The illustration where I discovered who the things without arms and without legs were. I didn’t want to clean this one up, as it is the place of origin.
Transcript:
Today we stared at the sun until we went blind.
It was a good day.
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782 comics.
Thing 1: Sometimes I don’t have words, only pictures.
Thing 2: *astonished puff of air*
Thing 1: You wouldn’t understand.
Thing 2: *sad puff of air*
Things 1: Sometimes I worry about someone stealing my identity
Things 2: Do you have one?
Thing 1: No
Thing 1: I used to have arms
Thing 1: but then I got better
Thing 2: I need a hug
Thing 1: Ok
Words typed instead of written. What do you think? Yay cool bananas? Or bleh?
Thing 1: Do you ever wonder why?
a pause
Thing 2: Yes
Thing 1: Me too!
Process
I initially drew my things on plain white paper. Sadly I don’t have an awesome-sauce scanner, so I then redrew my things on the iPad. I’ve been using sketchbook (first the free express version, and I like their stuff so I’ve upgraded to pro). For the first few comics I imported the scanned image as a layer, reduced the opacity to 30% and then drew on top as a fresh layer.
I really like doing it all on my iPad. It saves me so much time with messy photo exporting/uploading/fiddling. These days I use my handy stylus (I enjoying a Trent Limir stylus) to draw directly into my iPad. I export the image to my photo gallery and then use my WordPress ap to create the new blog post. Sometimes I do some cropping or small adjustments using the free photoshop ap.
I’m not sure if the resolution is high enough for print quality, I haven’t been brave enough to find out! Sketchbook is made by the creators of autocad and it seems like quite a soundly put together piece of technology, certainly reasonably priced (free or $2).
Does anyone else have cool iPad tech to recommend? For drawing, cleanup or type-setting (or just plain cool.
Once I’ve found the sketchbook and hopefully gotten some better scans I will have some flipbook style animations to do (my first ever animated giffs), so recommendations for nifty animation as are very welcome too.
Squishy hugs,
Liz
Thing 2: Do you believe in me?
Thing 1: No
Thing 1: I have evidence
Thank you all, to everyone who believes in me oops! 😉 supports me, thinks kind thoughts, or takes the time to read. I value and appreciate you, and believe you are wonderful 🙂
Thing 1: I had a sad (smiles)
Thing 1: but I lost it (sad face)
So I’ve reached the scared part of updating and drawing. I have some things that folks like and I like, so now I don’t want to let people down. Drawing is easier than updating, so I’m glad I’ve got the write-a-thon egging me on. I only get to declare units of comic awesome if I upload it here – no cheating with scribbles I don’t think are good enough to share.
It’s interesting to see how the different comics resonate for different people. Some responses are expected, some are quite surprising. At the end of the day I hope each comic will stay true to the thingness of the things. I don’t want to let you down and give you a disappointing experience, but even more than that, I don’t want to let the things down.
Thing 1: I had a sad (smiles)
Thing 1: but I lost it (sad face)
Thing 1: It might be scared
Thing 2: and lonely
Nothing like looking at something after it’s gone public!
The sad feels a bit incomplete, but it might be the right kind of incomplete… A space that lets the mind wander… But it might not be. Anyway, an hour after I posted the things an alternative sprang to mind. I’ve quickly sketched it up, afraid if I waited it would disappear or I’d become self conscious. You can read in the lines that I’m a little dizzy, but I promise I’ll go back to eating my soup now (it’s carrot, ginger and coconut… I should have put chilies in).
Anyhow, I’d love to know which on you like better.
Thing 2: I’m angry all the time
Thing 1: really?
Thing 2: no
Thing 2: I just like how the words sound