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Experimenting a bit with style for the comic. I'm tired of the computery look and have tried traditional ink shading, which made coloring on the computer a breeze. We'll see. I'm still playing around with it.In the meantime, have a Clive!
Clive is from my web comic HMS Crock Doctor which can be seen here: [link]
28 March 2013
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I love just love this era. The costumes , the old ships and the dirt and roughness that exsisted in that period, also makes for great horror setting.
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I agree! This story keeps getting more and more dark...
Have you ever done anything Victorian-related?
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yeah a Christmas ghost story about a tree in a graveyard and a doctor who on his way home takes a short cut at night and puts his new fan dangled stethoscope to it...and is alarmed to hear the voices of his old patients..his departed patients. i was just remembering it earlier today somehow all my orignals have gone missing to that and i was daydreaming about redrawing it using proper references. if only i had the time.
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That would be great! Maybe turn it into an illustrated short story and sell hard copies?
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Oddly enough I was just remembering it the other day as i ran past some woods at night trying to avoid a storm ( Betha? )
The strip was published in America and i sent them the original pages, never ever got them back perhaps stolen perhaps lost and dumped in the bin, it was one of my favorites so thats why i woukd have loved to have been given chance to redraw it.
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Usually they keep the originals, for some reason. Do you have to send them originals? I wouldn't think they'd ask for originals, since they know they're not going to return them. I hope you at least scanned them before sending them in.
Did you get a copy of the strip? Or a check, at least?
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May I Download your picture please ? I want to changes my Facebook Profile photos
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You may download it but I'd prefer you not place it on Facebook. You see, every picture you put on Facebook in turn becomes Facebook's property, and I don't want them taking my art.
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Love it! 
And do what ever style you feel most comfortable doing and adds to the comic the most.
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Thanks! I just hope it doesn't look inconsistent. Your support is appreciated.
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I don't think it looks inconsistent. I actually like how it changed for the parts with the brits.
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Oh, I'm so glad! Thank you!
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Hmm... they both look great!
I've adopted outlining traditionally and then coloring digitally, while also finding new ways to use the traditional line art to my advantage on the computer. I also know someone who really knows how to combine traditional with digital and still let it look epic, hehe! He stands right on the line between traditional and digital coloring, as I have trouble telling with some parts every now and then.
One thing I do, if you want to make it look more clean, is erase all my pencil lines when I'm finished with the basic outline. I see you also shaded it with pencil and other stuff, too.
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Oh, I used some ink shading with a paintbrush and then outlined it in pen. Who's this person you know? Thanks for the compliments.
Yeah, I erase the pencil lines before sticking them in the computer, though maybe I should actually be sketching in red and drawing in black. That way you can remove the color more easily via the computer.
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Ah, neat.
Hehe, interesting. I have colored pencils, but I think they're more for coloring stuff in.
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Wow, he has a neat gallery! I'm not too good with colored pencils but I should keep practicing.
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I like to think I'm good with colored pencils, but I don't have much experience with them yet, so lots of improvement can be made there. :3 And indeed, I love his gallery hehe! His Round 0 and audition for Darkworld are sooo fun!
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I prefer this. But I'm a traditionalist. Chiaroscuro all the way, baby.
Looks vaguely like art by Hugo Pratt, btw.
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Oh, like Cortomaltese? Sono felice. 
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Have you picked up any of those yet? English editions are really damn hard to find, but Italian editions are pretty much everywhere on used book sites. I think you'd really really like them.
I have to say I'm biased towards rougher more organic linework and shading, though. You probably already knew that, what with me building turn of the century folk music instruments.
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I'd love to read them, and that would help my Italian improve! I'll check them out.
Yeah, I know you are, but so am I hehe. That's not really the style we use in animation, though, which is clean lines and block colors. It makes comic-making really...difficult. It's a completely different mindset and I think my inconsistent comic style makes that known.
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It's why I love paint on glass animation. You can't get a more organic feel than that!
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True, that stuff is gorgeous! Have you seen oil painting animation? It's also beautiful, but I prefer the glass like you because you can pour light behind it.
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