"Bear With Me" goes digital

[bruinwi]

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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[jamesbeary]

There are lots of beautiful comics that are digitally colored. the one I consider to be the standard-bearer is the for better or for worst sunday comics by Lynn Johnson. check her website, http://www.fborfw.com and check out the sunday comics. very well done and not very distracting or too vivid. It is all entirely done on a computer.

Their black and white artwork are very well done with shading and all that where needed and not more than that.

You will find the sweet spot on your excellent comic. I love it. Keep it up. A year after doing that you would find yourself doing more sophisacted work than you did, but I still love the crayoned in coloring, thats really your "signature" point of the Bear with Me, which made it stand out though other will critise it for looking so amaturish and childish. Add what you think will work but keep things consistent. Thats the key, consistency in using colors and all that. Again check out the for better or for worse for some ideas, as well as others too.

[bruinwi]

Thanks for the support and advice.

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!