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Fun And Games In Iraq! Critiques please...

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maxcavsm:
So trying to keep out of the 4 panel carbon copy, I came up with this idea. This is panel 2 of 3 for my next comic.



But I'm having a hell of an idea with coloring the damn uniforms. Here's the issue: every "shot" of Mac working on untangling himself from his "malfunction", his uniform changes "patches" of color. I don't think anyone would actually care or notice, but having to color each single patch of each five images of Mac is a pain in the ass using the "shift+wand" then switch panels from ink to color then back and forth. Is there a shortcut? I used the magnetic lasso to color all of the first Mac on the far left, but then I have to go back through and switch colors over and over....

maxcavsm:
Learn something new every day.

Well, I posted on my sites, primarily because I've spent way way too much time on this one. Time to move on, or the boys are never even going to see the border of Iraq.

So "invert selection". Nice trick. I like it.

I like the "paint the lines brown" idea. I will definately have to give that a whirl. Now I tried for this one the "inverse selection" on a second copied layer of the inking, but when selected 1) it wouldn't let me click once and color the whole selection and 2) when I misclicked, didn't click white space and clicked a line, it would darken the line with a green layer. By the time I got done with some of the colorings, Mac had a dark dark green outline over each and every line. In other words, ugly.

Things got even worse when I added the background. But I eventually just blasted through it and the final product is posted. You can tell that the manually colored the first Mac in the second panel, while I did the trick of inverse selection on the rest of them. The background ended up bleeding through the green that I used in the uniform. I think I just lost track of my layers, so when I flattened it...well...

Anyway, take a day or so to game myself silly, and then it's off to Fort Bragg with Mac to meet his new roommate (comic #6).

Oh, and because I'm using photobucket for posting, it's only allowing 800x600 or 1024x800. While I manually "save for web" inside of Photoshop, I did 600x 922 pixels, and it worked nicely. Anyway, I saved this one 800x600, and the size difference is apparent already.

maxcavsm:
Okay, I was SUPPOSED to have a visual representation of my issue, but...well, my stupid scanner is acting up.

Anyway, the new scanner is posted...err, comic. Had a nice time with this one. But after I sketched it, I realized that if I wanted to make the argument, I could show that I haven't been able to draw two exact copies of my main character yet. As a matter of fact, one could argue that I've drawn several "different" characters so far.

Too bad they're all the same guy.

So I sat down and tried to do a character sheet, and found that even THEN, I was having problems creaing the same face, over and over from different angles.

Suggestions? How do I get around this problem so Mac looks like..well, Mac?

öde:
In comic 2 it looks awfully like it's his thumbs against his forehead instead of his pinkies. They separate too far down the hands, I think.

Your progress and current skill is impressive and I can't wait for more comics!

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