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| Buns in the oven--and a new art show! | May 31, 2014 2:16 AM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Man, cloaks are awesome. We should definitely have more cloaks. In drawings, anyway. In real life I imagine they probably just get in the way or tangled up a lot.
Here's another sketch I drew and sent out to a supporter of A*'s Patreon campaign as their due reward for supporting the comic during the month of April:
I've really had fun with the last couple pen sketches! They haven't gotten along so well, visually anyway, with watercolor when I've tested them together, but I'm kind of getting a yen to do some more just-pen drawings, at least—maybe like twice this size (that would be 14"x10"), and putting them up for auction on eBay. Got some other stuff on the burner currently but maybe I'll get time cleared up for that at some point.
Speaking of other things on the burner, this Sunday with my mom and dad I'll be taking down the current A* art show—at the Essential Bakery in Seattle's Wallingford neighborhood—and taking it across town a little ways, with a few new prints added in, and putting it up at *another* bakery. : D Hey, my dad finds these places to hang my stuff, I don't know if there's some pattern emerging here or something, hmm... :d : D Full details of the new show on Monday!
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| The dangers of gamma (and radiation, too) | May 30, 2014 5:10 AM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Hm! Hey maybe this going lighter on the watercolors thing is getting me somewhere after all—light washes, man, light washes. Then you just lower the gamma a tad in Photoshop (to 0.34 in this case—although if yesterday's is any indication then tomorrow I will come back and re-adjust that about four times : PPP, eventually ending up back where I started... (UPDATE: Yep, decided it was too murky—gotta get over trying to make watercolors oil-paint-dark :p—and went with lighter 39/0.5 setting)), and voila! Swirly dark colors for the webcomic, but the pencil lines haven't been lost. A reader pointed out that I could use ink but in the tests I've done with ink, it is so much darker than even the darkest watercolors that it just kills the sort of light field they generate, and everything just turns into fill-in-the-lines—whereas the pencil (this is a Japanese 4B) occupies just about the same tonal range as the watercolors, and also reacts to their washes and to the texture of the paper in ways similar to the paint.
Another thing I did that has seemed to help me before is painting the big dark thing first—the cloak, in this case (it was the dress in 21:19 and the burglar's shaded side in 21:55). That seems to sort of anchor the colors of the scene in my head—and also on the palette—and then you can go lighter from there by just adding water, basically. And in this case I next did the lightest non-white things—the red lights—so I had that other bookend reference set, too, and between the two I could just have fun with mixing and sloshing things around to fill in the rest. More or less.
I guess we'll see if this falls apart with the next change in lighting, as is usually the case. ; )
And since I'm going relatively light on the colors this isn't all the revealing, but in case you were for some reason wondering what the pencils looked like before the paint got on them, here's a photo I posted earlier in the day (to my Instagram, which cross-posts it to my tumblr and my Twitter) (it was a while back because I spent hours agonizing over gamma—like, my monitor *seems* to be calibrated to gamma 2.2 according to the all the little visual tests I know of, so why do my images look darker on all my mobile devices? Are those calibrated to a different gamma scheme? ... Hm, according to the gamma test in this app, not really... And I don't think the Photoscientia banding tests I just linked work correctly on them, because they test as very low gamma numbers (like 1.4) which would mean they were very *bright*. Harumph. So did Google disable the gamma adjustment capability from Android OS versions 4.2.2 and up (as one gamma app developer claims) to hide a devious gamma plot??!? (Speaking of gamma and Android apps, searching revealed an app that claims to be able to detect gamma radiation using your mobile device's camera (the comments are interesting : P)):
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| Summer swimming pool colors on the brain? | May 29, 2014 2:30 AM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Experimented with a couple things when making today's page. First was going lighter on the watercolors, to let the pencils stand out a bit more; I've been meaning to do that for a while and generally not getting to it, but I was spurred on by thinking that the way I'd painted yesterday's page, with some pretty bold dark strokes on Selenis' cloak and so forth, left it a little too difficult to take in; on the other hand, I really like how the background to her left and right, yesterday, came out, and all in all the high contrast on her face and cloak kind of works itself out if you take in the thing as whole rather than scrutinizing just her face so much...maybe? Today's lighter, (kinda more Moebius-like?) coloring does have its up sides... I guess the trick is knowing when and where to go more one way or the other, hmph!
