Invisible Hoody Comic Strip
February 12th, 2008
I’m experimenting with watercolor and ink illustrations. Also trying out the Lightbox js gallery effect as a possible way of viewing comics online. I kind of prefer the traditional linear panels, but let me know what you think!
Click Thumbnail to View Invisible Hoody
Also, if anyone has any tips for scanning in watercolors, and getting the colors and textures right, I’m all ears! I really like this way of working, but the colors (even after adjusting in Photoshop) got really blown out on my scans and were not nearly as detailed or sensitive as I’d like.
February 12th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
These are great Sally! I’m afraid I don’t have any tips on scanning the watercolors - the one time I did something like that I just took a picture of it: http://jingman.com/blog/paint_doodle_1/
February 13th, 2008 at 3:54 am
oh shit! thats so cute!
Here’s a really nice step-by-step watercolor
Unfortunately it doesn’t talk about scanning. :(
February 13th, 2008 at 11:04 am
Thanks guys!
@jake - NICE! Maybe just taking good photos is the way to go, instead of scanning.
February 13th, 2008 at 11:17 am
yo awesome illustrations! Clean and fresh I love the combo of pen and watercolor.
can’t wait to see more! you should make little books of these short narrations they would be cool
things to carry around or just look at
February 13th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
Speaking of invisible, we need to have a talk about the findability of the Lightbox’s navigation. Grr. Also a pet peeve: Having to hunt around for a Close button in a lightbox instead of being able to click anywhere in the gray matting to kill the image.
The cartoon, however, is great. :-) I never knew what that pouch was really for… until now.
February 14th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
Is this subliminal or what?! I used to carry Zasu the Siamese around in my sweatshirt that way. She loved it and would stay that way for an hour or more. Freddie is cruising to 20 lb. so that’s out. I’ll have to feed some fat cat pic’s to you because we would love to have a cat star in the comics. The technique looks good; watercolor is that way… elusive and edgy. Good job. :-)
February 14th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
Sally!! this is really great!!
February 19th, 2008 at 10:18 am
Wow, that was unexpected! Love it, Sally.
March 10th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
I really enjoyed that.
March 25th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
hey, it’s been a while since i’ve checked your gig here, but then i put my bike up for the winter because my knees just can’t take the cold weather anymore (see posts about being hit by cars lol) so i wasn’t in my cycling state of mind.
anyway, i found this: http://threemeninatub.blogspot.com/2007/10/scanning-watercolor.html
http://sketchcrawl.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2245
http://www.alistairbutt.co.uk/reproTwo.html
^–this one says something about an “unsharp mask” that i hadn’t thought of.
http://www.treelightstudios.com/tutorial_scanning.htm
^– this one is a bit lame, but offers some good flattening techniques
…hope any of this helps, tho i doubt i can google any better than you can.
-g
April 23rd, 2008 at 11:57 am
Awesome illustrations, Sally. I missed your doodles.