Blogging on the go
I've just installed the WordPress app on my iPhone so now I just have to see if it works.
If you're reading this then I guess it does. Will that mean I'll write more blog posts? Probably not, but it's nice to have the option. Also, there's no real practical way to post comics via the iPhone (well there kinda is, but they wouldn't be good quality).
On that note, I just finished the latest strip. It will go up at midnight. I'm going to aim for regular Monday and Thursday postings. Time will tell if I can keep that up.
New technique
So what I've been doing so far is scratching each panel of the comic into my small moleskine notebook (9 x 14cm) using a cheap fountain pen and a red biro. I'd then photograph the panels with my camera phone and edit them into the strip in Photoshop. I'd whiten the speech bubbles but leave the rest as it was. The yellow lighting of my room giving the strip its yellow texture.
I did that for speed and ease. It meant I could draw the comic while sitting on the tube home (sometimes very drunk - though with my style I'm not sure which panels are the intoxicated ones). Unfortunately it had its drawbacks. My cameraphone isn't that good (I personally have never come across one that is) and I didn't have much room to add details to the images.
So today I invested in an A4 size sketchbook and a scanner. I'm still using the cheap fountain pen, although sometimes I take the ink cartridge out and draw with that, but the colouring is done afterwards in Photoshop.
I'm already liking the extra freedom the space affords, even if the strips will now take longer to produce, and now I have full size versions of the panels in case I want to reproduce them in another format.
Not a bad start to the year.
