In celebration of computer fixery...
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- Imperial Winter Developer
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The second version of the first panel of the Projector Club webcomic (it's v2 because v1 got killed halfway through when iTunes decided to implode my computer and corrupt the psd file)
I'd continue this and do the rest of the first comic, only it's 10 to 11, and sleep is needed for tomorrow. Why am I always more productive at night? Is it because I'm too tired to be bothered procrastinating?
I may have been admiring Megatokyo's art when I thought of this.
Incidentally, this first panel shows Alex, the club president/chairperson and the St. Lucia campus. I had to be careful so that she stood out against the background, but not so much it was obvious, not sure how well I managed that. Oh, and this being set in Britain, the sky is, as usual, overcast.
Oh, and I may drop The Last Flight of the Icarus, for these reasons:
1) The Projector Club is less depressing
2) The Projector Club is waaaay more fun to write and draw
3) I actually have a script (TLFI didn't. Any attempt to write one hit a writer's block the size of Wales)
4) I can get away with using greyscale for the P-Club (I couldn't in Icarus for plot reasons)
5) Drawing both in tandem (as was originally intended) may well prove near impossible with my current workload
Comments?
PS: I scaled it about the size it will actually be alongside the other five-six panels that make up the first comic
PPS: Oh, yeah, you guys won't know what the Projector Club actually is, will you? Basically, it's a parody comic. It shall be funny. Ok?
Needs more contrast still. Either that, or make the background alot less busy. The character really does get lost in the background. Backgrounds are supposed to be in the... well, the background. They should not really be eye catching. This background, while it looks good, doesn't really act as a background unfortunately, it just draws the eye towards it to much.Incidentally, this first panel shows Alex, the club president/chairperson and the St. Lucia campus. I had to be careful so that she stood out against the background, but not so much it was obvious, not sure how well I managed that. Oh, and this being set in Britain, the sky is, as usual, overcast.
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*wakes from his nap...*
Humm, needs thicker lines around the chracter... this will help bring him out from teh back drop... also, why are you lines all jaggi? what happened to alisisng? (PS can't even prononce that let alone spell it..)
I think you would be better off maybe just using blocks of colour for your backgrounds (well.. blocks of grey). Just use the pollygon lasso tool to slect the area and flood fill... will look much neater.
Maybe if I get home reasonably early Ill show you what i mean...
aGorm
Humm, needs thicker lines around the chracter... this will help bring him out from teh back drop... also, why are you lines all jaggi? what happened to alisisng? (PS can't even prononce that let alone spell it..)
I think you would be better off maybe just using blocks of colour for your backgrounds (well.. blocks of grey). Just use the pollygon lasso tool to slect the area and flood fill... will look much neater.
Maybe if I get home reasonably early Ill show you what i mean...
aGorm
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*can tell DZHIBRISH hasn't read the thread*
That's the full size version (I forgot to down-size it). The actual in-comic version will be about half that size at most, so the whole anti-ailising thing is fairly pointlessaGorm wrote:what happened to alisisng? (PS can't even prononce that let alone spell it..)
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- Imperial Winter Developer
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Proportion!
Check the size of his upper arm compared to the lower arm; especially considering the space needed for the hand. Also, your people tend to be stretched vertically. In my honest opinion, I don't think you have advanced far enough to be making stylistic distortions just yet; it looks like a proportion error rather then a stylistic choice.
Most recent image is much better then the earlier image, though (good perspective on the background of the last one - poke me on MSN and I'll show you a few more tricks).
Check the size of his upper arm compared to the lower arm; especially considering the space needed for the hand. Also, your people tend to be stretched vertically. In my honest opinion, I don't think you have advanced far enough to be making stylistic distortions just yet; it looks like a proportion error rather then a stylistic choice.
Most recent image is much better then the earlier image, though (good perspective on the background of the last one - poke me on MSN and I'll show you a few more tricks).
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