Second thing was jiggling the colors around a little with a "Selective Color" adjustment layer in Photoshop, which isn't one of the adjustment layer types I've really messed with before—but it let me take some magenta out of the blues and neutrals, and desaturate the blues by adding a little black (and lighten the red in the doorway by subtracting black), all to give the colors a slightly tinted/faded look (I also used a Hue/Saturation layer with a gradient to add the reddish highlight at the bottom of the doorway) that maybe conjures up some vintage-y atmosphere—kind of like how photographs would fade and yellow/green a bit under sunlight, maybe? I dunno : p—smoothes out some of the watercolor blends, and lets the pencil linework come forward a little more. Not sure how much of that sort of thing I want to be doing—partly it was necessitated due to painting clumsily with the blues and too dark with the reds—but um there is a certain look in there somewhere, perhaps.
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| Crash landing in style | May 27, 2014 8:56 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Here's another sketch recently sent as a reward to a reader who supported A* through Patreon for the month of April : )):
I appreciate the support and I hope everyone is enjoying the sketches! I sure am : D This one was handy for letting me get in a bit of costume design.
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| Dear Mr. Breathed | May 26, 2014 11:01 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:There's a sort of documentary—maybe more of a eulogy—of Bill Watterson's newspaper comic strip of days gone by, "Calvin and Hobbes," on Netflix Streaming: Dear Mr. Watterson doesn't start well, with little clips of actors you don't really care about talking about why they simply adore Watterson's strip, and the reclusive Watterson himself is of course nowhere to be found anywhere in the thing, and I don't think there's much in the way of actual factual info you can't find in much more concise form elsewhere, but there were a few things I'm glad I skimmed through to find:- You get to see lots of newspaper comic strip artists whose work you may be familiar with, sitting in their home studios and talking (about how amazing Calvin and Hobbes is, of course...over and over). It's kind of neat to see they're actually people! Also I think maybe around the half hour mark—uh but don't quote me on that—there's a pretty long segment where you see a bunch of them working away at their comics (with their own voiceovers talking about how amazing Calvin and Hobbes is, again...), and I don't know about you, but I'm always curious to see what tools other artists use, how they use them, how they have their drawing table and workspace set up, etc.
- About 38 minutes in, you get to see some of Winsor McCay's actual original art for his strip, Little Nemo, and just how beautiful and **gigantic** and black and white his artwork really was. (Later they tease you with showing a guy looking at some of Watterson's original art, but they don't actually quite pan the camera around so you can see it yourself. >_<)
- One of the artists who does a lot of the talking is Berkeley Breathed, of Bloom County, etc fame. He's something of a character himself and always has something interesting to say (in this case, mostly about how amazing Watterson and Calvin and Hobbes are, but still, he at least puts it in interesting ways).
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| This must be what life was like in the 1800s | May 23, 2014 4:53 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Here's another sketch recently sent to a reader as the reward for their support of A* through Patreon last month (aside from helping me pay some bills while working on A*, supporting the comic through Patreon at the $10 level and up is, in effect, a way to take out a subscription for me to draw and mail you a new original illustration of your very own each month! : o):
Thanks to everyone for the support!!
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When you are checking the tracking information for an item you are really kind of hoping will arrive today, what you do not want to see is the last status update being from 2:00 am, somewhere in the mountains of Montana, saying delivery is delayed indefinitely due to "train derailment." : o
Man, trains!
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| What an amazing smell you've discovered | May 22, 2014 10:56 PM PDT | url |
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Added 2 new A* pages:Here's another sketch sent to a reader earlier this month as a reward for their very generous support last month of A* through Patreon : D :
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And we're off on a brand new episode! What adventures lie in store?? It sure doesn't seem to be starting off very romantically... >_>
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| End of episode 21! E-book available! | May 21, 2014 9:07 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:That's the end of episode 21! (21 ending on 121, neat! Didn't even plan that!) Probably had people thinking A* had turned into a romance comic for a while there. : D Tomorrow we start episode 22, which prrrrrrobably won't have any mushy stuff in it. Much.
