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Yeah this has proven to be one of the busiest weekends I've had in ages, so no comic from me. I suck.
I'm really looking forward to what everyone else manages to make though, so far everything looks mighty nice.

Wah. I didn't get further than a sketch-out of my comic last time, so I'm going to try and do something finished for this one.

SO MUCH TO DO OF EVERYTHING
Anyway, I made a comic featuring a pigeon. Here it is!
I'd upload it to the art portal, but it's all in pencil and I'm afraid it's too sketchy to really belong there.

At 7/30/12 09:31 PM, Kinsei01 wrote: Also there is the Rapidograph Pens. I got to use my teacher's set in highschool, and they were ungodly wonderful tools. A little high maintenance though, and very expensive, but can be one of the best things you got if you take care of them.

Oh yeah, I had similar, from Rotring. We had to buy them for technical architectural drawing in highschool. Waste of money, back then :D I let them completely dry out, and I often scratched the paper with them, I remember.
Maybe I can find the box again and try to clean the things.

Alright, thanks for the answers.
Kashi, those copics, do they have points like this? I can't tell well. If so, I'd rather avoid pens like that. They draw very well in the beginning, but I often manage to flatten the tip in too short a time, and I don't even press that hard on my pens. I think brush pens are better suited, but I haven't found any good ones..

Okay, I've had it. I have yet to find the perfect pen for inking comics. I have worked with a Kuretake Fudegokoshi Super FIne brush pen, which was alright, but a little too fine and rigid, I found it hard to work in good and lively line width.
Right now I'm working on my comic (literally, I'm working on it right now and I got so annoyed I created this thread) with a Mitsubishi Uni-ball whatever fine pen which is a rollerball pen. I don't know what I was thinking, but at that moment it seemed like the best I could find at that place. Yeah, it's hard to control, hard to predict how much ink wil pop out and hard to find out which way to hold it so you can get either thin or thick lines. Most of the time I guess wrong.

So help me out here newgrounds! I'm looking for something that won't cost me an arm and a leg, is not too soft so I can still draw fairly small like I'm used to, not too rigid so I can adjust line width, and doesn't easily 'bleed' into paper. Waterproof is a plus.
Ordering online is fine with me, but I live in europe, so shipping fees that cost 3x the pen aren't really that interesting.

PS: I really don't like inking comics digitally. I lose a bit of feeling with my drawing and things just look too.. slick. For me. Just saying.

This one sucks but whatever I'm supposed to be working on my comic but I'm in major procastination mood (it's already half pas 9 here) so everything goes.
I guess the thing speaks for itself

At 7/18/12 08:17 PM, Hyptosis wrote:
Damn girl you push a pencil well. Totally jealous. The caricature is slick. Reminds me that I should do more myself, they're great exercise. Keep it up!

You geelouse? Getoutahere. But thanks though. Caricatures really are great exercise.

I was at a little one-day metal festival saturday and this metalcore dude was really going for it and then he stepped on his wire and unplugged his mic for a moment but that didn't stop him going GARBLARGH

At 7/17/12 01:36 PM, Ramatsu wrote:
Still great! was this a study or something? i like the detail you put into it, i really like that feather for some reason. great work mort!

Thanks! And not really a study, I used a combination of references for the helmet, but apart from that it's just a drawing. A dude needs illustrations for his boardgame and I help him out. They're a lot of work, I'm not used to this type of drawing. But one learns! A little.

Oh yeah, today is also a comicday, herpaderp, you know the drill.

Hey look I made a caricature

Ugh it's been so long since I uploaded something decent and it's been way longer since I've been somewhat active in the art forum and aarghh
It's not that I'm not drawing, it's just that what I'm drawing is almost either comics or assignments. Here's a part of one of those. I had a hard time adjusting to this kind of drawing method and I'm still learning and not completely happy with what I'm able to churn out, but slow and steady, eh.

At 6/28/12 09:25 AM, big-jonny-13 wrote:.

You know you've given someone a good telling off when they've lost [their] face.
*badum tsh

You really like pointing it out when some of my characters don't have faces, don't you :' )

Yaaaaaay I have a new comic up: The Metro (part one)
And it also be in the Art Portal

I know it's thursday and all, I should really organise myself better.

Ehh.. triple post, but: This week's comic is also in the art portal.

Oh yeah, and me, Flowers10, Lucky, Luwano, and ZaneZansorrow totally got interviewed over here. READ MY RAMBLIIINNGGSSS

Yay new comic
Good times indeed.

OH NOES WHY HAVE I SPENT SO LITTLE TIME ON NEWGROUNDS LATELY

To have missed this, dang.

At 6/5/12 02:31 PM, big-jonny-13 wrote:
Oh, I thought you were going to realize you didn't have a face.

:(

And look who drew her own face again
IRL my head is rounder and less elongated and the lower half is less pointy also it looks like I'm pouting when I was not and my nose is too small yada yada yada

Well look who's here. Been kinda busy. Still updated the webcomic, though.

At 5/22/12 10:32 PM, J-qb wrote: Lundsfryd!

Does he look like that? Huh.

Some more dudes, from the same bar.

Another dude who posed for me at that bar. He had a thing for pineapples.

A girl from the same café asked if I could draw her.

Sketchling of a dude at a café. He later came by my table and put his name under the drawing.

Another quicky from the same musicians, but the banjo player.

And because it seems like a while since I uploaded any other stuff: handstudies from dudes playing country music.

Aaaand again, 'nother comic. wuhey

New comic!
And the same 'warning' as on facebook: "this comic kind of touches on the subject of sexytimes, but it's pretty safe for work though. I mean, as safe as a comic about a girl waxing her crotch can be."
So uh yeah. Make your own decisions :D

At 5/8/12 11:52 AM, big-jonny-13 wrote:
I think you may not get mine. In the old Scooby Doo cartoon, the character Velma would more often than not somehow lose her glasses, causing her to stumble about saying "My glasses, I can't see without my glasses", although she was also the genius of the group.
So, basically, I'm saying, while you may have the warrior gene, take away the glasses, and you're reduced to a pile of rubble ;P

Oh, okay, yeah I guess that's pretty much right. It's just not fair, seeing as to how my chances to survive the zombie apocalypse or to be a 'hero' in general are severely damaged simply because my eyeballs felt like getting out of shape :( Maybe I better stock up on glasses, just in case.

At 5/8/12 09:56 AM, big-jonny-13 wrote:
So, basically, take off your glasses, and you become a throw away Velma gag from Scooby Doo.

.. What?
Either I don't get your point or you don't get mine.