April 3rd, 2007
Wacom vs Ink
Sweet Jaysus I drank a 2ltr bottle of coke for some reason today and I’m all jittery. The amount of caffiene in that shit. And you see kids drinking it, babies! Not good.
Here’s a promo pic I done for my book. It was a giveaway for The Den, it got a mention on it a few weeks ago. It’s the first physical pen on paper illo I’ve done in ages. Of course it had to be a real drawing if it was a giveaway, it’d look great if the winner just got it on a disk (with some flarn). So I done it in pencil, scanned it then inked and yesterday morning I inked it digitally as part of my daily warm up doodling. The inked version took around 45mins and I timed myself on the digital version, 12 minutes boyeeez. Ahhh, the Wacom is the fuckin biz. Shiznit 4 is all digital except for the cover which was scanned pencils and then inkified with Painter.
Was saying to Bonzo Bonham last week about going digital and he, like so many others gets all cranky at the thoughts of it. And as I’ve said a million times before, I was reluctant to make the change until I heard Brian Bolland doesn’t use real ink an’mo. Yeah it is cheating a bit but when it saves 3 to 4 hours out of your working day….
April 3rd, 2007 at 7:24 pm
Ziggy Chunswick? I like that name. Forgive my ignorance Bob but how do you draw digitally? The wacom is a pen mouse right but how do you draw over the pencil drawings? Does the wacom base thing scan it or do you put paper into it? Don’t reply ‘you’re a gobshite’
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:56 pm
‘The first book from an original and exciting new author’ Woman’s Way
now that my friend is fuckin insane!!!
April 4th, 2007 at 8:21 am
Yeah I know man it’s weird. Did you see what the Farmer’s Journal said about me?Nothing, because they don’t review books.
Stewbie, part of me wants to call you a gobshite but to be honest I was a bit fuzzy about how it would work before trying it. The Wacom is the pen mouse and the base/tablet. You scan the pencil art in with a scanner and then in Painter or Photoshop you pick a brush and draw over it on another layer. The pen has buttons on the side of it and then the nib is pressure sensitive. And if you press all the buttons and Ctl+Ice Cream, Ice cream comes flying out of your speakers.
April 4th, 2007 at 8:22 am
oh yeah forgot, anybody know how to record your screen? Painter records all your actions and then plays them back high speed. It’s deadly
April 4th, 2007 at 8:26 am
This is like when Dylan went electric…
April 4th, 2007 at 6:51 pm
Just saw your pic on the o’briens site. Bit of a Morrisey thing going on there B!
You look friendlier than I imagined tho
Got the new Shiznit on Saturday but havent read all of it yet. You didn’t mention the one big downside of digital art though, there’s no finished art for you to either sell or display….
April 4th, 2007 at 11:46 pm
Death to the machines!!!! >:
April 5th, 2007 at 8:39 am
Long live the machines you bum.
Nice one Claire, my thoughts on Morrisey are well known. It’s not gay to fancy him and I’ve always said if I had to ride a bloke, HAD to, gun to the head etc it’d be….Dot Cotton. How did you not read all of it? It’s not the Great Gatsby, you’d finish it in 10 minutes.
Totally agree about the downside being that you don’t have finished art. But you’re saving the environment or something.
April 5th, 2007 at 8:46 am
Ah, the old digital vs manual drawing thing. Didn’t realise there was that much of a difference in speed for you Bob, I presume it’s even more extreme if you include the time you’d spend on the original pencil sketch. And yet still I remain an obstinate bugger about it. (Well, I’m moving in the general direction of drawing digitally, just need to set aside time to practice and get the hang of drawing with the mousepen….)
Speaking of screencapture videos, there’s software called Captivate that we use in work to make training videos. That might do the trick for you…
April 5th, 2007 at 9:31 am
Hey bro, the thing that you don’t realise about the wacom is that it’ll free up your style and make you ink stronger. A day of fiddling around and you’ll be ready to rock. Especially for the webcomics you do, you can add colours and backgrounds in a sec. Download the 60 day Painter trial. Thanks for the Captivate link, will get it now.
April 5th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
Ahhhh….I see. There are a few wacom vids on youtube. I’d buy one but 1) I don’t draw 2) the fucking price of them! What’s the story Bob are you making an appearance at the thing in The Royal Dublin in May? I might get a table at it, it’d be good to meet you and steal your thoughts.