I forgot I even had this LJ *sheepish grin*.

I'm somewhat surprised that LJ still is even barely relevant in the US, to be honest.  I guess I probably need a TGD-centric FaceBook account these days.

Anyway!  TGD is back up, and it takes forever for me to do comic strips... again.  The time always decreases as time goes on, but there really is a minimum amount of time that is physically required for you to do a multiple panel, full-color comic without using copy-paste.  Not to say that copy-paste isn't damn useful (many very popular comics utilize copy-paste or have utilized it regularly in the past), but I don't like using it for character drawings because I feel it makes things look too static.

Anywho, got little sleep last night, but gots stuff to do tonight.  New strip on Friday.

My classes kind of put a crimp in my schedule. Not that they've really been hard so far, but they're just that extra little something that sits at the back of my brain, nagging me to pay attention to it.

Couple things drawing-wise that I've done recently:

A little preview of how 8/31 might look, I did some test inking and coloring of a previous comic:



And a little sketch I did from a Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex screengrab



That's all for now. Check out the new comic Friday

Lately I've been trying out new tools for drawing and new methods of doing the strip.

I'm fully aware that some really good strips do everything in photoshop (afaik this includes strips such as QC and PA, amongst a zillion other less known ones), but a few things bother me about PS.

1, the brush tools seem to be rather unintelligent (as opposed to the brushes in Illustrator or Manga Studio 3).

2, raster vs vector graphics. Having things in vector format allows for nice resizing, not to mention pathing that allows for easier coloring.

3, print/web dichotomies. Largely this seems to be a moot issue if you learn the products right.

Honestly, I wish I was a better inker in real life, but I'm more of a sketcher/penciler in that realm than an inker.

I was playing a little bit with live-trace in Illustrator, and have concluded that it's a pretty cool tool if your original inkings don't bite :)

So, I have some learning/working/whatever to do. Unfortunately, my class starts next monday, so I won't have quite as much time, but I'll do my best to keep improving!

And hopefully that was spelled right.

Welcome to the the the...er...

Welcome to The Geeks' Domain's Livejournals'... er...

Well, hopefully you know why you're here.

Anyway, this is where I will talk about things that aren't just status updates or strip notes for The Geeks' Domain

To start with, I was reading a column over at ComixTalk called "Why Do Online Comics" by a guy named Iain Hemp, who I am not familiar with (and who is apparently on leave at the moment).

Anyway, before he left he put up a post of interesting quotes he'd culled from his last 3 years of doing the column. While many are amusing, interesting, insightful, and such, one stuck out at me:

"But you, friend, are a webcomic creator. Webcomics are fighting forrespect from people who generally participate in the print comicsindustry, whether it be readers or creators, and that print comicsindustry is thought of as 'for kids' by the general populace. No othermedium of mass entertainment I can think of has such a massive lack ofunderstanding regarding its potential, and you're involved in trying tobecome the red-headed stepchild of that medium.

Are we nuts?!"