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.