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Anyone who uses the name "Tokyopop" doesn't realize why its connotations are as poisonous as they are.
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Squidster, am I right in thinking you printed through Marquis? How quick is their turnaround for proofs, in your experience?
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Jul 22, 2015 17:29
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Squidster posted:Yep, Marquis. The cost of proofs was offensive - like $160 cdn each - so I printed my proofs with Createspace instead. It didn't confirm paper quality or final feel, but it let me catch those typos that are somehow invisible on screens. The final turnaround on the big order was about three weeks including shipping, though. Good to know, I was considering doing the same thing (but mostly for time reasons). I wouldn't take that shortcut if the interiors were color, but I figure I've seen enough books via Marquis to know how well their B/W reproduces. Mostly just want to check for typos, accurate lineup of spreads, etc. Thank you.
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Jul 22, 2015 17:51
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Squidster posted:It worked out pretty well for us! We got our createspace proofs in about 4 business days, unless customs was being particularly lovely that day. We went through 3 rounds to make sure everything was perfect, and still there's a drat typo on the back cover. Ha ha, I know, right? I did two proofs for one of my books and there's still a typo in the acknowledgements  . This time around, I hired an independent proofreader to go over it.Anyway, very good to know, since it's my first monochrome interior, and therefore first time with Marquis. I'm optimistic based on the books I've seen printed though them.
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Jul 22, 2015 18:08
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Troposphere posted:aww man was that my fault? I think I focused more on the story pages and not so much the acknowledgment, lesson learned It was a character's name (acknowledging the colorist for the two coloring jobs I hired out), there's no way you could have caught it  .
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Jul 22, 2015 18:26
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Troposphere posted:ahh I see! phew my editor soul was dying a little inside haha It's ok, I'll still call on you to look the next one over, with the other as a second backup. Typos are impossibly sneaky 
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Jul 22, 2015 21:02
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People were asking because no one could figure out what you were talking about.
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Jul 26, 2015 05:18
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Crap posted:why did you draw a partially naked elsa Some people think lingerie is more attractive than full nudity, Crap.
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Jul 28, 2015 05:55
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It looks like the blue tights are like some sort of overlay? Material reacts differently to light when stretched around a volume than skin, and it sort of deadens the effect of the color.
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Jul 28, 2015 06:27
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Avshalom, you're overlooking a pretty considerable problem, which is that there's no one logo, sigil, or other item that symbolizes their membership in the team, which is necessary for me to design self-inserts. 
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Jul 28, 2015 15:15
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vaguely posted:um, clearly the team logo is their breasts? it symbolises that they are empowered, and also, female But the deadly alien sexvixens have to have breasts too
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Jul 28, 2015 15:53
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You'd think somewhere in those 12 hours you'd have noticed Elsa's braid is on the wrong side.
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Jul 28, 2015 19:45
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I wonder if any artists here could weigh in on a situation where your character requires foot and hand covering but apparently no underwear. Anyone? Anyone here at all?
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Jul 28, 2015 20:42
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Scribblehatch posted:interested in a rousing back and forth. Well that explains Kiki.
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Jul 28, 2015 21:02
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Scribblehatch posted:We're all aware of the rest of the world and their opinions. You sound like the narrator to the Land Before Time sequels.
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Jul 29, 2015 03:58
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Colon Semicolon posted:hyperbole all over the place
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Jul 29, 2015 04:23
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TCAF was great but I wish I'd done a year as an attendee before I tabled. It ended up hard to check in on everything cool going on.
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Aug 2, 2015 04:37
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What I like to do is find representative articles from different period outfits or styles, set them on hangers, and line them up on the laundry line. Then I generously daub each one with a flavor of jam and see which attracts more wasps. More wasps = better. Ha ha, just kidding! Just have everyone wear a t-shirt.
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Aug 3, 2015 00:29
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InDesign is a really great program and very intuitive.