Meanwhile, if you like your A* in portable .pdf form, you'll be happy to know that the complete episode 21 e-book is now available from the episodes & e-books page, for whatever amount you feel it's worth (and I will be sending it to A* supporters on Patreon at the $3 level and up as part of their reward at the beginning of next month).
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There was a baby bird in my back yard today! It couldn't fly, I guess, so it just hopped around at the edge of the yard, fluffing its feathers to keep warm and peeping while its parent flew around hunting up grub—when the parent came back, the little bird would hustle out of whatever cover it had found, up to where the parent landed, beak open as wide as possible for the parent to stuff food into; this continued for several hours-long sessions throughout the day. Babies are a lot of work! : o There was also an older sibling in attendance part of the time; this one could fly, and would fly off with the parent, but didn't seem to be much for food gathering—AND it demanded food along with baby! At one point a hummingbird buzzed the family, to the consternation of the hard-working parent. Can't catch no breaks!
Man, nature!
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| Shoulder Pads are Hip | May 20, 2014 8:11 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Here's a reward sketch sent to a supporter of A* through Patreon for their help last month:
Huzzah! Thanks for the support!! : D
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| Very first A* original art page is for sale! | May 19, 2014 8:01 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:The very first A* original art page has just become available for sale—it was out touring in art shows : D—so if the thought of having that particular milestone in A* art for your very own appeals to you, you can buy it instantly from the archives
—assuming nobody else has beaten you to it. It's one of just a handful of original pages remaining from that episode. : o
That was way back in episode 13, page 136, when I decided to give up digital—prompted by ergonomic issues, primarily—for the wilds of traditional art. Has it been worth it? Heck, I don't know... I've sure learned a lot in the process, though!
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| Everything will surely go according to plan! | May 17, 2014 1:24 AM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Here is a sketch I mailed off to a reader last week as a reward for their support of A* through Patreon :"D :
Which gets us to the weekend, huzzah! Next week I *think* we'll be wrapping up this episode and starting the next, assuming I don't get writer's block when I sit down to write out the dialogue for the first scene. ^_^
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| An almost sketch | May 16, 2014 12:10 AM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Here's a sketch I made as a reward for a supporter on Patreon, but then something was bothering me about it, so I didn't use it:
Now that I look at it again...it's actually not bad, by my standards. There *is* a thing or two that kind of bugs me, like the length of the nose or the angle of the chest...and anyway it's kinda smudgy after being tossed around at the front of my sketchbook for a while. So nope, nope, I'll just have to do more sketches until I get one I can send out. : P
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| More and older space science news-a-rama! | May 14, 2014 6:27 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:More space science news (getting more and more outdated ; ) quick-linky style!
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| Recent space science news-a-rama! | May 13, 2014 8:40 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:In the interests of some day getting through my backlog of nifty space news, lets do this rapid-fire title link style, starting with the most recent and starting to work back : P. These are all from the BBC:
- Self-healing plastic mimics blood clotting (useful for space suits, etc!)
- Paralysed person 'to walk' at World Cup
- UK centre to shoot for nuclear fusion record (I just love photos of the interiors of fusion reactors : D)
- US teenager survives five-hour flight in wheel well ("Since records began in 1947, about 100 wheel well stowaways are thought to have attempted to board flights, of whom around three-quarters died."—potentially useful story info for us writers : P)
- Birth of 'new Saturn moon' witnessed
- Scientists hail synthetic chromosome advance ("first synthetic chromosome for yeast")
- Icy body found orbiting far from Sun (a 450-km dwarf planet in the Oort Cloud)
- Icy Chariklo asteroid has ring system (sci-fi artists, now you have more things to put rings around : p)
Well, that put a tiny dent in the backlog. : P
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| Yee-haw! | May 12, 2014 8:28 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:I did this as a costume study / Patreon reward sketch
but I didn't think it came out good enough for either. : P For blog fodder, though, it's A+! : D >_>
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| Skip the Baggage Claim! | May 10, 2014 3:40 AM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Here's another monthly reward sketch for a Patreon supporter of A*:
Microgravity, it's the only way to fly!
