nzCrow's avatar

nzCrow

Jim Croasdale
14 Watchers139 Deviations
7.4K
Pageviews
Well, the strip came out in print looking better than I imagined. Lucky me.

For years I struggled trying to ink my own work using various tools until I gave in and used the computer to do my inking for me. Autotrace in Illustrator does a fairly good job 'inking' my pencils. In my mind though, I feel it's not 'real' inking and there's not the level of control that you can get from doing it by hand. So, the next strip'll be inked by hand. Well, maybe. I kinda like the randomness that the computer creates. It 'sees' the lines differently and often mixes and merges the pencil lines in unexpected ways.
Join the community to add your comment. Already a deviant? Log In
Hm. Just completed a 7 page strip, drawn on A3 for reduction to A4. Just found out that the final print size is A5. I think there's a slap forehead and a "Doh!" there somewhere… So, note to self: read the instructions next time.
Join the community to add your comment. Already a deviant? Log In

Yawn!!

1 min read
3.09am: a full-time job and a family, and yet here I am, firing drawings out into the ether. I must like this drawing lark, eh?

YAWNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!
Join the community to add your comment. Already a deviant? Log In
Greetings Earthlings.

I was just looking at the the amount of people that have looked at my work over the time I've been here on DA. Over two thousand views. Pretty amazing for a pile of half-arsed art. Not many hits compared to other people's pages I'm sure, but I appreciate every single one of those views. I thank you, one and all. :)

It's funny, every year there are people out there who say that comics are dying. If you go back into the mists of the early seventies, they were wailing and knashing their teeth, "The comics are doomed, DOOMED, I tell ye!" I recently read an editorial in a comic from the early 90s, where they said that the industry wasn't like it used to be, "Yes, it's doomed, I tell ya-DOOOMED!" And yet. They are still here. Yes, things have changed. People blame video games, DVDs and the internet and yet, comics are still here. I wonder why? I go into my local comic shop and there, in the corner is a line of freshly produced photocopied fanzines. Hardly anyone will buy them and yet the people who created them still put pen/pencil/stylus to paper/tablet. What drives people to produce comics I wonder? Why draw panels and speech balloons? Modern hieroglyphics if you will? Why strive to have a career in a 'dying' industry?

What drives you?
Join the community to add your comment. Already a deviant? Log In
Hope everyone's enjoying the holidays? Ready to get those pencils sharpened for 2012? On your marks, get set. DRAW!
Join the community to add your comment. Already a deviant? Log In
Featured

A new year. Maybe a new brush or pen? by nzCrow, journal

Always read the instructions. by nzCrow, journal

Yawn!! by nzCrow, journal

We're all doomed I tell ye! by nzCrow, journal

Seasons greetings. by nzCrow, journal