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That was adorable. It was like Kiki's Delivery but bottled and squashed into a smaller timeframe. Thanks for the recommendation!

Dang, that's awesome! I've got to say, I love your use of color and texture.

The Wall Street sequel. Entertaining enough, but a bit meh compared to the original, despite having the same actors and director. I'd have thought that the events of the 2008 crash would have made for a riveting backdrop for the movie, but unfortunately it tends to wander all over quite a bit, and bogs down in family/relationship stuff. Douglas is still excellent as Gordon Gekko, however, and he makes the movie worth watching in his portrayal of an aging true SOB.

For those folks, basically, I have no sympathy. I've worked in a creative field professionally for 15 years now, and if you want to do it, you've got to be able to handle constructive criticism. There's a difference between that and pointless bashing, and one needs to grow up enough to perceive and understand that difference. If someone can't handle a thoughtful suggestion, they don't need to be doing comics (or anything else creative, really), because they're going to be in for a life of serious pain once they inevitably encounter the *genuine* trolls out there.

Agreed on that part. OTOH, I've never rated anything low because it just seems rude to me - I guess it comes off to me as a sort of passive-aggressive way to bash something without having to accept credit for your bashing. Normally if I don't like something, I try to explain why in the comments section. Then again, I generally always try to leave theoretically useful comments anyway, instead of just simple "Awesome!"-type remarks. If a bunch of people dislike something, that doesn't really tell the creator *why* they disliked it, so I feel like if I'm going to give something a bad review, I at least owe it to the creator to explain what it was that I didn't like.

I would probably actually skip "Dislike", to be honest, and just let comics be rated on the number of 'Likes' they collect, as on FB. Otherwise you'll just have the same problem - People setting up random accounts to dislike-bomb anyone they have a grief with.

A friend of mine had to shut down comments/feedback on his Tumblr account because he had some sort of troll type basically leech onto him and start continuously sending him insulting messages. I just don't get the mentality behind that sort of thing. I mean, if somebody annoys me that much, I just frickin' ignore them and stop visiting their pages or whatever. I can't understand why anyone would want to expend the energy to do that sort of harassment. I would much rather put that time into something fun.

Acceptable? No, it's not acceptable, I demand a full refund! :D

But seriously, that is awesome. I love it! Gonna be my new avatar here and on FB now. It helps that you made me at least 15 years younger. :D Love the texturing. Once again, I'm impressed by how good you are at making a digital drawing look like a pen & paper drawing. Thanks a bunch!

I can't seem to get them to *behave* like natural media, though. By contrast, I really enjoy painting with Procreate on my iPad, because its natural media brushes work like natural media - That is, watercolors can be blended and moved around and thinned, etc. In Photoshop everything just sort of goes down and sits there, dead. Do you have any specific explanatory links or tutorials or anything you can recommend?

That's just terrific. I wish I could do work in digital media that looked half that natural, but unfortunately my digital work all tends to look flat and plastic-ey to me. If I want a pic to look like that, I have to do it with natural media. Love the facial expression. I always feel like it's really important to capture something... *anything*... in facial expression rather than just blank stares.

Merci, madam! Maybe I was, back in the Paleolithic age, but these days I more resemble Tony Stark minus the good looks, the money, and the intelligence. Hey, I've got a goatee, though!

^ This. Don't fret it. Half the charm of webcomics in general is the sense of experimentation that comes with them. Devoting tons of worry into making it all totally consistent and perfect from the start usually just means that you'll never start. My strip has gone from B&W to grey tones to fully digital to fully analog and constantly flips between B&W and color, depending on my mood and how much spare time I have. Roll with it and enjoy yourself.

One would be mad to let an offer like this pass by...!

C'est moi:



And yes, that's my expression all the time when I'm on the internet.

(Disclaimer - Needless to say, I will not be offended if you choose to skip mine in favor of the inevitably better looking people who will inevitably come along)

Something that no one else has mentioned - Your character is standing stiffly in an unnatural pose. Hers are standing & sitting like normal, believable people. It contributes to the strength of the image that they look like they're "really there" as opposed to modeling a pose, if you follow.

Love your inking and colors, though. Don't change a thing in that regard. Her style is looser and more improv, which gives it a bit more dynamic punch, but that's an individual thing and not necessarily something you should try to copy.

We just watched that the other night! The wife and I both enjoyed it (but then again, I will basically watch Bill Nighy and Judy Dench in anything). I thought it was a good representation of expat life abroad, which isn't often presented very accurately. The trailer was a bit misleading, though, because it presented the movie as a lighthearted comedy when it was really a drama with some comedic moments.

I can't say much about it yet, but I *just* took the plunge and upgraded to Manga Studio 5. Expect a general bitching and griping review sometime soon.

Which Art Studio do you mean? I see a bunch of iPad apps all called Art Studio...

It's weird how no one ever talks about that program much. Do people think it's too much of a toy, or what? It's really surprisingly capable. I actually like the way it handles balloons better than Manga Studio.

"Drive" - We saw this Ryan Gosling 2012 action flick last night on Netflix streaming. It's REALLY weird seeing Lars playing the silent tough guy. Hard to review. It's a very good quality movie, artistically made, highly rated, but I didn't enjoy it all that much. Here is me being shallow - It is a serious indie, artsy take on an action flick, but I'd rather it was more *fun*.

Ryan the hero is a man with no name who works as a stunt driver, and spends his spare time working as a getaway driver for criminals. He gets involved with the lady next door, but a wrench gets thrown into things when her husband gets out of prison and Ryan ends up being roped into a Very Bad heist. Things compound worse and worse as Ryan tries to keep the girl safe and extricate himself from the mess. Along the way there are some cool car chases.

It's definitely worth watching and others will probably enjoy it more than I did - It has a 7.9 on IMDB, after all. Personally, I found it too bleak and depressing. YMMV.

One thing I DID really love about it was that it was the only "getaway car driver" movie I've ever seen that made rational sense. There's a great scene at the start where he's being led down this long line of classic musclecars while being told about his latest job... and as usual, I'm thinking he's going to end up in a "getaway car" that is something like a bright yellow '67 GTO, as fucking unsubtle as one can imagine. Instead, at the end of the row is a boring silver Chevrolet "something", a few years old, with a 300HP engine quietly tucked under the hood with no visual cues that make the car anything other than totally invisible. Then, he leaves the scene by pulling away casually and driving the speed limit, and action driving doesn't happen until it's absolutely unavoidable and then the first goal is to duck out of line of sight and resume being normal ordinary commuter car. It has the smartest getaway driver scenes I've ever seen in any movie.

Also, the car chases in this are good, and CG stunt-free, so that's a plus.

Manga Studio has some really powerful text & balloon tools for this sort of thing. Heck, there's even a simple program called Comic Life that allows for some surprisingly powerful panel shaping & sizing and text balloon customizing. I've used both extensively in my own comic, though these days I have letter everything and draw my own balloons and panel borders. One of these days I'm going to tackle making a font of my own hand lettering, though, because while I enjoy the freedom and especially the FX of hand lettering, it can really be a PITA.