April 7th, 2008
On Sickness and Spinning.
Intermission (again)!
I know I know–”what the hell?” It was just something that distracted me from finishing the actual next comic, and I figured as bad as it looks it’s better than nothing.
I may or may not bother trying to make a real background, or shading it, or ever looking at it again: as far as badly-made comics go, I kind of like how it looks in this “half-finished”-type state.
Addendum–2008.05.24
I’ve done a little work on this one because I just couldn’t stand having it online any longer. Honestly I didn’t do much overall, but here are the basic changes:
- Made the background gray scale–It was originally beige to match the post-it sketches I drew it on, but online it just added to the sickly quality.
- Shortened the frame boxes–The frames were originally much higher to accomodate the text, but it ended up looking sloppy with too much negative space. Rectifying that has left me with less room for word-bubbles though, so now the text merely floats. I think it’s the lesser of the evils.
- Cleaned up some of the lineart deviations–The background is the entire sketch, including characters, and there were some spaces where I had fixed too much on a character (surprised these drawings are the “fixed” ones?) so the background mistakes stood out like a sore thumb.
- Generally shrunk the entire comic–I made the whole thing about half the size it had originally been, thus accomplishing the following:
- The file-size is now manageable by computers other than NASA’s.
- More of the comic is visible on-screen at any given time.
- Much of the comic’s details (where my poor workmanship really shows) is miniaturized into invisibility, and thus I look more talented than I actually am (according to the 1>0 principle).