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I follow it simply because SFW comics are getting rare these days. That and I like the art style :3 I think it took a hit in numbers simply because it wasnt as advertised as well as others in qll honesty.
I would be happy with where ever the comic goes even if you decide to end / reboot the comic by having them all get eaten by a dragon :p so long as it doesnt just drift off into obscurity xD i. Hate. It when comics just dissapear.
Either way, thanks for entertaining us for the last 5 years 🙂
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I looked back at chapter 3, and I must admit I found the simple ink-lines with no shading at all to be a trifle stark. It felt, to me, a trifle disconcerting. My memory had actually added in shading that wasn’t there 🙂
I don’t know how common that impression would be among your readers, though.
]]>In digital coloring, colors are usually applied in two stages. The first is the ‘flats’ where you block in large areas with a single, solid color. The second and more time consuming stage is where you go back over the flats and add in tones to make the forms rounded, have lighting effects or bounce their colors off nearby objects in the scene. In my experience, doing the flats in a program like Manga Studio doesn’t take too long and is only slightly more difficult than doing a similar thing in grey tones. The rendering stage, on the other hand, takes a lot more work to get right.
One of the main reasons I started using color was because readers were having trouble distinguishing minor characters. It also makes the page more unified. I did most of chapter 3 in black and white, and when you’re just scanning over the thumbnails, it can be really hard to tell what’s going on.
As for a smaller size, I was thinking along the lines of a four panel strip, ala Calvin and Hobbes or Pogo. Something funny with short arcs that don’t require new readers to know a few hundred pages of plot to be able to understand. I know there are some strips like Two Kinds or Lackadaisy that can do the long running serial format well, but they also have really high production values. I may need something less demanding and with fewer plot and art constraints, at least for a while.
Anyhow, I’m not planning any changes just yet. I’ll have to see how things develop over the next year.
]]>If you did switch to black and white, would you be able to have shading (even hand-sketch shading), or would that take just as long as colour? I think the comic might suffer from being flat outlines. Something like the black and white pages of Golden Age (http://goldenage.comicgenesis.com/) might work?
As for the length and tone of the strip… well, I tend to feel an unpaid (or advert supported) artist should do whatever they feel happy with. Some of the grim stuff has been most effective. Having said that, I’d enjoy either approach.
I do think that going too small in size might make your comic a bit cramped, but as I’m not familiar with weekly newspaper size I don’t know if you mean a small four-panel talking heads style of thing or half-page rather than full-page.
Anyway, good luck with whatever you decide to do 🙂
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