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

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.]