Conversations with Cherry

[tealin]

I learned Cherry's full name last week.*





*A little bird told me – and the IFC has it in for me as their dumb promo kept stopping up the video feed. Cool stuff though, if you can get it to load. The other videos are cool too, and mysteriously had no problems at all. SCIENCE!

Comments

[uberklutz.livejournal.com]

wow, that article was really cool. The sexy smelly birds, haha, the woman was quite enthusiastic. I love birds...

[iseepurplehair.livejournal.com]

I love that he said hardcore.

If you don't mind me asking, how long wold you say each panel took to sketch?

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

It ended up being about four hours for the whole thing, mostly because I was fighting with poses – I'd thumbnailed the whole thing a couple days before and then left my thumbnails at work so I couldn't look back at them. (dur) Some panels were a lot faster than others, too; the second one was really quick but the 'hardcore' one I kept redoing his near shoulder and arm. Stuff like that. You can't see the pain because I dropped out the blue level in Photoshop. :D

[salamandersoup.livejournal.com]

ahaww xD you should draw more comics of yourself ...(and your adventures in science?) :D

[infiniteviking]

Hee! What brushes did you use, by the way? Your lines have this marvelous pencily feel to them.

That's a very fascinating article, too.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I used this crazy brush that's, like, a mineral wrapped in wood? It gets softer as you use it and then you stick it in this thing that goes RAWRAWRAWRAWRAWR and it gets sharp again!

;)

I don't draw in Photoshop. The line-tracking algorithms or whatever drive me nuts. I just use it to spruce up the pencil and colour things. I did find a brush, though, past the bristle brushes and the sort of starburst/nebula-looking things which with enough angle jitter and spacing manipulation mimics pencil well enough to do nearly seamless patch-up work. This is PhoSho7, though, I don't know where it would be in later versions...

[infiniteviking]

..Win! XDDD I thought it might be pencil and then you said you were working on the underlining in Photoshop and I was all "how did she do that?" :D

Heh, I only have Photoshop 5-L, so no fancy brushes for me, it's just cloning lines of similar weight for touch-up work... someday, though. Someday.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Out-of-date copies of PhoSho are relatively cheap on eBay. Word to the wise. Honestly the only new feature in CS+ that I ever use is the warp tool, and then so infrequently that I hardly miss it in 7.

[aspectabund.livejournal.com]

You speak truth! There was an advert up in my school today, offering to students a bundled Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator and Acrobat CS3 editions for $199. And that's only the only recently outmoded version...

Speaking of new features... CS4 has a non-permenant rotate tool and it fixes the random pixelly look of the canvas when it's like 66.66% zoom. And you know when you're zoomed out really far to just sort of thumbnail a bit, and the lines look fine, but then you zoom in and discover that your lines are all woggly and squarish? They fixed that too. These are three things I think they should have had a long time ago... yet they just stuck them in now. CURSE THEM.

Oh, and you can totally import and paint 3D models in CS4. I wannnt it, but I'm just playing around with the trial. :(

[infiniteviking]

Oooh, good call. Thanks!

[hobbitnat.livejournal.com]

drawing frightened fat men..... AWESOME!

p.s. you talked of some Sherlock radio plays you liked, can you give me some names? I'm going to be spending the weekend in the hospital and would like to see if i can nab them on CD or something at the library

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Ummm... I don't know if the library would have them ... you can probably find them for download on some torrent site or other, though. They're the Bert Coules adaptations from the late 80s-90s, starring Clive Merrison and Michael Williams. There seems to be some sort of almost-official site here (http://www.bertcoules.co.uk/intro.htm) but it looks about ten years old...

[hobbitnat.livejournal.com]

ok awesome, names are good too, it helps me narrow down my search. yeah i was thinking that being off of radios they probably wouldn't likely out in a library or store after i wrote the comment, ah well.

by the way, i thought you might be interested, while i was searching around, i found this site with super old-school Sherlock radio plays! Some of them are really good! http://www.storiesnow.com/index