July 4th, 2005
Cool Find Today
Krishna Sadasivam, (hope I spelled it right, I’m too lazy to look) has put up a little video of how he inks his strip, PC WEENIES. Link to the video, HERE.
I’ve often lamented on going more digital with Yirmumah to save time, but it always seems I can ink WAY faster with actual pens, and my hand is just trained to nail the line thicknesses and crap now. DAMN YOU KRISHNA! Now he has me in a paperless mood again. It’ll never happen, but still….. a boy can dream.
This also reminds me that my old links page got wiped out when I switched formats, and links to his site are gone… hmmm… I need to fix that. I’ll start adding more links to the main page link tab as I come across friends I’ve neglected.
July 4th, 2005 at 11:57 am
The thing I’ve always noticed about cartoonists debating on going digital that occasionally seals the deal is the loss of the ability to sell the original art if they get in a tight spot. But of course, if you were just inking on le computer, it wouldn’t really be an issue, I suppose. Oh well, personally I find it refreshing to see an internet artist who still does things old school. Sometimes I think that too much emphasis is put on what you CAN do with a computer. Personally it just feels that when things are drawn by hand and scanned in that it just has a little more life for me. Or even done on a tablet for that matter. I guess I’m just an old fashioned fewl.
July 4th, 2005 at 1:42 pm
Indeed– I feel naked if I go without physically inking the work.
July 4th, 2005 at 2:00 pm
I wish I could ink the traditional way, and get the results I want. Purists are gonna hate me on this, but I feel like I have more control with the tablet than a brush or a pen. But, hey, as long as it works, right?
-K
July 4th, 2005 at 5:49 pm
Im sure if I practiced I could go all digital. I tend to spend way too much time tweeking in photoshop though. I hate that!
July 5th, 2005 at 7:10 am
No! Please DJ, no digital ‘inking’! Your traditional comic-style inking - so neat and precise - was what made me take notice of this strip in the first place. You can look at Yirmumah and briefly forget you’re looking at a computer screen…
July 5th, 2005 at 9:22 pm
You don’t even have to digitally ink things the way he does it, that’s just ONE way of doing it. If you wanted to, you could make your drawings into custom shapes within Photoshop, and then choose the custom shape tool, and find the custom shape you just created, then create the custom shape of the drawing that you just made into a custom shape, and the lines will all come out nice and clean, without having to seperately ink each individual line digitally. That’s just one way that I have found of doing it, and if that custom shape tends to drag Photoshop down too much, then delete it, because you can ALWAYS create it again in Photoshop. as long as you have the original drawing saved on your computer. But yeah, I definitely agree that manually inking a picture is alot easier than digitally doing it. I’ve done that many times on pictures that I’ve drawn in the past, and I like the feeling of finishing a picture by hand, verses just doing it all digitally, although it can be just as rewarding to do it all digitally. Where was I going with this statement? I DON’T FUCKING KNOW! Nevermind, keep doing what you’re doing, and try out the above mentioned technique as well, and see how well that works out for you.
July 6th, 2005 at 2:06 pm
Anyone play with Illustrator CS2? It has the ability to take your sketches (penciled or inked) and convert ‘em directly to vector format (like Adobe Streamline used to way back when). I haven’t fully played with it as yet, but from what little I have tried out, it has a lot of potential - especially when it comes to scaling up your drawings for oversize prints, T-Shirts, et. al. I can also see Illustrator CS2 useful for coloring an inked drawing as well…
March 8th, 2008 at 11:56 am
I couldn’t understand some parts of this article Cool Find Today, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.
October 15th, 2008 at 4:20 am
прекрасное качество у фото, итересно на какой фотик фоторграфировали?
А так просто супер=) сдесь
October 29th, 2008 at 5:33 am
Ты че бредиш? Какой кризис=) Нас это не каснется это там пендосы в своей америке пусть переживают. А интернет он независим от окружающего мира. Только вот будет ли а нас бапки чтоб его оплачивать вот другой вопрос))))