Thoughts on Digital vs Traditional?
Added 2024-11-28 04:37:32 +0000 UTC
I don't have a new Chapter art for this month, but I do have something I would like for you to weigh in on if you have the time.
I started lining digitally with the second half of Chapter 2.5, and while I'm happy the chapter is finished, I felt the art styles clashed dramatically. Back then, my scanning was messier and my rendering was messier, and I couldn't recreate that messiness digitally in a way that blended well.
Continuing into future chapters however, my art style is a lot cleaner, so I did a test. The left is the last panel of the most recent chapter and the right is how that looks when lined digitally. I found a better digital marker that looks closer to how my Micron markers look. I do like how that quick-drawn style looks for this series, so I want to keep that look and feel throughout. How do you feel about the quality?
Doing things digitally saves me a ton of time. I don't have to erase lines, I don't have to clean and orient the pages for the scanner (and clean the scanner), I don't have to crop and clean edges and adjust the contrast, AND I can draw digitally live for anyone that wants to watch these pages be made in real time.
But I don't want to do that if it loses the charm of the original, so let me know your thoughts!
