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The folks in the japanese community are one step away from writing japanese textbook fanfic. Heh. I obviously didn't make enough of an effort looking for subtext in Okamoto sensei's 'Japanisch für Anfänger'. ;o) (eta: eh, what am I saying. 'Grundkenntnisse Japanisch' is the title... excellent book, btw! Even though I'm pretty sure Maria san and Berger san are just good friends.)

I finished work yesterday. Almost two weeks ahead of schedule, which is good because I can use the time to take care of some family matters and other things. 24 pages of artwork in two weeks... It's weird how fast I can work if I really set my mind to it. I'm rather pleased with how it turned out, too - though I haven't yet dared look at yesterday night's work... I got a feeling those pages might need quite a few finishing touches; I was rushing it a tad. And though I'm not quite the perfectionist like *cough* other people on my friends list... but yeah, I guess I'm gonna tinker with it a bit more. I want it to be really good.

Anyway, if all goes well I might actually have time to get back to work on the comic. I'm looking forward to doing more ink work. I haven't done much ink in the past years, but I'm starting to use it more now. It just brings the colour to glow more than a pencil line can. I just need endless hours of practice to get the confidence one needs... drawing with ink is so different from pencil work, where you just erase a line you don't like. Anyway, lots of possibilities.

Eep, gotta run. Roomie's parents are coming; we're going to the christmas market :O)

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Wow! That's fantastic. What a pace.
Well, it was a rather small format, I should add *grin*. About 5 inches square each page, and most of the pages were double, so one large picture instead of two smaller ones. But yeah, normally that amount of work would take me three weeks, so I'm happy. And it wasn't particularly gruelling, even though I worked into the wee hours of the mornings. You know the feeling, like when you're running long distance, and you feel you can run forever... it felt cool; the other night I had to force myself to stop at five in the morning, because I know rationally that I can't pull all-nighters any more while body wanted to hear no such thing.

*blush* No, really, it's more about ugly panic than perfectionism.

Dude, seriously, it inspires me. Because I'm a lazy slacker at heart, and I *hate* redoing stuff. Hate it with a passion. And, well, I can't imagine going to such lengths as to re-drawing a scene four times but at least I want to put a bit more effort into polishing it up. Sometimes I'm content when it's good, even when I know that with an hour more work it could be even better. (Yesterday night was certainly such a moment...)

Ah, not quite so... because if you blow a line, you can just do the correction right over it and clean it up in PS before you color. Line work for comic-type stuff in PS is positively relaxing. :) All love to the precious stylus.

That's true (but what's PS?). For comic work that works fine (though I still think ink nib (is that the right word) or brush are harder to handle than a pencil. But that's probably just what you're more used too.

But lately I started to use copic multiliner to ink artwork that is to be coloured later. So I had to draw straight on the watercolour paper, and that paper is not really forgiving when it comes to scratching away or whiting out. It was daunting. But definitely interesting.

Pencilling, now that's relaxing :)

That's true (but what's PS?)

Photoshop. A seperate layer for line, an editable line, yay! Not to mention color that can be reimagined without the paper shredding and bleeding through. It's taken years off my life. :)

Illustration doesn't cut it on Photoshop yet, maybe, but straightforward comics are masochism any other way.