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Digamma-F-Wau
Mar 22, 2016

It is curious and wants to accept all kinds of challenges

a hole-y ghost posted:

Close the program you're drawing in, go into Services, stop Tablet PC Input Service and Wacom Professional Service, then start both of them again, and then re-open the program you were drawing in.

nope, didn't work

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a hole-y ghost
May 10, 2010

I assume you've restarted your computer already?

e: Is the light on the tablet changing color when you press the pen on the surface?

a hole-y ghost fucked around with this message at 22:58 on May 16, 2017

Fangz
Jul 5, 2007

Oh I see! This must be the Bad Opinion Zone!
Did you install drivers for some other tablet, perhaps? Alternatively you might have to turn off some windows ink things or whatever, that could cause problems.

JuniperCake
Jan 26, 2013
Try this, uninstall tablet drivers, windows ink, etc etc.
Unplug your tablet
Restart Computer.
Plug in tablet and reinstall tablet drivers.

I get that issue every now and then and that's what usually fixes it. Problem is when you uninstall stuff then restart, windows will automatically throw a bunch of garbage on the tablet before you even get the chance to reinstall the proper drivers.
May not fix it in this case, but it's worth a try if that's whats happening.

Digamma-F-Wau
Mar 22, 2016

It is curious and wants to accept all kinds of challenges
I don't even have anything called "windows ink" or whatever

Nude
Nov 16, 2014

I have no idea what I'm doing.

The Ayshkerbundy posted:

I don't even have anything called "windows ink" or whatever

I assume you're using windows right? Is it possible to get to a menu that resembles something like this and if so what happens to the "Current Pressure bar" when you press down? Menu is called Wacom Tablet Properties should be searchable in Windows 10.

If you're using a mac it would be in system preferences -> wacom.

Digamma-F-Wau
Mar 22, 2016

It is curious and wants to accept all kinds of challenges
I tried uninstalling and reinstalling again and this time it did the trick

Neon Noodle
Nov 11, 2016

there's nothing wrong here in montana
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Only registered members can see post attachments!

Neon Noodle fucked around with this message at 14:56 on Aug 21, 2019

BoneMonkey
Jul 25, 2008

I am happy for you.

Nice book!


I'm going mad.

a hole-y ghost
May 10, 2010

BoneMonkey posted:

Nice book!


I'm going mad.


Ooooh :haw:

Nice to look at. Keep it coming!

FunkyAl
Mar 28, 2010

Your vitals soar.
Hello! This isn't a webcomic but it has a character from my old webcomic, and it is also "sequential," please enjoy! https://vimeo.com/217931360

FunkyAl fucked around with this message at 02:39 on May 18, 2017

RoryBlank
Feb 3, 2010

Reiley posted:

Drawing each frame individually will absolutely make you the stronger artist in the long run. The smart artist will duplicate their sketch layer and ink over that three separate times, it saves you time and produces three distinct same-panel panels.

I decided to try doing a few more, making more of an effort to redraw each similar panel by hand each time, instead of copying anything.
I feel like it definitely helped/made an improvement to the overall look, so thank you for the encouragement to try that out.
I can't really speak to the idea of having too many panels, or how you feel about the jokes in them. It's totally cool if you don't like the end result, but (and this is especially true of the hospital one), I primarily think about writing first, and started drawing as a way to get ideas I had "out", and I think of individual panels more like punctuation in a run on sentence. Each panel is kind of an individual beat, and speaks to the cadence of the sentence's delivery.





I also decided to try using color.

Das Boo
Jun 9, 2011

There was a GHOST here.
It's gone now.
Bouncing back in for a direction check. My main takeaways from your critiques were gutter size, balloon placement, ease of direction and tangents. So here's the first 8 pages again to see if I'm actually improving it.

I'll mind the panel placement faux pas (two short preceding one long) after this, won't repeat it. I'm trying to cut back on corner-anchored dialogue balloons and attempting to avoid dialogue placed towards the bottom of a long panel. I've got one instance of that last bit thus far and if my shot at guiding the dialogue downward doesn't work, I might just redraw the panel. And I'll mind my tendency for OTS shots from now on. It's a bad habit I didn't even realize I had! :v:
I know I remain a complete novice with balloon poo poo, but I do very much appreciate the pointers you lot have given me.

al-azad
May 28, 2009



Just from a cursory glance the addition of wider gutters makes it so much more readable and professional looking.

