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Had some time to devote to "What, Me Furry?" installment 59, after what...forever? I'm now 90% of the way through the third and last page of this installment, so I figured I'd preview the most time-consuming panel of the whole installment.
Here, Sherryl and Tina take refuge under a store awning as the heavens open up. I had to draw in all those raindrops and airbrush their highlights one at a time. Disaster struck when I accidentally closed the pic without saving it and I had to do it all over again.
Normally, my workflow is like this:
1-Flat-color the lineart
2-Save a new copy named '(name)full-color' and start doing the shading/highlighting/effects on that.
3-Close the flat-color version
Sometimes it happens like this:
1-Flat color the lineart
2-Shade/highlight the 'flat' version
3-Realize I didn't make a full-color save yet, save the over-worked flats as a seperate 'full-color' .BMP (it then opens as a duplicate image)
4-Close the flat-color without saving, preserving the flats, continue shading etc, on the remaining image.
While I did step 3, step 2 also had the rain effects as three seperate layers, which have to be saved in a native-format file in order to preserve the effects layers. I didn't do that--I just made a new, duplicate .BMP to work from, forgetting that the layers don't carry over to the new image--and then did step 4
Ouch. I had to go lay down for awhile after that sunk in. After do-over, all that's left is to color/shade one more panel, add dialogue and post the installment.
...so I can start on Installment 60.
Here, Sherryl and Tina take refuge under a store awning as the heavens open up. I had to draw in all those raindrops and airbrush their highlights one at a time. Disaster struck when I accidentally closed the pic without saving it and I had to do it all over again.
Normally, my workflow is like this:
1-Flat-color the lineart
2-Save a new copy named '(name)full-color' and start doing the shading/highlighting/effects on that.
3-Close the flat-color version
Sometimes it happens like this:
1-Flat color the lineart
2-Shade/highlight the 'flat' version
3-Realize I didn't make a full-color save yet, save the over-worked flats as a seperate 'full-color' .BMP (it then opens as a duplicate image)
4-Close the flat-color without saving, preserving the flats, continue shading etc, on the remaining image.
While I did step 3, step 2 also had the rain effects as three seperate layers, which have to be saved in a native-format file in order to preserve the effects layers. I didn't do that--I just made a new, duplicate .BMP to work from, forgetting that the layers don't carry over to the new image--and then did step 4
Ouch. I had to go lay down for awhile after that sunk in. After do-over, all that's left is to color/shade one more panel, add dialogue and post the installment.
...so I can start on Installment 60.
Category Artwork (Digital) / Comics
Species Housecat
Size 750 x 460px
File Size 69.5 kB
For comics and pics that require effects layers, the native format is what I default to. For other pics that are just single-layer (other than attribute text) images, I usually save as a full-size (2552x3300) .BMP, then derive a smaller bitmap from that, and a web-size .JPG from the reduced-size bitmap (you'll notice almost all my submissions are 750 pixels wide).
The reduced-size bitmap is used for prints, as it's usually nicely antialiased at 25% size. All the versions are archived and backed up three different ways.
The reduced-size bitmap is used for prints, as it's usually nicely antialiased at 25% size. All the versions are archived and backed up three different ways.
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