The return of the colour! I think I’ll keep it… it makes the comic ‘pop’ more. Anyway, hoping to have two more comics next week, but I suddenly have to go to Toronto for 4 days! See ya later, gators – I mean – Primate Posse™! 😉
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Stay tuned for a comic on Wednesday or Friday! I’ll fix the banner above soon, since it doesn’t look like I’ll be returning to 3 times a week any time soon. 🙁
Well Primate Posse™, I’ll be incommunicado for the rest of the week. Not much tweeting, or RTing as I’ll be on holidays, or vacation as you folks say down in the US of A! Well, most people call it that here in Canada too, but I’m stickin’ with holidays! I’ll have a comic for y’all on Monday. Soon colour will return…
I don’t have a Stan song to share with this strip, unless you’d like to go back and listen to To Be a Woman, which I mentioned in another post. But I thought I’d share with you a different song piece that is part of my contemporary art career that I keep alluding to. This piece is called the Contemporary Art Theme Song, and it is the first of my new series of works called “the Petition Works.” Please watch the video and then sign the petition to make my song (not a Stan song, by the way) the actual official theme song of contemporary art! I’m looking for 1 MILLION signatures so that I can take the song to – er – contemporary art to make it official! I’m well on my way as I already have SEVEN!!! 🙂 Anyway, the song and video are right on the frong page of my personal website simonite.com. (that’s right, my name is unusual enough that I own the .com!!!)
On another note, look for a second GITM comic on Wednesday and probably the same schedule for next week too. Gradually getting back into it after a fun summer of making other kinds of art! 🙂
Howdy there Primate Posse™! Here is the first Friday comic in weeks! I’m planning to increase my comic output over the next while. We’ll see how it goes…
In the meantime, I thought I’d talk about something I’ve been meaning to write about for a while – Inking! I mentioned in an earlier post that I had a prof in art school who told me that my inking was terrible, and he was right. He also encouraged me to ink with a brush and after dabbling with brush pens, Pitt artist’s pens and crow quill pens, I think I can say that I’ve finally settled on a Windsor and Newton Series 7 #2 brush with a nice bottle of India Ink! (although I have been using Pitt’s [not the brush ones] to do some of the smaller details like eyes – mind you, I inked an entire strip with only the brush today! It will appear soon) I actually find the brush easier to control than Pigma brush pens and the Pitt brush pens. And I think I can honestly say that my inking is finally not terrible.
Having said that it’s not as slick and professional as many many of my webcomic (and other comic) colleagues. But, does anyone else think that really really good inking looks almost mechanical? Don’t get me wrong, I really appreciate and am very impressed with that skill, but there’s something about my own line that I like quite a lot. It is clearly made by hand, and I like that. It seems to me that Watterson’s line was clearly hand drawn as well (not that I’m comparing ANYTHING about my strip to the great Watterson (pees be upon him). Anyway, any thoughts from the Posse™?
No Stan song to share today, but please visit standickie.com for more!