All depends on what standard you are working at, how much of it you are doing yourself, and what else you have going on in your life
Thats how it is with me anyhow ;)
First Wallace and Gromit took Nick Park 6/7years ['82-'89]
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All depends on what standard you are working at, how much of it you are doing yourself, and what else you have going on in your life
Thats how it is with me anyhow ;)
First Wallace and Gromit took Nick Park 6/7years ['82-'89]
but if I draw my comics on paper, I suppose I have to draw them in A4 size paper to be able to scan them. I cannot draw them in a larger size than it will be published i suppose? Unless i scan in bits which can be confusing
that's up to you
I have an A3 scanner ;)
incidently - there are two approaches to the scanning issue:
1) to draw your comic page 'panel by panel' [or sets of] rather then the page all in one go - this way you can reduce the area to be scanned at any one time, by drawing your panels on seperate board
you then put the page elements together on the computer - and this in fact is reallly easy in xtreme, and was the very first thing that attracted me to the program..
2] use light drawing paper [such as the 96gsm mentioned earlier] and 'slip scan'
if you have an A4 scanner you can slip scan A3 by putting it it in 'sideways' and scanning one half and then sliding it through and scanning the other half - in practice of course you need to stop half way and make an overlap scan as well
you then put this together on the computer
this is a tricky way of working - and you need to get the alignment just right - on some scanners it will be a lot of trouble - but if you really must have a panel that is bigger then your scanner bed, there is not much option
ideally you should have a scanner where the bed glass is flush with the housing, and then you are not just limited to light paper, but this sort of scanner is not so common
the professional way though is to get a bigger scanner, or get it scanned by someone [print-shop?] who has one....
Bob Hahn has a couple of video tutorials on how to color comics in Xara on YouTube here and here.
Bobīs method doesnt seem to work so well with human figures. I colored this one by using freehand in pt 8 or 4 in the colors i wanted to use, but i think i should have painted the wall first and only then colred the guy and finally inked him.I tried select and move the guy so i can paint the wall but it doesnt seem to work unless it is a closed object
I'm not sure you are doing it right
Have a look at this thread and the example in my post #4 - its another way to do it:
http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthread.php?t=43814
correct
like the member in the other thread, you may find it easier in another program....
Where is "elements" to find magic wand?
thanks
in your xar file you have done it wrong - you should not really try to put the coloring above the scanned line
you give your scanned line a stained glass transparency to remove the white
then you make shapes on a new layer below this in order to fill with color
- do you look at the attached xar file at post #4 of the other thread?
'elements' is photoshop elements - the lite and less expensive version of photoshop
[you can download a trial here: https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/i...shop_elements]
but you will still need to close shapes to use the fill tool... the 'magic wand' is only a selection tool with a fancy name :D
yes ill try that again
how do i put the new layer below that one?