It’s My Party and I’ll Cro-Mag if I Want To
Some of you may have noticed that today’s strip looks a little different. I’ve decided to give my Cintiq (which is a kind of digital drawing tablet for the uninitiated) another whirl for this week. The pens I use to draw Bug Martini have been giving me a lot of trouble lately and I’ve been getting sick of scanning strips, only to realize that I need to pull it back out and re-ink certain areas. Also, it takes longer to draw these suckers on paper, and right now time is more important to me than a possible sale of original art.
I know the lettering in today’s strip looks a little thick. I thought it would be more legible, but I think I’ll try a smaller brush size for tomorrow’s strip. I gotta say, I’m really enjoying working on a tablet. I’ve drawn on this thing before and it never felt right. For some reason, everything clicked tonight and it felt totally natural.
Lemme know what you guys think.
Who you? Neil DeGrasse Tyson?</i?
Love it!
Neil DeGrasse Tyson: so awesome people knew of his awesomeness before science even existed.
Amazing as usual.
I agree! I love the Neil Degrasse Tyson reference!
Thanks!
First, glad you are drawing on something that makes it easier and more fun to get out a strip.
Second, Neil DeGrasse Tyson? Ha!
I think it looks great! Seriously, do whatever you need to do to make your life easier and keep bug coming. Its a highlight in my day :D.
Font looks fine to me.
If you ask for opinion… Buy new better pens. You line looks way better when it’s drawn and scanned to that drawn on tablet, like today’s strip.
It’s still fanny, though. That doesn’t change 😉
“Does this Cintiq make me look fat?” 😉 (Sorry to riff on you!)
Personally i preferred the old writing, this entire strip looks like its shouting at me.
Although considering this strip is about cavemen, that is actually kind of fitting.
I personally prefer the paper-and-scan-it look, but I also prefer my favorite artists not to go mad trying to live their lives while drawing 18 hours a day.
I have to agree. The strip (especially the wording) looks a tiny bit too regimented for my taste – but you are the one that has to draw it, not us.
I’m gonna play with different brush sizes throughout the week and see if I can get this strip to look exactly how it did when I drew it on paper.
I’m too much of a caveman to notice the difference, except for the lettering…
I honestly didn’t notice until you pointed it out. Looks good to me!
I think the strip looks fantastic. As you said, the text is a bit thick, but other than that it’s great. The most important part is that you’re comfortable with using it to draw and that you enjoy it, so if that is the case then everyone’s happy.
My old eyes actually prefer the thicker lettering – it’s easier to read.
And I think that if we didn’t have previous strips to compare it to, we’d never even notice the thickness of the lettering!
Ditto; first time I haven’t either squinted or embiggened!
First, I’m green with envy – I’d love to have a Cintiq to play with!
Second, any time you make a change, you’re going to have folks complaining about it – it’s the Internet, after all! In fact, I believe that if you didn’t change anything, just announced that you did, you’d still get about the same number of people saying it was MUCH better before, change back immediately.
In the words of the prophet Rick, “You can’t please everyone, so you’ve got to please yourself.”
But Neil Degrasse Tyson wouldn’t be born for thousands of years!
No one noticed that scissors haven’t been invented yet, but eyeglasses, gift wrap, and silly party hats have? I know… nitpicking… but it’s those little details that make me LOVE this strip SO MUCH! 🙂
Cavemen priorities are out of whack. But at least Neil Degrasse Tyson invented time machine!
I want a birthday rock for my birthday!!
I love the fact that your first strip back on the Cintiq is about cavebugs. The sheer disparity is simply delicious. And it looks pretty good too. Though I do agree that the text might look better with a smaller brush.
Shouldn’t “Cavemen” in the first panel, second line, be “caveman”? I’m not sure why, but it really doesn’t look right.
Apart from the lettering, I think the strip looks great. The Bugs seem a bit chubby, but hey, they’re Cavebugs! All that fur makes them look poofy 😀
Looks good. The shoulders are pointier though, makes the heads feel slightly disconnected. But that might just be me. I’ll get over it.
In any case, use whatever tools at your disposal to continue Bug on his weird adventures, especially if it frees him to achieve greater heights of absurdity.
Sure, the text should be thinner. But other than that, I don’t actually notice any difference at all. I guess maybe other people are more observant than I am? But for me, other than the writing, I can’t tell one from the other.
Adam, you’re probably your own worst critic (although it has been pointed out above that this IS the internet, so trollers gon’ troll).
I wouldn’t even have noticed the lettering had you not mentioned it. I love this strip so much, it is, as has been said many times by many readers, the highlight of my comic strip reading day!
Keep ’em coming, and … p.s. (referencing my comment earlier today on Fridays strip still being up) I’m glad you’re not dead. That would suck.
I used to say that an artist is his or her own worst critic, but then the internet was invented.
Wait…you did all these strips by hand? I honestly thought the lettering was digital. Good work!
Ha-ha! You made my day!
I knew something was off, but until you said it was the lettering, I really didn’t know. Make your life easier (and mine with more laughs) by sticking to your tablet 😀
Well, as a guy who draw my stuff all in paper and scanning them later on I say it’s alright if you use Cintiq, I just feel like I lose another ally in pen/brush and paper team :p
Btw I think you need to hone your Cintiq skill more. The drawing is good but the cavemen clothings need revision. They look like giant doritos worn by skinny bugs.
Ah, late to the party, I is. I wouldn’t have known the Cintiq secret if I hadn’t noticed 35 comments waiting to be enjoyed. And one of those comments event ines e thicker typeface. I STILL didn’t notice except by flipping backhand forth bestixt Friday’s and today’s strips.
Me no criticize, dude. You expect me to say, “if I don’t see 200 hours a week of hand-drawn, hand-lettered art out of you, I want a refund for my free strips!”? No way, Adam. Save time as you need, and if there’s a marginal difference, then we’ll either get used to it or learn to stop griping. It’s still your warped sense of humour, after all. Thanks for your dedicate to the fine art of comic art!!!!!
Thanks!
Woo Hoo! I get the last comment of the day! 🙂
Nope! 😉
Lol!! This whole strip is too funneh!
I agree with the other commenters–your hand-drawn artwork is so perfect that I thought it was digital; I wouldn’t have noticed that the text is heavier except that you’d mentioned it; and do whatever you need to do to stay sane.