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Drawing Table Tuesday

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Q: How do you turn the beginning of a 4 into a 3? A: Not very well. About Drawing Table Tuesday .

Drawing Table Tuesday

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Easiest, fastest thumbnail yet, lol. I'm not big on talking heads, but every now and then, it'll do. Plus, the background's well defined in the previous pages, but more importantly, the facing page. About Drawing Table Tuesday .

Hindsight = lol, thanks paypal.

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I remember in college, it would be interesting to retrace the design steps that something'd gone through to get the way it was. Probably because design meant throwing as much as you felt like at it and whatever stuck, stuck. I did that today with the current layout- We needed a button to sell the comic. I found the most generic Paypal button, used it as a base and added text and an image to it. I thought it looked okay, so I made one for the other book I had. Then I started loosely putting things together. For temporary placeholders, I took the generic Paypal button, made it black, and tried to put them where I wanted. My thinking was that I'd make real buttons whenever I got to it. I think they just had white numbers because I wasn't sure what I wanted yet. You can kinda see them here , in that picture. When I finished with the drawing and coding, the black generic placeholders had grown on me. I even liked the generic numbers, so I kind of kept those too and a

Drawing Table Tuesday

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There are figures in that third panel, but to keep it clean they're drawn on tracing paper and rubber cemented onto the page at the top. I really like how the figure on the right here turned out. It's going to be a really good base to draw from when I really draw the page. Also, if you look at the pencil line thickness, you'll get a good idea of how small these are. The really thin lines are from a very sharpened pencil. About Drawing Table Tuesday .
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I couldn't really remember what I intended this ambiguous gray glob to be. So I had to make something else up. It doesn't really matter, this part's all dialogue anyway. Any difficult drawing in this part is just so it won't be floating heads for ten pages.

Drawing Table Tuesday

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I've been drawing the thumbnails pretty tight so far. The above nonsense/gibberish is a few different tries for two different pages. These aren't thumbnails, they're just to get the gist before I draw the thumbnail. I'm trying to kick it into high gear so I can really start this thing sometime next month. The tight thumbnails should really help in the long run. I'm willing to put a little extra time in now, do them right, and save myself a lot of work and time later. If I get to it, I'll post a real thumbnail of one of those pages in the next few days. About Drawing Table Tuesday .

Hold on to your butts.

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I feel like this every time I'm about to test something that I just spent the last X  hours coding. I spent a day or two last week reworking my site. I didn't really hit any snags, so I think it only took me around a day and a half to finish. I never got around to making a gallery. Mostly because it's just not interesting to me so it was really low on my list of priorities. Immediately after finishing, I started to feel guilty because Staci's been wanting a redesign too, but with emphasis on a gallery and it not looking like a blog. So, Monday, I started trying to find some sort of simple gallery that would work with blogger. And I immediately failed miserably. I eventually settled on one of those semi-pre-coded JavaScript free-licensed thumbnail viewer things. It was more complicated than I'd wanted, but I could't find anything else. After spending a few days familiarizing myself with it, I got it to work the way I wanted (more or less, maybe less) ,