Thread "wood or mechanichal" in forum "Comic Talk and General Discussion *"

Posted at 7:10AM, Oct. 3, 2006

I wasn't a big fan of flash when I tried to port my inking from paintshop pro over, but to be fair i didn't spend alot of time messing aroud with it.

Posted at 9:10AM, Oct. 3, 2006

You may also need a Wacom tablet as well. If you don't have one, get one.

So back to topice, I don't like having a woody pencil. It is made of wood and I don't like wood so I prefer mechanical pencils.

Posted at 9:10AM, Oct. 3, 2006

Illustrator also works pretty well for inking. I tend to prefer it since it's easier to make lines with variable width and edit your lines.

Posted at 5:10AM, Oct. 4, 2006

mechanical all the way, i hate to sharpen a wooden penciel 10,000 times when i'm working on a pic. that's if i start drawing again. <_<

for most inking tablet penciel if that counts. ^_^

Posted at 7:10AM, Oct. 4, 2006

Wood man wood. Mechanicals an evil thingy created by the man to sap our brains out and rob us of our tentalce powers

Posted at 7:10AM, Oct. 4, 2006

not my tentical powers!

next thing you know they'll be trying to get one of my five brains!

Posted at 10:10AM, Oct. 4, 2006

I use my mouse in flash to draw.

holy shit, me too!

Holy coincidence Batman! Me too!

Posted at 1:10PM, Oct. 4, 2006

Rich, do you have a tablet?

Yep, I got a Graphire3. It's not the best on the market, but it is very reliable and quite durable too.

Posted at 2:10PM, Oct. 4, 2006

I always use a trusty mechanical pencil. :3 but I also use a lightbox for making cleaner sketches and/or inking. They're also great for doing frame-by-frame animations. XD My old graphire just died after…4 or 5 years, so now I"m waiting for my new tablet to come in. My Dad bought me an Intuos 9x12. Yeee XD I can't wait to try it out.

Posted at 3:10PM, Oct. 4, 2006

Mechanical pencil 0.5mm for sketching and lineart and no. 2 pencil for shading… but I barely shade anything now. I really need to steal a pencil sharpener at school.

I also have Intuos3 A5 Tablet… been a bloody while since I used that.

Posted at 4:10PM, Oct. 4, 2006

since people have been mentioning tablets i guess i'll mention mine.

mine is a wacom tablet whis is about as big as my computer moniter my dad says it was the biggest one there and supposeably the best, but my computer desk is tiny so it sits on my computer when i don't use it and on my lap at and angle when i use it.

so bottom line part of me wishes it was smaller i'm hopeing when my laptop gets here that i can hook that up and draw with it on the ground or bed that would be so much easier.

so bigger is not always better if you have no space to set it.

Posted at 5:10PM, Oct. 4, 2006

Depends on my mood at the time, but i like mec the most.

Posted at 6:10PM, Oct. 4, 2006

I'm exclusively mechanical and have been for years. I just can't seem to get wooden pencils to sharpen enough to do what I need.

Posted at 4:10AM, Oct. 5, 2006

so bottom line part of me wishes it was smaller i'm hopeing when my laptop gets here that i can hook that up and draw with it on the ground or bed that would be so much easier.

In that case it probably would have been better to just get a tablet PC instead of a regular laptop. Then you wouldn't need to hook up a tablet to it. They aren't really any more expensive than other laptops these days. Mine has served me well the past four years.

Posted at 5:10AM, Oct. 5, 2006

It seems that most people who go for mechanical pencils do it because wood pencils aren't sharp enough.

Personally, I don't really mind cause my sketches aren't really detailed and I ink over them (not using a tablet but one of em pens. Yes they still actually make pens) anyway.

Also, to me there's something retro and cool about using wooden pencils that I can't justify. It's like having a barbecue with charcoal instead of gas, or using wooden chopsticks instead of plastic ones. It's just better.

Posted at 12:10PM, Oct. 5, 2006

to isukun: yeah that probably would have been better and i was thinking about that a little bit, but i already bought the laptop that i intend on using it for things that take a toll on my computer.

i just recently thought about the tablet thing after it was paid for so i can't go back now ^^;
but those tablet pcs look pretty slick.

Posted at 1:10PM, Oct. 6, 2006

I forgot to mention that i like to use drawing pencils to get different kinds of effects and thicker or darker lines.

Posted at 1:10PM, Oct. 6, 2006

i sketch with a normal pen

Posted at 3:10PM, Oct. 6, 2006

Personally, I don't really mind cause my sketches aren't really detailed and I ink over them (not using a tablet but one of em pens. Yes they still actually make pens) anyway.

It's actually good to have a seperate sketchbook that, although it may never see an audience, experiments with things that you wouldn't be able to do in comics. It'll improve your art greatly in the end.