They do at folk festivals here in Oz. There’s the owls section and the fowls section. Someone always ends up in the wrong campsite, but generally it helps people to get along.
That seems true of a lot of people. Me? I get crazy baffled by about 10 pm these days. 4 am, I can think and get a lot done. Very weird.
I always know when I absolutely have to quit working late at night even when the job HAS to be finished. It’s about the time that I no longer just randomly assume there’s somebody in the room with me, but actually start to hear far off conversations. If I wait any longer than that, I wake up at my desk.
Greg, you need a recliner at your workstation/bench/desk/whateveryacallit, and wear a nice pair of flannels when working at home. Makes crashing and getting to work a lot easier. 🙂 Just put a cube fridge by it for your end table and a microwave on the other side and you are so set… (serious nightowl that married a serious morning person and we didn’t know it for 4 months… quiet hours are between about 3-5 am when we are both asleep)
I used to have a little Mountain Dew fridge that I won from them here in the studio. It burned out eventually, but it was fun to have. Better, though, that I get up and go get my sodas. Some days, I don’t get any other exercise.
Not today. Went to the skatepark for a couple of hours. WORN… OUT… NOW.
I color everything for this website in Photoshop, although any program that’ll save your files as a .jpg will work, I think.
As for having a free website, you might want to go with the Social Media sites- Some cartoonists have tried using Facebook to showcase their cartoons. Others use Tumblr, I think, but I don’t recall if that’s free to set up. I pay just a little for the domain name ‘hubriscomics.com’ and a little more for hiring somebody to help me do stuff to set up my site, but the cost are offset by the fact that I can sell ad space on hubriscomics.com. If I were posting my Hubris cartoons on Facebook every day, there’d be very little way to get the work to pay me.
I suppose I should say, too, that if you like, I can post some of your cartoons here for free on a Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday, and then you can see what kind of response you get.
Okay. I’m trying to make comic books, but the main thing is just coloring. My program is Microsoft’s “paint” I would copy and paste my picture/comic but of course it couldn’t tell where my lines were. If I did it with color pencil it wouldn’t look as clean. I’ve tried drawing my comics on the computer, but it takes about twenty minutes to draw one panel, and it still doesn’t look as good as when I draw it with pencil. I’ve come to the conclusion that my comics would look better black and white if I had no way to do it without using an art medium.
I’m not familiar with Paint, but there’s probably a way to isolate just the white areas of the comic page and color them without interfering with your black lines. And you’re right- scanning colored pencil art always looks wonky unless you’re really, really good at photoshop cleanup.
The general idea is this: You need a scan of your black & white art- no graytones if possible. Then you convert that bitmap file into an RGB file to add color to. Then you either isolate the areas to color, or create a layer ‘under’ your blackline art to color on. Then you save the file as an RGB 72 dpi file that’ll go onto a website you have prepared to upload it to.
I’ve recognized your email address when you first posted. I know you’re here in town. Tell your dad that you guys need to come by the house and I can show you both how the whole process works. Plus, the house next door is going up for sale soon. Is your dad still looking to move into this area? That’d be cool, you guys next door!
Iffin you make sure all your areas are ‘closed’ (no line gaposis) on some programs you can do a flood fill and put your step tolerance up enough to clean up most of your line issues as you go. So as you color in you get rid of all the weirdities of your lines…. I’m using Paintshop Pro and at this time of year they have sales on it…. my .00002 cents worth
Yes.
Yes yes YES.
I couldn’t agree more, which is why we should designate camping grounds not by their capacity, but by the time that people wake up :V
They do at folk festivals here in Oz. There’s the owls section and the fowls section. Someone always ends up in the wrong campsite, but generally it helps people to get along.
This is why we have “quiet hours”.
And then there’s those people that go to bed at 2 AM and get up at 6 AM…
Then complain to you that they don’t get enough sleep.
I get to bed around 10 and get up around 4:30 and yet still complain bitterly. So I get the best of all worlds, I reckon!
I’d rather be going to BED at 5am, then waking up at 5am.
That seems true of a lot of people. Me? I get crazy baffled by about 10 pm these days. 4 am, I can think and get a lot done. Very weird.
I always know when I absolutely have to quit working late at night even when the job HAS to be finished. It’s about the time that I no longer just randomly assume there’s somebody in the room with me, but actually start to hear far off conversations. If I wait any longer than that, I wake up at my desk.
Greg, you need a recliner at your workstation/bench/desk/whateveryacallit, and wear a nice pair of flannels when working at home. Makes crashing and getting to work a lot easier. 🙂 Just put a cube fridge by it for your end table and a microwave on the other side and you are so set… (serious nightowl that married a serious morning person and we didn’t know it for 4 months… quiet hours are between about 3-5 am when we are both asleep)
Don’t forget about #1 & #2… gotta do those! Plus dispose of the offending material.
Goes without saying that is the only one short of having to get more supplies for the fridge that you DO have to roust for. Only drawback….
I used to have a little Mountain Dew fridge that I won from them here in the studio. It burned out eventually, but it was fun to have. Better, though, that I get up and go get my sodas. Some days, I don’t get any other exercise.
Not today. Went to the skatepark for a couple of hours. WORN… OUT… NOW.
I don’t get it. What’s a 5 am?
How do you color and publish your comics? and where can you make a website for free?
I color everything for this website in Photoshop, although any program that’ll save your files as a .jpg will work, I think.
As for having a free website, you might want to go with the Social Media sites- Some cartoonists have tried using Facebook to showcase their cartoons. Others use Tumblr, I think, but I don’t recall if that’s free to set up. I pay just a little for the domain name ‘hubriscomics.com’ and a little more for hiring somebody to help me do stuff to set up my site, but the cost are offset by the fact that I can sell ad space on hubriscomics.com. If I were posting my Hubris cartoons on Facebook every day, there’d be very little way to get the work to pay me.
Hope that helps a bit.
I suppose I should say, too, that if you like, I can post some of your cartoons here for free on a Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday, and then you can see what kind of response you get.
Okay. I’m trying to make comic books, but the main thing is just coloring. My program is Microsoft’s “paint” I would copy and paste my picture/comic but of course it couldn’t tell where my lines were. If I did it with color pencil it wouldn’t look as clean. I’ve tried drawing my comics on the computer, but it takes about twenty minutes to draw one panel, and it still doesn’t look as good as when I draw it with pencil. I’ve come to the conclusion that my comics would look better black and white if I had no way to do it without using an art medium.
I’m not familiar with Paint, but there’s probably a way to isolate just the white areas of the comic page and color them without interfering with your black lines. And you’re right- scanning colored pencil art always looks wonky unless you’re really, really good at photoshop cleanup.
The general idea is this: You need a scan of your black & white art- no graytones if possible. Then you convert that bitmap file into an RGB file to add color to. Then you either isolate the areas to color, or create a layer ‘under’ your blackline art to color on. Then you save the file as an RGB 72 dpi file that’ll go onto a website you have prepared to upload it to.
I’ve recognized your email address when you first posted. I know you’re here in town. Tell your dad that you guys need to come by the house and I can show you both how the whole process works. Plus, the house next door is going up for sale soon. Is your dad still looking to move into this area? That’d be cool, you guys next door!
Ok.thx!
Iffin you make sure all your areas are ‘closed’ (no line gaposis) on some programs you can do a flood fill and put your step tolerance up enough to clean up most of your line issues as you go. So as you color in you get rid of all the weirdities of your lines…. I’m using Paintshop Pro and at this time of year they have sales on it…. my .00002 cents worth