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Visigothan · Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2001 10:40 pm

I never posted the final outcome of the conversion my comic strip underwent... Originally it was hand-drawn:

Recently I've been doing it digitally:

...Any opinions/suggestions?

(edited -- wrong image url)

[ June 06, 2001: Message edited by: Visigoth ]

nickmarksdotcom · member Member # Joined: 17 Feb 2001 Posts: 244

I am no comic professional....yet!!! But I like them.

I like the first one...the second one is so so. Suggestions I would make is maybe add more of a background...just silouttes of heads maybe like they are in a party. Also the first one has a great cartoony type feel that you seem to have lost in the second one. When one works with the computer it is easy to make everything perfect..almost to perfect. Character and feelings can sometimes come from the irregularity of hand drawings. Having the lines always perfect inn the second one seems to make it look more flat and lifeless.. I like the panel boxes of the first better then the perfectly straight boxes on the second. I feel this way also about the word balloons ... also the font...I think you should try a more cartoony font. I hope these comments help. They show promise. The first one is pretty funny.

Visigothan · Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2001 10:56 pm

Ahh... I was hoping you'd reply to this, nickmarksdotcom.

Check out the rest of the strips (they're in series, so no one strip is really a "standalone" funny, except for the very first).
http://www.ramenbudget.com/calamitus/index.html

One of the things I've been trying to go for, is the kind of bleak, stark "plainness" of it -- The expressionless, emotionless characters spouting blunt, crude, yet strangely entertaining dialogue...hehe...
Anyway...Thanks for the comments.

(edit: god I'm a fuckwad today...forgot the URL)

[ June 06, 2001: Message edited by: Visigoth ]

neebhore · Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2001 12:46 am

Yeah, I remember that Devil one from your website! I thought it was quite amusing, glad you're doing more of them

I think i prefer the digital ones, just look alot neater to me. I like the simpleness of your characters, but im not sure if it would look any better if you made them slightly more dynamic?

'Nectarine- · member Member # Joined: 11 Mar 2001 Posts: 50

they are nicely drawn, I like especially the socond one.

but would you be mad at me if I tell you I find them as funny as a discussion about quantum physics?

sorry.. =P

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*Rachel*

Visigothan · Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2001 3:00 am

You didn't read the rest of the strips, did you. ;P