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April 08, 2004

Just All Over the Place Today, Aren't I...

As I've mentioned, I have two rats.

One has learned how to open the cage, but not how to get down from the coffee table. He likes to spastically urinate over everything he skitters across.

One has learned how to get down from the coffee table, but not how to open the cage. He likes to chew wires.

Fortunately, my rats have yet to master the fine art of the calculated conspiracy. I'll know the instant when they do, because that'll be the day I wake up to piss-drenched comics and books, and every wire in the house gnawed completely through.

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I love them. But they are bastards. And they make it very hard.

In other news, I've got a quick poll for you.

While waiting for Webcomics Nation to go live, I've begun fooling around with the comic I plan on sticking on there. Tell me which method of "coloring" you prefer.


Option one: None. Kind of sparse, but easiest.


Option two: Grayscale. Better definition and more meaningful light and shadow, also great for hiding mistakes. But sort of dull.


Option three: Goofy sort of sepia tone. Weirdly luminous. Also kind of distracting.

Input appreciated.

Posted by Spike at April 8, 2004 07:20 AM

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Comments

 

Rock the grayscale! It's sweet, bro!

Posted by Crack at April 8, 2004 08:46 AM
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I like both the greyscale and the sepia, but in deference to your actual gender, I will not call you "bro".

Posted by Lisa Jonte at April 8, 2004 09:00 AM
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I vote for grayscale. The sepia lacks punch, and the black and white...eh. Not that I don't love your inkin'. ;)

Posted by Hope at April 8, 2004 09:01 AM
24.13.12.170

 

Grayscale. Also, can I touch his nipple?

Posted by Nina at April 8, 2004 10:57 AM
200.155.196.204

 

YOU MAY NOT.

Also, I'm reading your comic, Nina. Better not leave me haning after one week. It's about time y'started, and I wanna see you finish it. Don't make me mail you a grenade, woman.

Posted by spike at April 8, 2004 11:45 AM
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Grayscale.
And mail her a Wacom tablet, instead. Hers went tits up.

Posted by John at April 8, 2004 12:22 PM
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Greyscale, if anyone cares. Same as above for the sepia, and wondering what Matt would do if you went to black and white... :D

Posted by spookable at April 8, 2004 12:37 PM
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Actually, this is the only comic I'll probably have online that I did the whole workload for. Matt's been making pathetic gurgling noises all throughout Sparkneedle, he needs a break before he burns out.

It was a necessary thing. I don't want to abuse his generosity, and I need to learn how to do all this for myself. Two birds with one stone.

Not that he's not hovering over me while I muddle my way through. He's got this very draftsman-ish approach to coloring comics; layers upon layers and heaps of masks and so on. He practically howled in pain when he saw that I routinely kept my layer count to two...

Posted by spike at April 8, 2004 12:54 PM
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Try doing colored lines and lighting effects in your precious two layers, ya primitive. -You'll- howl in pain every time you find you have to go back and change something that's inextricably entangled with stuff you'd rather not re-do.

Posted by Matt at April 8, 2004 01:13 PM
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Grayscale. It looks great that way.

Posted by Rich at April 8, 2004 01:55 PM
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I hear ya both. I can't afford a big ol' program like Photoshop, so I work with Photoimpact, which can -allmost- do everything Photoshop can... meaning that I can find a convoluted way of doing something I should be able to do at a button click. So it's only really feasible to work with a few peusdo-layers... which is a pain in the ass when I try to do something like Matt mentioned...

But I whine...

Posted by spookable at April 8, 2004 09:32 PM
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Do the grey. And, if I may ask, what is this comic and will it be generally accessible to the cheap/penniless viewing public?

Posted by The Bloated Camel at April 8, 2004 11:41 PM
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If things go according to plan, after WCN launches and everything gets situated, it'll update daily for the first week, then switch to weekly. It'll be on the MT format: latest page free, pay for the archives. So, if you are crafty, it -can- be free. Otherwise, I'll probably charge the same for it as the other MT single-creator sites: $1.95 a month, $1.00 if you're already a MT subscriber.

If I get enough subscribers to make it worthwhile, I may add a second comic to the site. but that's chicken-counting, pipe dream territory.

If this were a perfect world, it would be 100% free, and my adoring public (AHAHAHA) would shower me with monetary appreciation via those little Paypal tip jars. But seriously, hard as I'm working on this comic, I think it's worth paying for.

Posted by spike at April 9, 2004 06:37 AM
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I'm going to go against the grain and say that the sepis tone looks the most dynamic. Mark agrees.

Posted by Petra at April 9, 2004 10:34 AM
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Sorry, I can't type in the morning. I obviously meant sepia.

Posted by Petra at April 9, 2004 10:35 AM
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Voting sepia.

Posted by Wagner at April 9, 2004 11:13 PM
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Thanks for voting guys. I think I'm gonna go with the grayscale....

Posted by spike at April 11, 2004 12:25 AM
68.20.182.1

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