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Wow, today was a long day.
I bought these non-reproduction blue pencils. The idea is that you can pencil in the blue lines, then just ink over, without the need to erase the lines, because a scanner won't pick them up. A wonderful idea in concept, because I hate erasing. It takes too long to get all the pencil marks. So, I was TRYING to save time.
In theory, the pencil should work... In theory.
However, the scanner picked up lots of the pencil, meaning the scans of my drawings were all dirty looking with tons of stray pencil marks. I was going to erase the lines and then re-scan, but guess what, this pencil I got, doesn't erase!
So, I had two choices, redraw the comics in regular pencil, re-ink and erase them, OR... go in and clean them up manually during the coloring process via my art program. I chose the latter, thinking it would take less time.
It didn't.
The comics from start to finish took about eight hours!
Then I spent the rest of the night working on a story for the newspaper.
I hate Sundays.
Thanks for allowing me to bitch. I promsise a more entertaining post next time.Labels: girl and monster, sundays suck, the drawing life, todd and penguin |
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just to let you know, those pencils only don't show up on copiers, not scanners. they predate scanners by a long time.
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Well, I used a different brand before, which did not show up in the scanner. However, the store I went to didn't have that brand, so I had to try another one... to much different results.
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Name: Blogger Dad
Home: Florida, United States
About Me: I was a reporter at a Florida newspaper, where I covered city politics and draw editorial comics. Now, I'm a Blogger Dad (click the link for my webpage - the blog on the bottom is for Todd and Penguin) in search of a job and attempting to write a book or four.
I'm also a cartoonist, how most of you know me, who draws Todd and Penguin, Taking Up Space and the occasional other titles, featured on KeenSpot.com.
I'm married (sorry, all you ladies interested in overweight guys who spend too much time drawing) and have a one year old son and two cats. Three of the above mentioned poop way too much!
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just to let you know, those pencils only don't show up on copiers, not scanners. they predate scanners by a long time.