Well, to make a long story short, Ryan Allen
and Matt McHenry, along
with Ryan's alien
girlfriend and a little
robot, finally escape
from the town where Ryan's
"bad luck
bubble" made their
entire high school
lives very....odd. Now
they're in university,
and tend to make their
own bad luck. Yup.
Who is this "Josh Hammerstedt"
guy, anyway?
Josh Hammerstedt is currently hungry, and
wishes to have a snack.
Josh Hammerstedt, now that he has eaten,
is in his second year of university. He is
amazed that he has held his 3.0 grade point
average, considering how much of his time
is spent drawing comics and playing the guitar.
Why does he spend so much time on these things?
So his creative side will let him sleep at
night.
Josh is your standard blond eyed, blue haired
bespectacled boy, apart from being a cartoonist.
He comes from the postage-stamp sized little
town of McBride, British Columbia, but is
currently majoring in English at UNBC in
Prince George, a whole TWO HOURS AWAY! He
has an odd tendency of making friends that
are much taller than he is, to the effect
that he often feels shorter than he really
is.
ASk Josh to tell you about his summer sometime.
I dare you.
How is this rag drawn?
Okay, here we go with my current (and so
far grooviest) comicking method:
1) Print frame templates
using Corel Print
House, and make necessary
shape changes with
white out, a ruler, and
fine-ish tipped pens.
2) Write dialogue above
each frame to avoid
writing into corners.
3) Next I pencil in all the action and dialogue,
not necessarily in that order. This is the
step where I do the most experimenting, since
it's easy to fix sh*t. This part probably
takes the longest. Mistakes are handled via
the highly effective technique of erasing
with a white eraser. Really! It works!
4) Inking. I'm now inking with a 0.5 Pigma
Micron, as the 0.3 I was using didn't always
reproduce properly in the UNBC student paper.
I use a Sharpie for filling in big black
spaces. For mistakes, I've been using the
sh*ttiest white-out pen ever devised, since
my veritable god-like white out combination
of pen and tape was stolen, and was replaced
mere moments before I wrote this. We'll see
how it goes now.
5) At this point I usually check to make
sure I haven't missed anything the prof has
said, because I'm most likely in class as
I'm doing all this.
6) Now I simply scan my
comic, usually in
Black and White (not greyscale),
because
my scanner is actually
nice and clear when
used that way. I then tweak,
sometimes colour,
and resize the comic for
presentation on
the internet.
7) If you're still reading, you could be
doing better things with your time.
