Should my comicpages be in color or grayscale, or toned?

Prettysenshi · Post by **Prettysenshi** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 7:52 pm

I'm always experimenting with my webcomic in terms of art style. One can call me inconsistant, if you will

. Anyway, I got some new tones and was wondering if I should use them in my comic.

http://arcadia.comicgenesis.com If you go to my comic now, my art was done using a mouse, and CG'ed on the computer.

http://arcadia.comicgenesis.com/d/20050302.html With this page, I scanned it, and it was done in Grayscale.

I never toned any of my pages, but still give me your opinion on whether I should try it out.

So, with that said, which style to you think is better. CG, grayscale, or in your personal opinion, toned?

Mirage_mail · Post by **Mirage_mail** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 8:04 pm

I'd like to see it in screentone, for comparison, but I think you should draw it then scan it, and try all three to see which one would be the best. The mouse drawn doesn't look too bad, but I prefer your hand drawn.

http://opera.com/digitone/
http://shounenaigo.keenspace.com/tone/floozy
http://psychobob.xepher.net/screentonez/

^.^ Here are some websites with free screentones. I used many of them myself on my first attempt at screentones.

And I truely think you should do the comic hand drawn, I always felt that some people are cheating their talents by using a mouse. (that or you can always buy a tablet. Wacoms are great! )

Prettysenshi · Post by **Prettysenshi** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 8:08 pm

mirage_mail wrote:I'd like to see it in screentone, for comparison, but I think you should draw it then scan it, and try all three to see which one would be the best. The mouse drawn doesn't look too bad, but I prefer your hand drawn.

http://opera.com/digitone/
http://shounenaigo.keenspace.com/tone/floozy
http://psychobob.xepher.net/screentonez/

^.^ Here are some websites with free screentones. I used many of them myself on my first attempt at screentones.

And I truely think you should do the comic hand drawn, I always felt that some people are cheating their talents by using a mouse. (that or you can always buy a tablet. Wacoms are great! )

I agree with you. I do draw better without a mouse, but sometimes I become lazy and decide just not to scan, which happens quite often. Thank you for the comment on prefer my scanned works. I get it alot, but it always feels nice.

Um, yeah, those sites for screentones are great. In fact, I went to the last one just today to get some tones, however, I had to convert all of the tones that I downloaded to .xcf files, b/c I use GIMP. I'm far to cheap to afford Photoshop

. I don't have money like that to spend. GIMP is still good though.

So, do you know anyway I can get tones that aren't Photoshop only?

Mirage_mail · Post by **Mirage_mail** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 8:10 pm

No clue whatsoever on the non-photoshop. I wasn't too fond of the look of GIMP personally, but I think if you google it, you might be able to find something good.

edit - ^.^ Here is the google list, hope you find something useful here!

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=screentones+GIMP

Prettysenshi · Post by **Prettysenshi** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 8:14 pm

mirage_mail wrote:No clue whatsoever on the non-photoshop. I wasn't too fond of the look of GIMP personally, but I think if you google it, you might be able to find something good.

edit - ^.^ Here is the google list, hope you find something useful here!

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=screentones+GIMP

Wow. Thank you.

Mirage_mail · Post by **Mirage_mail** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 8:19 pm

^.^ No problem. I like helping other webcomic artists. It's a big world, and it's hard to make it in it without a little help.

We all learn from each other. I hope you find something you could use...!

Shinyhugh · Post by **Shinyhugh** » Sun Jul 24, 2005 2:19 am

Emm 2 of those above links are broken...

But I liked the hand-drawn a lot better. I can't tell if it would look better coloured or not, but I thought the greyscale suited quite well.