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Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 7:50 am
by Niko123000
I belive these lovley Icons celebrate my joy.

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I did It! I made the first page of the Comic! (and at this rate if I host it on Comic Genisis, I'll have to add the HightWol drop down menu.)

Click to enlarge. it may be a little crappy now, but it will deffenetly get better.

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and now an icon to sum up my feelings now

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Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 3:26 pm
by Tom Flapwell
Great icons. My personal favorite is the markers one; it's pretty and amusing but not distracting.

I look forward to your next strip.

Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 6:49 pm
by Dr. Doog
:) I like it because the people in the pictures look like they're 3-d and that concept amuses me. Can't wait to see more!

Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:00 am
by Tabris_The_17th
That's quite the dramatic opening. I look forward to seeing more.

Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 4:03 am
by Chris
I loved this one :laugh:

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and this pic captures the real me when high in coffee xD
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Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 4:29 am
by Holyman83
Looks good.

I love the little caffeine guy.

Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 8:49 am
by Niko123000
w00t! Page 2 is here! and I apologize formally for the messed up drawing of that freaky named thing from Alien.

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NOWGETMESOMEGODDAMNEDSUGAR!ANDSOMECAFFINETOO!

BTW, I also found a very nice way to shade :D I hope you like the shading touch I added.

Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 10:03 am
by simon
This look interesting, it doesn't have the corny starting strips that almost every other webcomic seems to have. Keep it up man

Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 10:06 am
by Niko123000
This look interesting, it doesn't have the corny starting strips that almost every other webcomic seems to have. Keep it up man
Let's see, I take that comment as is.... or I forward it to about every every comic artist I know...

Thanks. Next up is a Full dynamic looking apge, so I'll be playing around in Paint.NET again WEE!!!!

BTW, is it worth the money to get a drawing tablet for the PC?

Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 10:22 am
by simon
Go ahead, maybe it'll stop new comics starting off badly

And it depends, i have only used mine once, but i'm not making a comic either. for some things, it's a godsend, but i still find myself going back to the mouse for certain things. the problem with tablets is getting used to the lack of friction you normally get from a pen or pencil on paper. otherwise, go for it. i got mine for 100 bucks on ebay, works great.

Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 11:05 am
by Chris
I still preffer a pencil and a pen...just pencil them and *Carefully* Ink it with a pen..

NOTE: I haven't used or even touched a tablet so..i dont know what it feels like.

Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 4:40 pm
by Muninn
Snapeward, very nice.

Posted: Thu Aug 24, 2006 8:04 pm
by Gizensha
Intreaguing comic, I fully expect to enjoy it when it gets going (not saying I'm not enjoying it now, just that you can't really get a feel for a comic until there are about a dozen strips for it)

I will, however, say that you might want to work on your colouring. As I said elsewhere, you're naturally going to improve due to working on the comic, but... The little white specs is the biggest weakness of the comic for me.

Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 1:59 am
by Holyman83
ooooo, they share a name.

look interesting so far.

Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 9:57 am
by Niko123000
Ok... I have officially become good enough in Paint.NET that I know how to do just about anything you Photoshop and Gimp Losers can do *nener nener neeenner*

Easy Shading using Layers and Multply setting = $0

Ability to create Grass and starfields = $0

Ability to take a RL image of a Brick wall, re size it to fit, and then move it a layer down, then use the magic wand and make a section see through revealing the brickwall = $0

Awesome glow effect that I will most DEFFENITLY use more often = $0

Having a perfectly free program with all the cabalbilities of Photoshop and GIMP that's easy to use and you don't have to Limewire to get = Priceless

Screw photshop, Screw GIMP, screw PSP, I have PDN!

anyway, Rant done, here's Page three.

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