't get messed up, and you want someone to look at it and go "Wow...that's nice" so you know it was a good idea not to go crazy after all.
CW
"Remember that the definition of an adventure is someone else having a hell of a hard time a thousand miles away."
--Abbykat, NaNoWriMo participant '04
Coloring tutorial It's a little like coloring boot camp. Without the boots.
<a href="http://blueskunk.spiderforest.com"></a>
<a href="http://www.nanowrimo.org"> NaNoWriMo </a> --for anyone who has ever aspired to write a novel. Insanity is also a requirement.
--Abbykat, NaNoWriMo participant '04
Coloring tutorial It's a little like coloring boot camp. Without the boots.
<a href="http://blueskunk.spiderforest.com">
</a><a href="http://www.nanowrimo.org"> NaNoWriMo </a> --for anyone who has ever aspired to write a novel. Insanity is also a requirement.
Yeah it would be great.christwriter wrote: Yarps, I still think there ought to be SOME kind of way to have people who DON'T want thier account give it to someone who DOES. Especially now that join-up is down. You know, like the great Keenspace Account Exchange or something.
I got my account from a guy that stopped after the first page. (that was breaking the 4th wall, BTW)
But the problem with such a system is:
It would be needed when keenspace is having problems, and if it was automatic, it would be likely to suffer from the problems likewise.
If it wasn't automatic, or at least separated from keenspace- like "exchange list", it would require the people wiling to resign from they accounts to actually go and look for it.
It's rare to find someone think "I'm too lazy to work on my comics... oh I know, I'll look for someone who want's to take it."
You are the Non. You must go now, and never return."
"1.Scan in high res 2.tweak with curves,levels or something to clean up the scan (or use channel mixer to remove blue pencil lines) 3.Add colour using a layer set to multiply. 4.Add wordbubbles and text as vector shapes. 5. Merge all layers. 6.resize to the web size. 7. Export/Save for Web" that's all I know about webcomicking.
"1.Scan in high res 2.tweak with curves,levels or something to clean up the scan (or use channel mixer to remove blue pencil lines) 3.Add colour using a layer set to multiply. 4.Add wordbubbles and text as vector shapes. 5. Merge all layers. 6.resize to the web size. 7. Export/Save for Web" that's all I know about webcomicking.
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McDuffies
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Don't tell me you erased that comic! It would be against all you believe in!YarpsDat wrote:Yeah it would be great.christwriter wrote: Yarps, I still think there ought to be SOME kind of way to have people who DON'T want thier account give it to someone who DOES. Especially now that join-up is down. You know, like the great Keenspace Account Exchange or something.
I got my account from a guy that stopped after the first page. (that was breaking the 4th wall, BTW)