Life Evolves

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dragonestea

on Oct. 12, 2011

Whoo! double digits! and it only took me months and months to get here! Oh well, one of these days I'll finally learn to update once a week. It won't happen next week though, because of a rather fortunate discovery I made. I was at a friend's house and I found a CD for a program called Manga Studio 4. I now have a burned copy of this program, and hopefully it will make things a lot faster, I just need to learn to use it first. Photoshop is great, but it's a photo editing program, not a comic program. This, I assume, is why the paint bucket tool is broke as fuck and always leaves a blank space between the filled area and the lines that are being filled in. This space is far smaller if I use the pencil tool, but it is for that very reason that I use the brush tool, because the bigger space is easier to find and fill. What I want is no space at all so that the coloring process takes minutes or hours instead of days.
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I think Marvel's comic series The Runaways is my favorite superhero book these days, and reading through it recently I found a new artist to admire by the name of Adrian Alphona. I really like his work, and I noticed his style has many similarities to mine, so I'm hoping that in the future when my art doesn't, you know, suck I'll be able to draw like him. I thought the scene where Karolina came out of the closet was especially well drawn. I just wanted to go into the comic and give her a hug. Anyway, just thought I'd share that. 
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I'm kind of kicking myself for my writing recently. I'm always hard on my own art, but I usually take great pride in my writing. Recently, however, because at my current speed I would never get to the good parts of the story otherwise I have to compress the story. That's why this fight came out of nowhere, and even though I will make it make more sense later it seems kind of dumb now. If I want to be a published comics writer I really need to do better. 
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So I don't like my art or my writing. What then do I like about this page? I love the battle dynamics. I hope you guys are enjoying watching this fight unfold as much as I am choreographing it. This is a precursor for many awesome battles to come, so get pumped!