UGH!
The art is done, scanned and cleaned up. But I have to postpone uploading the comic until tomorrow - though not for lack of effort!
Ah.....but I planned the fuggin' thing out for the use of proper word bubbles, thinking that I could make such things instead of using the old (and ugly) overlayed text n' lines bit. It seemed a simple thing for one to do. But Inkscape, the GIMP and trusty old Corel Photo-Paint have all screwed me to the bone over this in one way or another. It's getting to 11pm and my brain isn't working any better, so for the sake of quality I am going to wait until I can take another tackle at it tomorrow. Trust me, it would be disgusting if I used the old method - I experimented in my last moments of soft-ware dis-pare.
Some things I have learn-ed
1) The GIMP is infuriating (Every time I tried to embed text into the main layer - it vanished) and it is most likely only a good move for those who have already conquered Adobe Photoshop.
2) If I get serious about this I'll need a larger tablet, a larger scanner or both depending.
3) Cramming a weeks worth of work into twenty-four hours could perhaps not be the best idea.
4) I hate reading authors newsposts where they go over the creation of the day's update in excruciating detail and/or make a pile of qualifying remarks. Yet, I may have to get that out of my system just the one time - tomorrow.
5) I gotta get some sleep, now.
Though maybe I'll stare at this for just a minute or two, to sooth myself.
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You made a post somewhere in there but it was eradicated by the "Hulkamanity" picture. That might just be one of your greatest finds via the Google image search yet!
Also:
MENERGY
Yes. Yes indeed.
Alas, my energy legs had already carried me to that clip - thanks nonetheless!
Man, it's too bad you don't have a Mac. My sister just got a new one, and it has comic-building software built right in, including hundreds of different kinds of speech bubbles!
Gah!
I swear I am going to end up being a total Mac devotee some time in the next three years, they way they are going.
I went to the Mac store on Regent street (a north/south shopping mecca of a street which intersects with Oxford Circus) and it was, honestly, like a church. I was overwhelmed by the beauty of the place - not as a retail store but as a building, period - and the customer service really seemed top notch.
There was also a small theatre in the back where anyone could sit down in one of fourty well cushioned seats and listen to a well-delivered lecture on how to make a website (using basic Mac crap, of course, but then why would they lecture on anything else?). Jesus!
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