Well, as far as the line work goes, the printing is excellent as far as I can tell. But some of these panels, as I feared, are REALLY way too damned small. I probably could have extended this to graphic novel page count just by making what I had larger. Working digitally, where I can zoom in on 1 pixel, distorted my sense of what I was doing. Oh, well, we knew that. I'm not changing it now.
The other thing is, there's something about looking at a printed page where you can see mistakes even if YOU'VE LOOKED AT IT A THOUSAND TIMES ONSCREEN.
Fixing those. And then we'll try again.
Still a thrill to have a printed copy like it was a real comic book, though.
Well, as far as the line work goes, the printing is excellent as far as I can tell. But some of these panels, as I feared, are REALLY way too damned small. I probably could have extended this to graphic novel page count just by making what I had larger. Working digitally, where I can zoom in on 1 pixel, distorted my sense of what I was doing. Oh, well, we knew that. I'm not changing it now.
The other thing is, there's something about looking at a printed page where you can see mistakes even if YOU'VE LOOKED AT IT A THOUSAND TIMES ONSCREEN.
Fixing those. And then we'll try again.
Still a thrill to have a printed copy like it was a real comic book, though.
You've just listed the two biggest problems with digital -- the zoom feature distorting perception and getting too precious with the work because you can tinker and tweak forever with digital files.
Well, as far as the line work goes, the printing is excellent as far as I can tell. But some of these panels, as I feared, are REALLY way too damned small. I probably could have extended this to graphic novel page count just by making what I had larger. Working digitally, where I can zoom in on 1 pixel, distorted my sense of what I was doing. Oh, well, we knew that. I'm not changing it now.
The other thing is, there's something about looking at a printed page where you can see mistakes even if YOU'VE LOOKED AT IT A THOUSAND TIMES ONSCREEN.
Fixing those. And then we'll try again.
Still a thrill to have a printed copy like it was a real comic book, though.
You've just listed the two biggest problems with digital -- the zoom feature distorting perception and getting too precious with the work because you can tinker and tweak forever with digital files.
Well, the only reason I'm tweaking now is looking at it as a printed copy. The copy on ComiXology will just have to stay that way, at least for now. You'd have to withdraw it and resubmit and it's not worth it so far. But what I'm looking at now is what would be printed so I'm kinda in a different mode. There was a major mistake on page 1 that wasn't like that in the digital copy because I decided to use the bleed and I screwed something up. That was a NEW mistake. It HAD to be fixed. But I figured as long as I was fixing that I'd fix whatever else I saw. Up to a point, mind you.
You can fix and fix forever, is the problem. It's why Game of Thrones will never be finished and why Robert Jordan died before Wheel of Time was completed. I think it looked great.
You can fix and fix forever, is the problem. It's why Game of Thrones will never be finished and why Robert Jordan died before Wheel of Time was completed. I think it looked great.
I actually fixed: changing one instance of a serif "I" to non-serif as is proper and on the sequence where Elessa begins to change to the hyena form she is missing her bracelets. No one ever noticed but when I saw the printed copy it was glaringly obvious especially as she has her arms over her head. And it's weird because on the cover in the same pose she has them.
And I changed "...graceful as a sword." to "...graceful as a nimcha".
That's it, honest. The latter is most egregious as concerns y'all's point because that did not have to be changed; it wasn't a mistake.
I did the bleeds wrong on the cover and page 1. That, as I said, wasn't done on the digital copy online.Those were mistakes I made just trying to get the printed copy ready and those had to be changed. Stuff on the cover was cut off. No choice there.
Now if I was REALLY obsessive, I would withdraw the file at Comixology and expand the panels that are too small and increase the page count. This would also no doubt involve changing the position of word balloons as well. May even involve redrawing.
But, no. Even the thought of doing that makes me ill.
I said something somewhere but it obviously wasn't here so...
When I was about 18 and not fighting off sabertooths, I would ponder which of the two things I liked doing I should pursue, art or writing. I settled on art because I had gotten a degree in it and thought it was easier to have product to move in art as opposed to shopping around manuscripts to a tight market. It seems most writers have ideas spilling from their heads all the time; I do not. So I confined writing to a hobby, mainly just futzing around with the fantasy novel-that-will-never-be-finished.
But, as I said somewhere, the comic, the Conan piece, the two LOXG pics, as well as the various t-shirt designs, have all left me a little burned out. Especially as these efforts generate hardly any interest at all in a way that made me want to do more. Story of my artistic life.
The internet and the computer have revolutionized my art, my output becoming much more productive (such as it is). But another thing it has done is opened up many new platforms for writers. You no longer have to be at the mercy of publishers.
So between the burn-out and having finally had one story published, it's going to be writing for the foreseeable future.
Maybe turning 60 had something to do with it as well.
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