Neon Noodle posted:

BOOK BOOK BOOK BOOK BOOK

Got the proof from the printer! They did really nice work. Highly recommended: Art Bookbindery in Winnipeg.



If you don't mind, what are they charging and what was the minimum order size? Do they print adult material (and by that I mean rated R at worse)?

Fangz
Jul 5, 2007

Oh I see! This must be the Bad Opinion Zone!

Das Boo posted:

Bouncing back in for a direction check. My main takeaways from your critiques were gutter size, balloon placement, ease of direction and tangents. So here's the first 8 pages again to see if I'm actually improving it.

I'll mind the panel placement faux pas (two short preceding one long) after this, won't repeat it. I'm trying to cut back on corner-anchored dialogue balloons and attempting to avoid dialogue placed towards the bottom of a long panel. I've got one instance of that last bit thus far and if my shot at guiding the dialogue downward doesn't work, I might just redraw the panel. And I'll mind my tendency for OTS shots from now on. It's a bad habit I didn't even realize I had! :v:
I know I remain a complete novice with balloon poo poo, but I do very much appreciate the pointers you lot have given me.

Much better! Good job.

FunkyAl
Mar 28, 2010

Your vitals soar.



I drew some comics again!!!! comics are good and help me

Wowporn
May 31, 2012

HarumphHarumphHarumph
i wish when i made lines they were interesting

JuniperCake
Jan 26, 2013

Wowporn posted:

i wish when i made lines they were interesting

Don't we all.

BoneMonkey
Jul 25, 2008

I am happy for you.

I went mad.

Reiley
Dec 16, 2007


God I love 45 degree isometrics. That looks so good.

vvv Looks like a shitload of really far-away people to me.

Reiley fucked around with this message at 19:17 on May 29, 2017

BoneMonkey
Jul 25, 2008

I am happy for you.

It was a pain and I hosed up some fundamentals! Hooray! the crowd look ok to you? I honestly cant think of a better way to do it that wouldn't take another 20 hours.

/\/\/\

Cool, I always feel a bit funny about photo bashing into line work, I find it a little jarring. But I couldn't think of a better way to go about it other than actually drawing it. And I have gone mad enough.

BoneMonkey fucked around with this message at 22:59 on May 29, 2017

Dogwood Fleet
Sep 14, 2013

BoneMonkey posted:

It was a pain and I hosed up some fundamentals! Hooray! the crowd look ok to you? I honestly cant think of a better way to do it that wouldn't take another 20 hours.

/\/\/\

Cool, I always feel a bit funny about photo bashing into line work, I find it a little jarring. But I couldn't think of a better way to go about it other than actually drawing it. And I have gone mad enough.

Yeah, I'm seeing it. Maybe play with the levels in that part of the image to get it closer to the rest of the color scheme and knock down some of the contrast. It looks wonderful and I'm nitpicking.

Fangz
Jul 5, 2007

Oh I see! This must be the Bad Opinion Zone!
Is stuff like Top Webcomics significant from a promotional point of view or is it mostly for bragging rights?

WrathOfBlade
May 30, 2011

Fangz posted:

Is stuff like Top Webcomics significant from a promotional point of view or is it mostly for bragging rights?

I'm sure it works for some people but as far as I can tell it's not significant for either

a bloody icon
Apr 22, 2012

Fangz posted:

Is stuff like Top Webcomics significant from a promotional point of view or is it mostly for bragging rights?

I get enough traffic from the TWC site that I've never considered taking the button down.

Lunatic Sledge
Jun 8, 2013

choose your own horror isekai sci-fi Souls-like urban fantasy gamer simulator adventure

or don't?
Guys I'm thinking of doing webcomics again, talk me out of it

al-azad
May 28, 2009



Don't you will die poor and everyone will hate you.

sweeperbravo
May 18, 2012

AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)
you will pour orders of magnitude more time into a single panel than any other human being will ever spend looking at it, possibly cumulatively

Fangz
Jul 5, 2007

Oh I see! This must be the Bad Opinion Zone!

sweeperbravo posted:

you will pour orders of magnitude more time into a single panel than any other human being will ever spend looking at it, possibly cumulatively

Jesus gently caress that is depressing

Neon Noodle
Nov 11, 2016

there's nothing wrong here in montana

al-azad posted:

Don't you will die poor and everyone will hate you.

Am dead, poor, can confirm

Lunatic Sledge
Jun 8, 2013

choose your own horror isekai sci-fi Souls-like urban fantasy gamer simulator adventure

or don't?
Incidentally, I can't decide whether I like partial or full color better.