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Aug 6, 2015 05:39
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There are times it's fine to break it.   (Not that I particularly care about Star Wars, but if you need a screenshot, by god you'll find it from Star Wars.) Pick fucked around with this message at 03:49 on Aug 18, 2015 |
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Aug 18, 2015 03:47
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sweeperbravo posted:One peeve I have about comics on SmackJeeves is that by default, the site displays any pages in the default "unchaptered" folder at the beginning of the comic archive, so like before Chapter 1. Unfortunately a lot of people post their fillers, gift arts, "THANKS FOR 500+ FANS" images, etc, in "unchaptered," not realizing that although usually the archive displays chronologically, all of those extra and useless images wind up at the beginning of the comic so you have to navigate around them or wade through them before you get to the actual start of the comic. Yeah, I think I have to periodically move them to the end of the most recently-complete chapter. Even that isn't a *great* spot.
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Sep 5, 2015 19:37
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Some companies have default animal designs and will accommodate custom colors or embossing, one of my friends did that for one of her original character things. It depends what your critter is.
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Sep 29, 2015 03:10
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Avshalom posted:I have had ENOUGH of this crude society!! It's okay Avshalom. I love you. Merry Hanukkah  .
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Nov 28, 2015 02:57
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sweeperbravo posted:Subliminally advertise by adding an image of a coca-cola can at 5% transparency over each of your comic pages Censor bar with "Blueballs? Try PORNHUB" written on it.
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Jan 18, 2016 03:37
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I'm copyrighting the dutch angle + 4°. Original angle, do not steal.
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Jan 21, 2016 21:25
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Honestly, I do kind of think the characters get lost in those Lackadaisy pages, especially compared to Blacksad posted above. In that bottom page, I actually keep seeing the sitting fellow with the suit and bow tie as maybe being the focal point of that panel? But he probably shouldn't be, considering what's going on.
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Troposphere posted:pick is really great at making realistic but still stylized nature backgrounds using photoshop brushes and stuff she makes herself idk if she's posted her process anywhere but it's rad as hell Thank you Trop! They're not all my brushes, and I use MangaStudio. A fair number of them are mine, though. A big part of it is leaning the capabilities of what at first seem like really lovely and useless brushes.   This one for example made use of the shojo sparkle brush, one of the tiny flower brushes (cherry blossom maybe), and what I seem to recall was 888toto's "Treeline" and "Supergrass", none of which are brushes I would normally recommend. I made that ridiculous fern brush. It also makes use of Droplet, which is a built-in brush that I personally think is great and I would kiss and hug and marry it if it were a person. By the way, elk do not have tails like this so... whoops.  This is clearly basically just an incestuous mix of brushes, including the star brush which for whatever reason doesn't make stars the same size (but at this scale it wasn't worth figuring out). Mangastudio's foliage brush, some sort of sprouting plant brush, Droplet, a 888toto "Wire" brush, and a brush I seem to recall I made by messing with the "watercolor" settings. I also use the "Crack" brush a lot, even though it has a ton of issues. But at the scale I actually intended this to be seen, it was ok. This background was broken into 8 major layer sets, since I like to work on one type of object at a time. But it means that for example, if you just look at the tree trunks, their detail ends where they're blocked off in front.  I used a lot of RoughLine for the tree trunks, you can even see a white strip on the left from accidentally working on white which I had to fix later. Anyway this ended up going into this (which got kind of over-sharpened in resize, sorry):  I think trees are kind of fun though, so it's just my thing and probably not useful for most people  .
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Retro Ghost, those are loving great.
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Feb 10, 2016 01:57
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I'm so sorry you had one o' them guys. Yikes.
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Feb 10, 2016 03:25
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I have friends who are full-time artists who primarily rely on fanart sales at cons to make ends meet because the original work doesn't sell nearly as well. In my mind, the issue is complicated because it seems to be a symptom of the difficulties involved in being a full-time independent content creator. I think many artists would sell less fanart if they didn't think it was necessary to make their participation in the art world financially viable.
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sweeperbravo posted:In college it was relatively easy to keep up with my comic because I had a pretty manageable schoolwork load and no real bills yet. Same. Except for the free time left over. quote:What are you guys balancing on your plate along with comic stuff? How do you make it work? I know for some people drawing is like breathing or eating and they can't imagine going without it for a day or even several hours, but as much as I dearly value the hobby, I don't share that blood need for it. So I'm just interested to hear how you guys make it work with other obligations, whether it finds away into your schedule one way or another or whether you kind of have to slap that ketchup bottle of life. This past year I've almost totally stopped updating and it makes me feel like poo poo, because if I don't draw I feel like poo poo, but I've got no loving time. 
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