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  A*'s Google+ page, inking photos, nuke MarsNov 09, 2011 9:17 AM PST | url
 
Added 1 new A* page:I think I've figured out a couple useful techniques in this whole ink wash thing in the past few days:
- Drop straight water on very dark ink or wash and let it run a bit for a very organic kind of gradient effect
- Use black lines only selectively, in areas where you need a really sharp contrast, and it will leave the forms open to light and give a much more natural, less cartoony look
 
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Google just enabled fan page thingies on their Google+ social networking site, so I had to go ahead and make pages on G+ for my various comic series, including A*. If you use Google+, click on these button thingies to go to the pages, then add them to one of your circles to get updates from my comics right in your G+ stream!
 
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Unless you look like some kind of insane spambot, I'm pretty good about circling back, so yes I'm saying you can probably get some easy follows out of me. >_> And if you need a sixth, there's always my personal G+, too!
 
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For some reason I figured I'd take a photo of today's page midway through--this is after the pure ink (plus some straight water on that ink in parts) phase, before hitting it with my prepared washes of varying degrees of gray:
 
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And the final version from sort of the same perspective, for comparison:
 
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This recent Reuters article says that NASA's got their new Mars rover, the Mars Science Laboratory, in Florida in preparation for its November 25th lift-off for the red planet aboard an Atlas 5 rocket. After landing on Mars in August of next year, the MSL's rover, Curiosity, which is five times the size of its predecessors, Spirit and Opportunity, will truck around the 154-km-wide Gale Crater--which has an unusually large 5 km high central peak--for a year or so, examining the environment in a quest to determine whether or not Mars was ever suitable to hosting microbial life. Unlike the earlier rovers, Curiosity has an internal, plutonium-decay power source, the Boeing-built Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator, so it can't go dead if buried in dust like the solar-powered Spirit. The MMRTG has a power output over four times greater (2.5 kilowatt hours/day) than the solar panels of the earlier rovers.
 
 
 
 
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