Full color looks more... full color, but the partial color has a kind of old storybook thing going on I kind of dig. It doesn't help that I'm Not Great at colors.

sweeperbravo
May 18, 2012

AUNT GWEN'S COLD SHAPE (!)
it sounds counterintuitive but if you're not great at colors, full color is probably better than partial color. Partial color requires knowing what to include/omit in order to create an effect. It's a little like how a chef can create something delicious even with limited ingredients or tools, but someone just learning how to cook will struggle under the limitations.


But a better suggestion is, if you aren't good at color, it's rpetty easy to learn and start experimenting with (espeiclaly since you're using digital media so you can change things at whim and not get trapped in an ever darkening, muddying bog of ink).
Rowland Hilder's book "Starting with Watercolor" really changed the way I thought about color (and technique and stuff as well, but I'm recommending it to you arpticularly because of the color part). Yes the book is about watercolor paint but the color theory, as presented, can be applied to other media. See if you can pick up a copy, they may have one at a local library, and there's also some for less than $10 on amazon and such.

Reiley
Dec 16, 2007


sweeperbravo posted:

you will pour orders of magnitude more time into a single panel than any other human being will ever spend looking at it, possibly cumulatively

this is the dark curse

FunkyAl
Mar 28, 2010

Your vitals soar.

sweeperbravo posted:

But a better suggestion is, if you aren't good at color, it's rpetty easy to learn and start experimenting with (espeiclaly since you're using digital media so you can change things at whim and not get trapped in an ever darkening, muddying bog of ink).
Rowland Hilder's book "Starting with Watercolor" really changed the way I thought about color (and technique and stuff as well, but I'm recommending it to you arpticularly because of the color part). Yes the book is about watercolor paint but the color theory, as presented, can be applied to other media. See if you can pick up a copy, they may have one at a local library, and there's also some for less than $10 on amazon and such.

To add to this, learning how to use color in a psysical media can only improve your understanding of color in a way (whoa hold on contoversial opinion comin watch out uh oh.....) that digital media just can't! Like, i've been learning to oil paint this year and colors in real life have started looking better. watercolors or oil pastels are great places to start because theyre cheap and easy to use!! AND if youre still interested in lesrning how to explore a limited palate, its much much easier when you have physical tools instead of the virtual infinity a computer is constantly trying to offer you

Neon Noodle
Nov 11, 2016

there's nothing wrong here in montana

FunkyAl posted:

To add to this, learning how to use color in a psysical media can only improve your understanding of color in a way (whoa hold on contoversial opinion comin watch out uh oh.....) that digital media just can't! Like, i've been learning to oil paint this year and colors in real life have started looking better. watercolors or oil pastels are great places to start because theyre cheap and easy to use!! AND if youre still interested in lesrning how to explore a limited palate, its much much easier when you have physical tools instead of the virtual infinity a computer is constantly trying to offer you

TRUUUUUUUUTH on digital color. It is not like paint color. It just isn't. It's very hard to learn color digitally. I didn't learn poo poo until I started painting with watercolors and gouache.

mrfart
May 26, 2004

Dear diary, today I
became a captain.
I got to make the cover of his weeks Spirou magazine.
Besides the cover, I also got a gag page, dual game page, an interview and… a “mini-réçit”!
that's a tiny album that you need to fold and staple together yourself.

If anybody speaks french and lives in europe, you can find it in the better newspaper stands, or you can find the digital version here:
http://ww4.izneo.com/albums/journal-spirou/n-4131-tome-4131-A24277
But I’m not sure how easy the folding and stapling will be in that one.



Neon Noodle
Nov 11, 2016

there's nothing wrong here in montana
Holy cow that's great!!

HanzoSchmanzo
Apr 11, 2011

Whoops! Meant to post this here, accidentally created a thread:

http://imgur.com/a/wRB6r

There are a couple of typos. They're corrected for the finished print, but these pages were exported from an earlier PDF.

BoneMonkey
Jul 25, 2008

I am happy for you.

HanzoSchmanzo posted:

Whoops! Meant to post this here, accidentally created a thread:

http://imgur.com/a/wRB6r

There are a couple of typos. They're corrected for the finished print, but these pages were exported from an earlier PDF.

loving terrifying.

Best horror comic I have ever read!

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Unmature
May 9, 2008
Does anyone use an Artisul tablet? I'm in the market for an affordable screen tablet and that seems to be the most attractive one below Cintiq level. Any recommendations are appreciated, thinking the 2-400 dollar range.

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