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 |