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comic strip on hold
Sunday, February 5, 2006

I've made a descision to put my strip on hold for a while..This is due to the fact that the way the last few looked were awfull. I think what I have to do is draw it smaller or take them to Kinko's and get them reduced..I think my main problem is I draw them like I would for newspaper and comicbooks, not computers..completely different animals. computers tend to magnify the slightest imperfection whereas reproduction in comics many flaws are hidden in the finished product..so I'll still do sepia stuff and inkwork and try to figure out how to get my strip to look like I want it..Anybody out there got any idea's I can try I'm open to them..see ya

COMMENTS

Monday, February 6, 2006 8:39 AM

GUIDEWRITER


Also, your strength is really in drawing the characters with faces up close. So the close-up panels tend to look great, while the ones with a bunch of people all in one frame showing their full bodies doesn't work as well, as you mention, when viewed on the computer because you can see it so closely, but would probably work just fine printed.

Monday, February 6, 2006 8:18 AM

GUIDEWRITER


"It can reduce the dimensions cleanly but remember when you reduce something you will loose detail. This is one reason why reducing text often produces poor results."

It's not just a matter of detail / text, though that is an issue. It's a matter of the half-toning patterns which become completely messed up when resizing via bitmap-based programs such as Photoshop.

Creating his images as vector images would be WAY too much work. To resize them for web view, the simplest method would be to optically reduce them as he's suggested, at a place like Kinko's.

Mike, you might consider creating the strip in a more conventional comic book format, ie, portrait instead of landscape, though I simply love the newspaper strip feel. Or you may just do that reducing thing at Kinkos and keep your current format...

Or you may tackle the project as a longer term project, skip the web viewing altogether, and get a ton of strips printed at once through an online print-on-demand publisher.


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