Arienna

Oy. Most annoying comic, -ever-. I ran out of the old paper (or, rather, the comic boarding...) I used to use to draw the comics on and so I went to buy a whole stack of the stuff. Only, I accidently bought the boards that are shiny on both sides instead of shiny on one side and matte on the other. >_> Shiny will not take pencil well or ink at -all-. Cursesss. So I've got lots of watercolour sketchpads and stuff, right? So what if they're -big-. I'll take advantage of this situation and -expand- the comic. Hah! Yes! A more fluid format. More suited to my growing skills as a visual story-teller... Or something.

Hem. My 'smooth art stock', suitable for "all markers, (will not bleed through), oil pastel, neocolor water-soluables, coloured pencils, charcoal, lead and graphite, gel pens, paint pens, rapdograph pens" does -not- like my inking pens. They have a... distrubing tendancy to pool. It trashes my detail work - notice the facial expression? The origional sketch was sad and lost, I'll swear it, but the ink botched. I had to try to fix it in photoshop. Yuk.

Also: Large drawings + standard scanner = Extremely frustrated Arienna. I had to scan the bloody thing in, in two parts and then played pyschotic itchy twitchiness, rotating it by 0.2 degree phases in order to get my carefully drawn lines (Five t-squares are varying sizes, trying to get these lines...) straight. It didn't work and eventually I installed a copy of Painter and just drew thick rectangles on it. XD It doesn't match up properly and having to swap the image ba and forth from Painter to Photoshop made my computer's total lack of RAM cry for mercy... But. Heh. Even though it took forever and the drawings got botched to heck by the paper surface, I kinda like the look of it. ^_^