We have one more panel of this scene, then one final scene, and we're done with this weird episode. ; ) And yesterday when I realized that I also realized that I only had the very general idea for the *next* episode, rather than an actual story, but somehow between going to bed and getting up in the morning, I had the full story! And I'm pretty stoked about it, I think it's gonna be pretty fun; we'll learn a thing or two about Selenis (a few of which very astute readers *might* have been able to put together previously on their own...), she'll learn a thing or two about herself, we'll meet some funky new characters, I'll get to try some different types of environments in watercolor, and get a bit of Dune out of my system in the process. : )
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| Life is Better with Starfield Dresses | May 08, 2014 9:03 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Met an A* reader in real life today—they'd won a few of my recent pages of original A* art on eBay and happened to be passing through town, so they dropped by to pick up the art in person and save on shipping. : )
Here's a sketch that is now in the hands of an A* reader as their reward for supporting A* through Patreon for the month of March : D:
Sparklies! : D I guess I did kind of pull a Liefeld on the feet there, huh : o Currently making good headway through the April reward sketches, so I'll get to start showing photos of those soon. : )
Oh yeah one other thing I did today (and I got a haircut! man talk about a red-letter day) was to get the self-sealing kind of envelopes (greeting card sized) for mailing the reward sketches out—I'd originally gotten the kind you have to lick to seal, because they were like a buck cheaper, but man, the taste got to me ;Ppp. Oh well actually come to think of it the real reason was that—am I the only one who has this problem?—I just had a different bunch of lick-'em-style envelopes start to, you know, lick themselves, so they're partly glued shut when you pull them out of the box. That always seems to happen to me with those things I guess, so thank goodness for the technology that now brings us the peel-and-stick kind!
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| Sketchy on Sketching | May 07, 2014 9:53 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Still trying to see if I can pull of this sketchy style; I like parts of this, and I think the parts I don't like have to do with weaknesses in the pencil drawing—this approach absolutely requires a strong pencil drawing in order to succeed! Speaking of which, here's a sketch I did a few weeks back, late one night after being frustrated with the day's A* drawing, thinking it was too plain and dull, and trying to prove to myself that I could draw something stylish:
Not that I'm a style maven, but that's at least got something that a lot of my drawings don't. I was really leaning into the point of the pencil there too, gosh! So yeah if I could do pencil work that strong each time that would be swell. : P Of course it's easier to draw when you're just kind of doodling and not needing to draw some very specific pose or something for a story, but, hey, practice practice practice. I know that I can definitely get a bit better with the pencil, at least; I'm a little rusty compared to where I got when I was drawing just in pencil an episode or two ago.
And I'd like to get better at abstracting it a bit, like I kind of did in this sketch; I was very happy with what happened when I erased the profile line of Selenis' cheek in today's A* page, for instance, although that was after I'd already put down the watercolor and it couldn't erase completely, so it's still kind of visible in the final version—so I gotta get wise to doing that kind of thing earlier in the process, really breaking the drawing down and making an actual design out of it instead of just being like "oh I drew a face." : P
Also I keep thinking I shouldn't rely on my eraser as a crutch so much, and just go with things and see what happens, more like I do when I'm "just sketching." Obviously there will be plenty of times where I really *do* need to erase...I think... See this is where it gets fuzzy for me still. : P
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| One more crack at tumblr's favorite A* page! | May 06, 2014 11:10 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Thanks to the first sale falling through, a page of original art from this episode that some of you may be interested in—it was the most popular ever on tumblr! : ooo—is back up for auction on eBay:
So you've got one more chance to get it at the starting auction price of $4.99 before it reverts to being sold directly from this site for my usual flat $50. : D
(In case you lost track of which page it was, it was page 76!)
