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Member since:2007-10-17
Instead of 'working around' your 'sucky drawing', why not try to work with it, and make it a trademark of your comics? Creating your own style generally sets you away from the rest of the crowd. (Take xkcd with its stick figures, for instance.)
As for the people, you'll have to work them into the above.
Good luck with it all.
Member since:2005-06-29
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Member since:2007-04-13
If you just tried using Inkscape, most of your drawings are probably easier to create with Inkscape once you know what you are trying to create. I mean, all you are doing is basic outlined blocks. That's why people are frustrated, because they know if you spent 5 minutes attempting it, you could use i.e. Inkscape to knock up your cartoons in no time.
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Member since:2005-06-29
I have a tablet, and I tried using it, but it simply sucks (I have Adobe Illustrator). It just doesn't work like a real, proper pen, and all the freedom and control that comes with it. The style won't change, it's the way it is, and if you don't like it, you can always not read them.
This is the last comment on the style of the comics. Any other comment regarding the style on this or future comics will be deleted. You are free to discuss the content of the comic, or the message it tries to convey.
Edited 2008-02-17 21:54 UTC
Member since:2006-02-06
I'm not familiar with laws on the subject so I decided to be dumb and ask: Is it really possible that xkcd or anyone else move an action because of the use of stick figures on comic sites ?
Did they patent that thing in the Upper Paleolithic or something ? I mean... that's just nonsense. If the guy picks a style that every five years old kid develops alone, he can't really complain that other people are using it, now can they ?
Not that I'm saying that you should use it, I like the comics the way they are, although I don't understand quite a few.
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Well, the new font was a necessity (not just for readability, but also it was a pain to write in a sensible way, that made everything fit and such). The drawings are crappy because, well, I simply can't do better, and there's little I can do to improve this. I see it as a limitation I need to work around.
Another limitation is not having the ability to draw humans. I can't do stick figures since that would be taken quite clearly from xkcd and C&H.
I'm pondering how to solve this issue. My bestest best friend has a really simple and elegant style in drawing humans (a style I can easily recreate) but I'm fairly sure she based it on her favourite comic, so I'm not sure I can use it.
Who knows.