WWW: Ripping Off King Arthur #34 The Cantaloupe Kids Part Ten

[Scott Eiler]

On 3/12/2013 4:45 PM, Arthur Spitzer wrote:
> On 3/12/13 1:07 PM, Scott Eiler wrote:
>> On 3/12/2013 12:31 PM, Arthur Spitzer wrote:
>>>
>>> Give me Cantaloupe, or Give me...
>>>
>>> http://www.rippingoffkingarthur.com/2013/03/12/34-the-cantaloupe-kids-part-ten/
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I've noticed your panels usually have a sort of gray background which
>> comes from scanning the original art in.  Being the helpful and
>> insufferable dude I am, I'd considered pointing that out.  But I decided
>> against it because for all I knew, you liked it that way.  Now I can see
>> it was intentional.  Totally.
>>
>>> Arthur "Rhymes with Breath..." Spitzer
>>
>> Meth?
>>
>
> Yeah, I could probably adjust the contrast and brightness in my iPhoto
> program... or I could even put a picture in my paint program and touch
> every thing up... but I don't do that because I'm incredibly lazy.

... you mean you draw all those panel boundaries by hand, and you still 
call yourself lazy?


> (Was
> originally going to do this strip in color, but after trying to colorize
> one of the strips and realizing how scanned art makes using the fill-up
> tool a pain... I decided it would take too long to do that.  And that's
> why it's in black and white.)

That is probably a matter of fill-up tool settings.  Early in every 
editing session, I set mine to 99.9, meaning practically all gray 
becomes either black or white.  But black and white and gray works for 
you too, at least in an artistic sense.  It does take up extra storage, 
but pixels are cheap nowadays.


> As for today's webcomic within the webcomic being brighter, than the
> grimmer real world of the webcomic -- I wish I could say that was
> actually intentional... but that was probably more to using a cleaner
> piece of paper.
>
> Arthur "Just an accident..." Spitzer

Well, it worked.
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