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| If Humpty Dumpty was a robot at USPS | May 05, 2014 11:53 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:The mail robot was broken! I spent the morning packing up three shipments of original A* art to mail off (I had to redo one because after it was all taped up I remembered that I hadn't signed some of the older art yet : ooo), and when I finally got them down to the post office, I found my poor, trusty mail robot all in pieces. The line for having a human mail things off for you was an absolute madhouse as a result (and besides which, unlike the robot they make me write out the full address myself, and my handwriting isn't the most legible stuff around so I always worry more about them getting where they're supposed to go that way), so I bailed and will just have to go back tomorrow and hope the mail robot has been put back together again. : oo
Tried a bit of a different approach to the art today, kinda like how it worked out (almost a quasi Vampire Hunter D thing going on there, maybe? : o). When I started using watercolor, one of my original ideas was to keep it pretty light, just accentuating the pencils rather than upstaging them; I kind of got away from that in various ways, but I think this way can actually work quite well as long as I have the pencils right—and this would be a good thing to force me away from overworking the pencils and spending hours trying to refine them to smooth(er) curves and solid shapes; if I can get a really effective sketchy look going—and consistently decent!—that would be super—and it would help keep me a little more sane, to boot! We'll see how long I last with this. : P ; )
Finished the last of the reward sketches for Patreon supporters in March today, so I guess tomorrow I can start on the ones for April! : ) Gotta get a fresh round of e-book rewards sent out, too. Pretty happy with how the last couple sketches went; I think in general my sketching improved a lot over the last month—or at least, moved in a direction I wanted it to move in—and the additional practice from the Patreon reward sketches certainly helped!
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| Monochromatic watercolor -> space nebulae | May 03, 2014 9:42 PM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:As I mentioned in the last post, the variety of spacey colors in the backgrounds here are coming from manipulating the underlying scanned watercolor in Photoshop with Hue/Saturation and Levels adjustment layers. The trick I found to giving those layers something to work with in the watercolor involves intentionally washing away part of the watercolor that's initially painted down. As you can see in the photo I took of the original artwork (which, like all the newest A* pages I do, is up for auction on eBay),
the top of the outer space section, except for the part seen in Selenis' dress, is lighter than it is lower down. It would have been very tricky to paint all those lightened swirl areas directly, but it's easy to do by subtracting: I painted the whole area the same dark purple, let that dry, turned the page upside down, took a brush dipped just in plain water, and then scrubbed away at the areas of outer space I wanted to lighten, just letting the water on the brush pick the dried watercolor up and wash it away; it sounds weird, but the heavy 300 lb watercolor paper I use makes it simple, since the pigment piles up really heavily on the top of the paper. So simply washing away the areas you want to lighten with a watery brush is pretty much all you need to do; once you scan the lightened swirls you've made into Photoshop, a few black-and-white-gradient-filled Hue/Saturation layers over the painted swirls will produce a really natural looking colorized effect, because the texture of the pigments piled up and washed around on the thick paper hides the artificial nature of the Photoshop gradients you're laying over it.
Those gradients, by the way, look like this:
As you can see, the adjustment gradients are just made from simple Linear or Radial "Foreground to Transparent" black and white applications of the Gradient tool. I've found that I can keep more subtle colors by making the lower, initial Levels layers—used to darken the scan, which always comes out light and washed-out looking from the scanner—partially transparent, and then putting a final, fully opaque Levels layer (or two! I needed a second to get the pencil lines of Selenis' hand and the bartender's face, in this case) over the top to bring the dark end of the image down to pure black. Most of the Hue/Saturation layers are in "Hue" blending mode, but one or two are left on "Normal," which usually has the effect of lightening the affected colors, giving space a bit of a glow in selected areas. All of the Hue/Saturation layers are just manipulating the "Hue" component, moving along the color wheel to change a purple to a blue or red, for instance—except for the top-most Hue/Saturation layer, which applies a tiny Saturation boost to the whole image to restore the bit of color vibrancy that gets lost in all the overlapping manipulations.
