nzCrow

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.

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.

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!!