Thread "Drunk Duck Community Comic Book?" in forum "Networking & Community Projects*"

Posted at 2:09PM, Sep. 6, 2009

Second and final b&w preview (might post some color stuff later, once it's in color that is)

Posted at 5:09PM, Sep. 6, 2009

shapin my idea still. gonna throw down some layouts on paper tonight. gonna take a walk behind the factories to get some proper insperation, if you never hear from me agin, you'll lknow what happened.

Posted at 9:09PM, Sep. 7, 2009

sorry, i was gone most of the weekend

Is there a way to tell if tones will print well/not look like ass-aids? I've made some of my own with the bitmap trick but i dunno how to test them, just print and see?

i guess so

looks awesome guys!
i guess ill have to step up my A game for this!

hyena: the noirish style sounds cool

Posted at 10:09AM, Sep. 8, 2009

hyena: the noirish style sounds cool

Word!

Posted at 2:09PM, Sep. 9, 2009

nice giys! looks like this's gonna be real diverse! [as if there was a dobt] first page as of last night.
bout to get back on the horse now.

Posted at 1:09AM, Sep. 10, 2009

awesome, pit!

Posted at 11:09AM, Sep. 11, 2009

So how many pages has everyone got? I just…finished up page 2 >.< *slow*

Posted at 1:09PM, Sep. 11, 2009

1 page, but its compacted

Posted at 2:09PM, Sep. 11, 2009

pages 1-6 all done inking, attempting to color them in a way that enhances them and doesn't ruin/obscure lineart …and so far failing miserably. But I have few more ideas to test And still have to letter, so hopefully only few more days to go.

Posted at 4:09PM, Sep. 11, 2009

Finished all the pages and sent them.

Posted at 2:09AM, Sep. 12, 2009

…Wow, I'm smart. XD I initially saved the first page as a .TTF instead of a .TIFF. As you can imagine, didn't quite work right.

Anyway, pages one to three of yet another idea finished… and I swear I'll stick with this one, not like the last three. *sheepish* But yeah, this thing is bizarre. It's like the Sandman crossed with creepypasta crossed with a lot of amateur typography. I like it, though. Should have it finished and sent in the next few days.

Posted at 11:09AM, Sep. 12, 2009

here's mine in grayscale

Posted at 7:09AM, Sep. 13, 2009

Wow. How do you do it? I have trouble with Painter as I'm not used to it.

Posted at 7:09PM, Sep. 13, 2009

Gah, I hate flatting. Finishing coloring tomorrow (hopefully).

Posted at 8:09PM, Sep. 13, 2009

Wow. How do you do it? I have trouble with Painter as I'm not used to it.

thanks!
i mix traditional pencils, photoshop and painter

Posted at 8:09PM, Sep. 13, 2009

thanks!
i mix traditional pencils, photoshop and painter

I should try that some time. I've always wanted to make some digital art that was a bit different style than the cartoony stuff I usually do.

Posted at 10:09AM, Sep. 15, 2009

All artwork done, lettering tonight/tomorrow and then sending it off to my regular "proofreader"… should send in the entire thing closer to weekend.

The most labor intensive comic I have ever done, heh.

Posted at 11:09AM, Sep. 15, 2009

*almost done with page 3*
….probably alternative time.

Posted at 3:09AM, Sep. 16, 2009

This looks so cool… It makes me wanna join. Can I still?

Posted at 5:09AM, Sep. 16, 2009

Fully colored and lettered page one (treat it as a teaser or something):

Edit: still needs proofreading and lettering tweaks, I should get the pages checked back in a day or two.

Posted at 9:09AM, Sep. 16, 2009

Wow. I mean, it looked cool before, but it looks so much cooler in color.

Posted at 9:09AM, Sep. 18, 2009

Important question: My pages ended up rather large in size due to the "texturized" coloring so the entire thing has 57mb. Should I send it in one mail? two? three? perhaps upload it somewhere instead? (I have successfully used megaupload for moving large image files in the past).

Other than that I am finished, all pages are drawn, colored, lettered and checked.

Posted at 4:09PM, Sep. 18, 2009

Try flattening the image (don't know if you did that already) and, when saving the TIFF file, use the LZW compression. My pages were over 25 MB before I did that. If that's already been done, then I'm not sure what to tell you.

Posted at 6:09PM, Sep. 18, 2009

I did all that. My unflattened pages run 40-70mb (total 350mb for all 6 pages together) while flattened and resized to 300dpi go between 7-10mb. And yes, it's TIFF and LZW etc. It's just the style of coloring I've used (and the amount of detail on the pages), it gives large files.

I don't want to spend 20 minutes uploading a mail (I believe I could send out one this big) only to have it bounce back at me because it wasn't accepted by the server.

Posted at 10:09PM, Sep. 18, 2009

You'll have to send each one as a separate email. That's what I had to do.