As I'm making the adjustment layers, I'm always working with them over the scanned artwork, so I don't see them on their own—it's kind of interesting to see what that looks like, though, which is something like this:
I used the Polygonal Lasso tool to make a simple mask dividing the foreground from the space background, so I could manipulate the colors in one or the other separately when I wanted to create a contrast between them; the Polygonal Lasso leaves sharp edges, but because my computer chugs when I try to work in color at the 600 ppi scan size of the scanned artwork, I do the coloring in a 10%-sized copy of that, the same size as the normal comic page it'll end up as (956 pixels wide, whereas the scanned artwork is 9560 pixels wide), then scale it up 1000% and apply a 30-pixel Gaussian Blur to the gradient layers to smooth away the enlarged pixel edges, which also has the effect of fuzzing the Lasso-created masking edges so they don't stand out in the final artwork. I drop the enlarged and blurred color adjustment layers over the full-sized scanned artwork to composite the whole thing together—and then I add the text over that, save it as a high-res TIF, and from that produce the smaller screen-sized versions you see on the web site.
(You'll also notice that the floor seen in the original artwork was painted lighter than the outer space scene through the window behind it—that seemed to work well in the watercolor but was all wrong when it came to darkening the scanned watercolor up and coloring the outer space areas, so I had to do a fairly radical artificial darkening of the floor, bleh. :"P)
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| A* art at Seattle's Essential Baking in May! | May 02, 2014 5:37 AM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:For the month of May, you can visit vibrant A* artwork on display in The Essential Baking Company Bakery & Café at 1604 N 34th Street, Wallingford, Seattle (map):
They've got an improbably huge parking lot, I guess from back in the day when the building was the Oroweat bread factory. But now it's a warm and cozy café with lots of windows, an outdoor dining veranda (which is where everyone was in this weird early May heatwave we had today : o), tons of delicious-looking baked goods and other edibles, and all the coffee options a Seattlite might demand, I think (I'm not an expert in that area actually : P). And, this month, my framed artwork—including a bunch of never-before-displayed prints of recent work—hanging off various walls, like these:
Thanks to my dad for getting me in there in the first place, and both him and my mom for helping get the artwork hammered into their brick walls today in 90-degree weather. : o I've actually been to this bakery on my own before, when I was searching out a loaf of a particular Essential Baking bread my local supermarket had run out of, so it's kind of neat to have my art in there. Anyway if you're cruising through Seattle's Wallingford neighborhood—this is right on N 34th St, the main drag that winds along the waterfront there—and could use some refreshment and a dose of A* art this month, now you know where to stop! : )
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It took three Levels and six Hue/Saturation adjustment layers to get the colors in today's page to come out like they did. : P
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| Sleeve Garters and To-Do Lists | May 01, 2014 3:07 AM PDT | url |
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Added 1 new A* page:Those thingies on the bartenders' arms are called sleeve garters. I had to look that up! Dress-up is fun.
I'll be setting up yet another local show of A* art here in Seattle tomorrow with my parents—full details once it's all in place! Got some new prints of recent-ish A* pages to put up.
Thanks to everyone who helped make the just-ended Supermassive Art Sale a success, you took a pretty solid chunk out of my stacks of A* original artwork. : ) Now that the sale has ended, the original art available through the site (the widget at the lower left corner of a page of A* art will show you its availability—"original art" in gold letters means it's available for immediate purchase through the site by clicking said golden letters to get to the purchasing page) is back to its normal prices of $50 per piece of art ($25 for the pencil-only pages I did around episode 19 or so), so if you were waiting until the sale ended so you could feel good about giving an artist something close to a living wage when buying their artwork, now's the time to buy! : D >_> Also, keep in mind that the original art pages behind the latest week's worth of A* panels are always up for auction on eBay via that same lower-left corner widget; the bidding starts at just $4.99, so that can be a good way to get the latest artwork at a bargain price, depending on how heated the bidding gets. : o
I'm a bit behind on replying to some emails from readers, which is awful but there you have it. I will try to get caught up soon! I do strive to reply to everyone who writes to me, but sometimes it takes me a while to work up the courage. : ooo
Oh yeah and contributions from supporters of A* on Patreon should be getting processed by that site within the next I think its 48 hours or so, and then I'll have to get started on another monthly round of reward sketches, whoooeeeee :oooDDD Actually I still have one left to do from last month and um hmm three left to show you photos of, so, lots to do!
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