Use your head

July 31, 2011 at 11:48 (Blog, Comic)

I’m off to the beach, so I don’t have time to write very much right now.
Instead you can savour the next part of the Darwyn saga…

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Stupid MOV stuff

July 30, 2011 at 23:59 (Blog) (, , , , , , , )

I’ve drawn a new strip of Darwyn, and just finished coloring it. I will post it up here tomorrow.
But right now I’d much rather rant a little about an annoyance…

While drawing, both in pencil and ink, I was filming using my iPod Touch. I had created a butt-ugly stand for the camera to rest on, and the movie turned out pretty okay. It was long, though. Too long to allow me to upload to my YouTube account.

So I did the logical thing, copying it to my computer so that I could edit it, perhaps speeding it up so it would only take a few minutes. That’s when I hit the snag. The file was in MOV format, the one only used by QuickTime. And no matter how long I’ve searched today, I can NOT find a free video editing program that wil edit MOV files.
And no, I won’t pay for something I’ll only use once in a blue moon.

On one forum I was suggested to download something called “RAD tool” that would convert the file to something else, i.e. AVI files. Big botch. After spending the better part of 2 hours of encoding I ended up with a file of 4GB that had ugly, negative colors. And not only that, but the picture was shifted so that it was all nudged to the right, and was went out the right side was visible on the left of the screen.
Only a few seconds watching, and it gave me a headache.

Okey, rant over now.
Move on, nothing to see here. Move along…

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Darwyn the third

July 29, 2011 at 22:44 (Blog, Comic, Drawing) (, , , , , , , , , , )

I’ve finally decided on a name for my comic: Darwyn.
“The third” because it’s the third one completed, naturally.  ;)

I managed to churn out a new one today too, but I’m not doing a little experiment using textures. Let me know what you think of it, whether it’s to intrusive or subtle enough.

And I just can’t help showing off a little about HOW I made this. ;)
I had one of my coworkers film me drawing for a little while. As always I’m inking over pencils.

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What to call it?

July 28, 2011 at 16:03 (Blog, Comic, Drawing) (, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , )

Another day, another drawing…
This time a direct followup to yesterdays comic.

First a few pictures, both of the progress and of me filling in a large-ish area of ink with a brush.

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And here’s the comic.
Once again, click the image for full size.

I have a problem with this series, though: What to call it?
I want a simple name, preferably a one-word name, but also something catchy enough to easily remember and spell. I’ve envisioned it to be the name of that pink-ish blob-creature, but is doesn’t have to be. Any and all suggestions (that isn’t cussing) will be highly appreciated .

 

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Drawing blobs

July 27, 2011 at 22:02 (Blog, Comic, Drawing) (, , , , , , , , , , , , )

It’s summertime, and not much to do at work. At least not all the time.
Today I found the time to draw a little. Last night I kept dreaming of a cute “monster” that was sad because he was all alone. This idea kept popping up in my mind today too, so I started sketching and refining the sketches, and as I did so a little story started to form inside my skull.

I started penciling before lunch, and afterwards I went on to inking. By then the weather had changed from dreary and cloudy to bright and warm sunshine, so I picked up my toolbox and did all the inking outside.
By the way, here’s what my toolbox looks like:

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Inking done and the worst errors hidden by white acrylics. As you can see I use a board that I tape the paper onto. This paper is A3 Bristol, particularly suited for ink and airbrush.

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Back home I scanned the drawing and imported it into Photoshop. Using my Intuos 4wl tablet I added some simple color. I wanted the colors to be drab and muted to emphasize the monsters loneliness.

Here’s the final result. I hope you like it.
By the way, click the image to view in full size.

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