I spent much of the evening playing with my new digital stylus and sketch pad, and I think I've learned enough of the basics to put out a half-way decent looking episode of "Bear With Me" using it. So far, I've learned to do line drawings, and tonight, I was playing with fill-in color. I had penciled in a rough draft, and scanned it in last night
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I've been aware of Lynn Johnson's work for some time. Not only does her artwork rock, she's one of the few cartoonists that age her characters convincingly.
Lar Desousa does some excellent digital art/coloring work on the strip with which he collaborates with Ryan Sohmer: "Least I Could Do" (http://www.leasticoulddo.com).
I have a long way to go, but I'm having fun.
Thanks again!
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Apparently you're not even having to deal with layers ... the system is more direct than I had thought.
Looking forward to seeing what kinds of amazing color effects you'll discover.
As an army pal of mine used to say - Go, Rembrandt !!
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jamesbeary does make an interesting observation: He LIKES the hand-colored look of the strip, and I'd like to keep that, if possible. I may have to play with the paper "texture" or the "brushes" that I use.
More playtime!
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'Texture' and 'brushes' can be really nifty tools. Once (by accident of course) I impressed the hell out of a bunch of grad students by selecting the 'John Singer Sargent' brush and dabbling away in a fit of frustration.
That's probably proof that it pays to steal from the best.
Have fun !!
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