EPTSome of you may notice that this blog is a day earlier than promised. The reason is after finishing up I asked myself, "why wait?" and I didn't have a good answer.
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I figured out a way to color these damned scans. It has to do with maximizing contrast and then selecting for color. It works, but it takes absolutely all softness out of my lines. I'm using a Sharpie brand marker to ink these things, so there isn't much character to the lines anyway and removing the rest of it is kinda jarring. Fortunately, I can Gaussian blur after I'm done coloring to get rid of the hard edges. I don't think it's completely awful. It'll do for now.
At the bottom of the blog I'll be linking to past installments so people that miss something can go back and read it.
What else... Oh OH! I've come to the conclusion a fanzine isn't much of a fanzine until there's more than one person contributing. Towards that end: if you've got anything you would like to submit-- comics, poems, short stories, rants, sci-fi tv/movie reviews, pin ups, etc-- feel free to shoot a PM my way and I'll be sure to include them in the coming weeks' Fanaticism blogs. Mr. Pessimist says that no one'll submit any content when they can post their stuff in their personal blog, but Mr. Positive says that stuff like this is always more fun when you network & collaborate with other people, so it's worth trying anyway.
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Fanaticism #2
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Pretty boring that he's just standing there, yea? lol. If you look at the Marauder in the map editor, they're basically little cubes. My Marauder is a rectangle. A rectangle full of fail! S'okay, that's why the word "style" was created. So people could pretend their shortcomings were strengths.
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Sketchbook
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<font size=1>The little guy in the middle is Abo the Living Bomb, a character I created in highschool. He goes on rants and explodes by the end of the strip. Silly gimmick, but whatevs, he's cute! lol.</font>
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Feedback
On August 21 2010 06:03 Badjas wrote:
The NSFW tag is the easiest guarantee to get many eyeballs for your blog. (;
The NSFW tag is the easiest guarantee to get many eyeballs for your blog. (;
I'm not sure I agree, Badjas. I have seven blogs from late 2007 and early 2008 (before TL's population exploded) that lack NSFW tags and have more views than Fanaticism #1 and over a dozen with comparable views. In my opinion, the key to views is staying on the frontpage, which means you've got to generate discussion. Tags don't do that. Unless I start posting flamebait I doubt Fanaticism will generate much discussion compared to more controversial blogs, but it's a bit early to jump to any conclusions.
On August 21 2010 06:06 Hawk wrote:
I wish I could draw.
I wish I could draw.
Everyone can draw, Hawk. Half the successful webcomics are stick-figures, and 90% of the webcomics I enjoy are stick-figures. You don't have to be Michelangelo to get a point across.
If you're wishing you could draw pleasant female body parts.... as far as I know, people don't jerk it to their own drawings. It'd be like diddling yourself because your daughter's hot, which is ew.
On August 21 2010 06:09 PaD wrote:
I only clicked on it because of NSFW
I only clicked on it because of NSFW
On August 21 2010 06:17 TonyL2 wrote:
Liking the art style, not entirely sure what that first comic is about though
Liking the art style, not entirely sure what that first comic is about though
On August 21 2010 07:55 Mikilatov wrote:
then I realized what it really was, but still didn't quite understand it fully.
then I realized what it really was, but still didn't quite understand it fully.
Next week's strip hints at why the guy jumped, but I should probably put together a strip of exposition to drive the point home. Thanks for the feedback, TonyL2 & Mikilatov!
On August 21 2010 09:33 ironchef wrote:
I love seeing people's sketches, can browse stuff all day hehe. Good stuff, looking forward to seeing more
I love seeing people's sketches, can browse stuff all day hehe. Good stuff, looking forward to seeing more
Thanks, ironchef! But it's not likely to be a regular feature. Most of my sketches are doodles (I doodle profiles a lot, if you couldn't tell), page layouts, or fiddling with typefaces (I'm trying to have an original font for each strip), and I'm not sure that sorta stuff is interesting to share.
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