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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA Friend and I are Starting a New Political Comic - Need Some Feedback
We want to comment on current topics - Here is our first attempt - Rec if you approve
Also, we are still looking for a title
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Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)no question as to who they are. Good message overall. I love the 'dragon body and tail' (I hope I have that right).
lame54
(35,321 posts)denverbill
(11,489 posts)lame54
(35,321 posts)is a great artist
does sketches, paintings, computer art
this is a new direction for him
lame54
(35,321 posts)need to know if we are on the right track
Atman
(31,464 posts)I agree with the above posters (and I do have some experience in this field!)...this is a very good comic. But it's just one. It's hard to give it a title without knowing where you're going with it. Will they all be about health care? Politics in general? Give us some more! I think you're off to a great start. Excellent caricatures!
lame54
(35,321 posts)I only gave one example because we only have one
this is something we just started and we have a couple more ideas - but this is the only completed comic
Panasonic
(2,921 posts)and the artist was a DU'er.
I can't remember who it was...
http://www.rmcgcreative.com/comics/index.htm
edhopper
(33,615 posts)I like the art but I think the pencils alone leave it a little fuzzy. If you friend could ink it and not use those soft pencil backgrounds (he could photoshop in some grays) it would liook much sharper and cleaner. More appealing.
Atman
(31,464 posts)A hard-line drawing will be awesome. If they can draw this good, I'm sure they have a good inker, too.
lame54
(35,321 posts)we're just getting our feet wet
Atman
(31,464 posts)Open it in Photoshop, go to Image>Adjustments>Brightness and Contrast and push the contrast all the way up. Save the change as a copy, then re-open it and repeat the procedure. The second time you probably won't have to up the contrast as far. Play with the Brightness a bit, too, until you like the look. Select all, copy it, then past it on top of the gray scale version with "Darken Only" selected. You'll get all the nice gray shading, but with nice dark line work.
hunter
(38,326 posts)Using gimp, scale the image up, adjust the curves, and apply a threshold. Then change the mode to one color indexed, touch it up, and save it as a bmp. (Or you can use mkbitmap.)
Then here's the magic -- use potrace to convert the image to a scalable vector graphic. This creates something very much like a hand inked drawing.
You can leave the work in postscript or svg mode, and easily scale it or convert it into any format you wish for publication.
This illustrates the process in a general way:
http://potrace.sourceforge.net/mkbitmap.html
These are all open source programs. There's no reason to pirate Photoshop if you haven't got any money.
Now I'm imaging my dad, an artist, saying, "Um, that's okay. I'll just use ink..."
edhopper
(33,615 posts)but you have to treat you pencil like it's a pen as far as the line work.
Also Corel Painter let's you "ink" the image as well. Though like your dad, I still prefer hand done.
Xyzse
(8,217 posts)Although, I would recommend to simplify.
Pencils don't translate well to scanning, though I must admit, the shading gives it much depth.
Only thing though is that I wonder the turn around time in making that. Which is why I mention, simplify especially when going towards inking.
Any how, good luck.
lame54
(35,321 posts)for the first one
we will get faster
they will not all be six frames
there will be one and two frame comics as well
whatever it takes to tell, the story
Cool, I've just heard how hard it is to keep things in deadlines and such. That's why I mentioned simplify and ink.
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)Brickbat
(19,339 posts)If not, I don't think it works. It's not clear to me they're all the same "monster" and I couldn't figure out what the dinosaur legs were doing until I read the comments.
lame54
(35,321 posts)Chorophyll
(5,179 posts)You've really nailed those d-bags.
It's hard to suggest a title at this point. If it's gonna be purely about politics, that's one thing. If it's gonna have recurring characters (like in Doonesbury and Bloom County) that's a different thing.
lame54
(35,321 posts)but right now - anything goes
99Forever
(14,524 posts)unapatriciated
(5,390 posts)tell Mark hi for me and he does good art work.
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)lame54
(35,321 posts)so far it's been about the art work
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)I'm in the music business and I always hear that everything is 98% visual.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)I wish you success!
IDemo
(16,926 posts)I've used both but am partial to pencil. Yes, most of the pros use pen and ink, but that doesn't make it "better" IMO. If you can render a good pencil caricature (you can), then stick with it if that's what you're comfortable with.
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)"All we did was repeal Nixoncare"
Since the last real reform was the creation of HMOs during the Nixon administration. You know how the (R)s just love to talk about Nixon.