Some Things Just Feel Nice

New technique

admin — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:02:33 +0000

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.

Aboot

admin — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Loose

admin — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Moose

admin — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Tricks Of The Trade

admin — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Exceptions

admin — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Beard

admin — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Gay

admin — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Cod Liver Oil

admin — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:00:00 +0000

So it begins…

admin — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:43:00 +0000

This is Some Things Just Feel Nice. A webcomic that will be updated twice weekly, though on which days I don’t know yet. Hopefully we’ll get some kind of, y’know, routine going. This blog however will just be updated whenever I have something worth saying. Which isn’t all that often.

To kick us off, here’s the sketch that inspired this whole mess: