January 26th, 2009
212 - Duck
Any thoughts on the background (stone wall)? I’m playing around with textures but I don’t like this one that much since I find it doesn’t go well with the drawing style of the characters. I’ll keep playing with it so you’ll likely see some experimenting in coming strips…
January 26th, 2009 at 9:16 am
Hi, i think that the stone wall that is in this strip looks good, can’t realy say why, but it’s my oppinion
oh and thanks for this comic
January 26th, 2009 at 4:18 pm
Ain’t it always the way? Guys consult the manual, women go with intuition. Hilarity ensues.
One quick comment about the visuals: I know by the previous dialogue that the book is careening towards the Chancellor’s head in the last panel, but the way the speed-lines are drawn, it looks like it’s vibrating up and down in mid-air. Perhaps angle the book so all the speed-lines can be trailing to the left? Just a thought.
January 26th, 2009 at 6:57 pm
Juuso: Thanks!
Craig: Woah. Woah. Where did you see me asking about the book in the fourth panel? From now on, everybody must keep all comments directly linked to my specific questions. I will tolerate aboslutely no new topics without being consulted beforehand.
Anybody else have anything else they want to say about topics that are not the backgrounds???
January 26th, 2009 at 7:38 pm
Did I say “book”? I meant “wall”. And did I say “speed lines”? I meant “textures”. Silly me.
January 26th, 2009 at 9:41 pm
That’s better.
January 29th, 2009 at 1:26 am
The wall looks nice though it is a tad bit too blurry compared to how vivid the characters in the foregrounds are. The difference in style between the background and the characters kinda make me read those separately and my eyes bounced between them. If the lines in the wall can be more solid, making it more in style with the characters, it might be more pleasant to be viewed.
January 29th, 2009 at 7:14 am
Fina: Thanks for the input. Ever since I started the strip, my thought had been for the backgrounds to be soft and blurry on purpose so they would not distract from the foreground characters. But your comments are giving me something to consider.
January 29th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
Wall is OK. I know - no limits for perfection, but please don’t be distracted from creativity with that.
BTW - your comic is one of the best I’ve seen. You really rock!
January 29th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
Chail: Hang on, you say my comic is one of the best you’ve seen, but the wall is … “OK”. Just “OK“??? You say that I really rock, but you are clearly contradicting yourself when you say that my wall is just OK. Which one is it??? Can’t you people see that I hang the entire success of this comic on the wall in the background?!? (no pun intended) That the only thing standing between me and future fame and riches is the rendering of that wall?!?
I’m sorry, I kind of lost it there for a minute, but I’m better now.
February 6th, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Too tick to read a book…