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Jeph, could I get some help from you in regards to artwork?

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logosmonkey:
Oh also since my previous post really didn't touch on any of your actual questions...
1) Ok ... well see previous post.. I guess I did touch on one =P.
2) This ends up being a lot of person preference and something you'll probably just have to experiment with but .. I use 6h pencils.. just because I like a very light line before I lay down my ink however you could just as well use regular #2 pencils. I don't have any use for the photo-blue pencils. I tried them once and hated how soft they were. I assume someone has some real genuine use for these but I thinkt he majority of people use them because they look kinda cool. Paper wise I use strathmore bristol, usually with vellum texture though recently I've been using smooth and rather enjoy inking on it. Ink wise I use a mixture of Higgins black magic with a winsor and newton series 7 #2 brush and a few different pens that I've picked up here and there. The key to ink is to make sure it is archival quality and test the pens out to make sure they make a truly black line, a lot of black pens actually come out of the pen and dry brownish.. which sucks.
Now as far as I know Jeph uses none of this.. at least not on the strip because he uses a Wacom tablet and I assume Adobe photoshop. This is always a viable path, honestly in the end you save a but load on supplies.. or just be like me and buy a wacom along with all your other junk!
3) I'm not 100% sure what you are asking for here.. if its for a program to touch up your pen/ink work after scanning... I'd say Adobe Photoshop. I do all my final work in it and really can't think of anything that could compete with it power wise... except maybe the GIMP.

KibBen:
The one thing that's helped me more then anything else in drawing, painting, whatever, has been practice.

The next best thing was the book by Betty Edwards; Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. It's just one giant, awesome excercise in training your mind to draw what you see, not what you think you see.

deepbluevibes:

--- Quote from: KibBen ---The one thing that's helped me more then anything else in drawing, painting, whatever, has been practice.

The next best thing was the book by Betty Edwards; Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. It's just one giant, awesome excercise in training your mind to draw what you see, not what you think you see.
--- End quote ---


whoa whoa whoa, where do you get this?
this is the EXACT problem i have with drawing, i have a very abstract, chaotic mind, and i can't really "get" the figures of people, they seem abstract to me and i can't really draw them correctly due to this.

sounds weird but it's true.

logosmonkey:
That is an excellent book. All the exercises are great... you can get it here Also most public libraries have it.

KibBen:
deepbluevibes: In actuality, almost everyone's mind works like that, because we make symbols out of everything. It's a side effect of being a written culture - we become predominantly left-brained in order to deal with the deluge of symbols. It's not a bad thing, it's just something that can be bothersome when trying to draw.

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