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astridv ([personal profile] astridv) wrote2004-12-07 02:05 pm

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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)

[identity profile] jwaneeta.livejournal.com 2004-12-07 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
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.