Rocket Man
Well, folks. It was fun drawing on my tablet, but I going back to pen and paper.
I thought for sure I’d fall in love with drawing comics on my Wacom – and I did for a while. Being able to erase ANY inking mistake is a wonderful luxury. Problem is: drawing on a tablet, surprisingly, didn’t speed me up one bit.
It’s just too easy to futz with stuff. I don’t like the way I wrote that “K” – I can fix it. I don’t like how that antennae looks – I can fix it. Whoa, this whole PANEL is unfunny – I can fix it. See what I mean? When you draw on paper, you’re in this “measure twice, cut once” mentality. With a tablet, you don’t have to measure crap!
So back to pen and paper, and I have to say I immediately had a better (read: more fun) time drawing on paper. It’s like coming home to an old friend. ‘Course, this means I gotta scan my strips on my little scanner until my replacement scanner (thank you, Dad, for the birthday cash to buy one) arrives in the mail, so importing these suckers into Photoshop is a bit wonky. But I’m fine with wonky. At this point, I’m quite used to wonky.
Love the reading glasses!
Birthday cash? Belated (or super advance) happy birthday Adam!
Just out of curiosity, what software were you using along with your Wacom?
^^ LOVE the avatar 🙂 TRS-80 4EVER!
Photoshop CS5.
maybe I shouldn’t mention this, but you can fix what you draw on pen and paper AFTER your scan them 😀
Just kidding.
Back to comic, nah, you can use google map’s satellite image to refute them.(its not from a real satellite, but if you can’t see it much lower, you can’t see it in space.)
Just want you to know that Bug could be drawn with charcoal on a slab of volcanic rock and I’d still read it every night, Mondays through Fridays.
Whatever medium you’re most comfortable with, use it.
This. Also, next time you need money for a new scanner, just tell us, would you? You did. OK. Well, give us a link to your paypal account to go with it next time. I’d be happy to, for once, pour money in a bottomlesss pit that actually makes me laugh five times a week. Food and shelter are overrated anyway.
Ha-ha! Thanks for the offer, but I’d rather give you guys something to buy, rather than ask for a handout.
Yes, that’s been the story for quite some time now, but…click on “Purchase” and the only thing there is the original drawing. I got zero wall-space left for artwork. I ave mrs t shirts that I have space for too, but there have been several panels I’d have bought a shirt of…course at this point danged if I can remember which ones…
That might get a interesting effect actually… Although as volcanic rock tends to be very dark, chacoal could be hard to read! Chalk on volcanic rock would probably be a better medium. Still, I agree. Draw it however he wants to, we’ll keep on reading.
Thanks!
This may or may not be helpful, but using your own blood to draw definitely helps improve your attention to detail and prevents your from making mistakes.
But if he still makes too many mistakes, he has to go hunting for some hobos to use their blood. I don’t want to risk Adam going to jail, otherwise we’d lose such a great comic!
I make enough typos with a full body of blood. Lord knows how many I’d make after losing a pint or two.
I forgot which webcomic artist did this but she/he used to scan the comic and ink it in photoshop. If inking is the major point of delay for you, maybe that helps?
I would buy bug books (several). Would that help your profit margins from the strip? Would clicking on the ads repeatedly help?
Thanks! Don’t worry about the ads, and hopefully I’ll be making book one this summer.
I’m with you. Going old school is the way. I find that the time spent drawing the strip and inking it is less than when I bring it in and start “adjusting” things in Photoshop.
Dude…it is one of the travesty’s of this world that you aren’t rich from this comic. You are hilarious, and your sense of humor is whack-a-doodle like so many of the greats: Pogo, Calvin & Hobbes, Bloom County, Far Side (I think you and Gary Larson would get along great), etc.
I know, I know, it sounds like I”m sucking up, and that’s not my intent, but I really do hope you are able to make a very comfortable living from this someday.
And yes…the reading glasses were awesome!
Thanks. I’m really to blame for my lack of funds. I should have book three available to purchase by now. With any luck I’ll be ready to start a Kickstarter campaign for book one sometime in the Spring or Summer.
You can see China’s smog from space…but I guess you could also go there and breath it firsthand.
I agree with wwwjam. You should draw this strip any way you want with any implements you want. It’s the first thing I read in the morning and starts out my day with a snicker or even, like today, a laugh.
Do what you do so well and enjoy it.
Sorry, I got interrupted by a grandson who doesn’t get the jokes but likes the bugs, and didn’t finish my thought. I would read this strip even if it was drawn with purple crayon on construction paper. Keep up the great work.
Thanks!
Wait… satalites are in space, right? And Google Earth used secret government spy satalites… Well, I think it depends on how you define space, but – my house is visable on Google Earth… Therefore my House is visable from space! (If you zoom in a bit, but whatever!)
Sorry, google et al buy commercial satellite images. Primarily digital globe and geoeye. If you use NASA’s equivalent, it as NASA satellite images.
In addition to the other acolades, I like the fact that Bug is not willing to accept a pronouncement and wants to double check it. Too bad more of us don’t take the time to verify things.
Budgeting is tricker than I thought. I should set aside a dime a week and then send it to you when I accrue enough that I am almost hesitate to send it. Or when I can buy another of your strips.
Well you COULD try an Inkling – Which is pen, paper and importing your scribbles. – Just my 2 cents.
That’s basically what I do.
Nothing beats good ol’ pencil and paper. = ) (I can’t draw for beans digitally.)
It is a bit weird, isn’t it? You’re not so much drawing as you are pointing where you want a cursor to go. It’s almost as good, but it can’t beat a pen and pencil.
That’s…very true. Never thought of that. Maybe THAT’S why I don’t like digital drawing. It doesn’t feel like drawing because I can’t feel the lines and mess up terribly. You’ve cracked my art-brain…thanks! = P