Peace & Joy, page 9

[rowyn]

This is probably the page where I checked my email, because I had to get up and go to the computer to Google for a picture of aphids. Yes, that's more-or-less what an aphid looks like. One species of aphid, anyway. For all I know, it's a special breed of aphid that only eats Columbian coffee-plant leaves, and the tree-killing type of aphid looks totally different. You didn't expect a 24-hour comic to have good research, did you?

In other news: I don't know how real comic-book artists fit 6 panels into a page. My typical page had 4. Maybe if I'd used full-size layout sheets it'd've been feasible to squeeze in more. I was working on 8.5 x 11 inch sheets because I'm sick of stitching larger images together from multiple scans. The only think I like about the smaller sheets is that they're easy to scan, though. I like to work BIG! I would so love to have a giant scanner, but anything larger than 8.5x11" is prohibitively expensive, and it's not as though I can justify the purchase with my generally low output of art.

Comments

it helps knowing people that are comic artist....

[jimmy-hollaman.livejournal.com]

yes they use bigger peices of paper. i have a friend that does comics with some of the local KC artist and they use larger paper so they can get all the small details. then its either scanned or photographed and fixed with a photo shop type soft ware. tho some do it on 8.5 x 11inch stuff

Re: it helps knowing people that are comic artist....

[rowyn]

Yah, I know that typically comic artists use paper in the 11x17" or thereabouts range. I deliberately chose to work on smaller paper, mostly for the convenience of scanning it, but partly because I figured "I'll be drawing quickly anyway, it won't matter if I get good resolution for the drawings or not." I think I was wrong about the latter, though -- it would've been easier for me to draw on larger paper.

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

All Joy needs now is an insectide-filled backpack tank and a spray hose... Bugbuster!

[rowyn]

:)

[mister-wolf.livejournal.com]

There is a relativly cheap 11x17 sacnner out there. There's a review somewhere on comixpedia. Anyway, I just scan my stuff in sections.

Ooo!

[rowyn]

That's cool -- I should try tracking it down.

Found it!

[rowyn]

The Mustek A3 USB (preserved here for my own future reference).

$161 isn't unreasonable, nope. Now I gotta decide how badly I want it. :)

Re: Found it!

[ltwarhound.livejournal.com]

worth reading (http://www4.shopping.com/xPR-Mustek_ScanExpress_A3_USB~RD-176610250372)

not as useful a review (http://www.reviewcentre.com/review135295.html)

and a comparison of two different Musteks, the Bearpaw is 8.5x11, so its an odd choice to compare it to, but its what could be found, seems the A3 is fairly new and therefor there are few reviews on the 'net, professional or public:

from PCMag online (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,369407,00.asp)

Also found an 'express review' which gave it 3 out of 5 stars, and had only a comment about lack of drivers. Given the lack of reviews, professional or public, it

In general, Mustek product user reviews, overall, are mixed, about what I'd expect of a company still in business. Haven't seen any company with exclusively rave reviews, the few I've seen that had bad reviews across the board tended to be out of business.

Re: Found it!

[ltwarhound.livejournal.com]

Somehow I managed to overlook the date on the review, 2002, so the A3 is not a new product. The lack of reviews on it, given that its the only budget priced 11x17 scanner I could find, is odd. Not good or bad, just odd.

on comics, paper size, etc.

[krud42.livejournal.com]

For years* I've been foolishly drawing on 8 1/2" x 11" paper; I always drew insanely small, such that one sheet of college-ruled paper could comfortably fit six 3-panel comics (using both sides). This was before scanning was even a pipe-dream in my noggin, of course, or I never would've used lined. (And I find that re-drawing my comics has an inexplicably magic-draining effect on the end result, which is frustrating.)

I was almost an adult before I found out that the size of the comics in the paper (or comic book) was not the size the artist drew them in; I was slightly disillusioned.

Okay, enough self-absorbed commentary.

[* - more than 20, anyway.]