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Books and finale: some stuff

Postby dcsimpson » Mon Jan 05, 2009 1:56 am

Someone asked a while back why I'd drawn the final storyline "in a completely different style."

I don't actually think I did, but there's also a reason it was a bit different: I did the last storyline digitally, after a decade of doing comics on paper with ink.

I had meant to finish the strip out on paper, not least of all because you can't sell originals when the original is just pixels, but I was just *so* into doing my art digitally by that time that I reasoned that doing it that way was about the only way I was actually going to finish it.

I didn't really mean to become a digital artist--there's a reason I held out for so long. But, a year ago, Orv got me a tablet for Christmas. At first I just used it for things like coloring. But, the more I did that, the better I got with it. And, when a friend gave me an extra copy she had of a program called Manga Studio, I was pretty hooked, and I started doing some of my inking digitally, too. Finally, I started doing everything, from sketches to color, with the tablet, and never putting ink or graphite or anything else to paper at all.

And the fact is I love it. I can redo or undo anything I want, I can copy and paste images and alter them for consistency...it's an enormous time-saver.

I suppose it did make the closing strips look a bit different. But, if the models seem to have drifted in the past year, it's also because my drawing style has evolved enormously in the last year. Partly it's all that working with a tablet. But also, it's partly because drawing in one style exclusively had become a bit stifling. A drawing style is something to grow within, and, at least in my case, eventually you've grown as much as you can within it, and you're like a plant that needs to be moved to a larger pot to keep growing.

That's what happened when I redesigned the characters in 2000; I was still into th strip as much as ever, but the style I'd developed several years earlier had become limiting, and so I spent a month redesigning the characters into a broader style that I could continue to grow within. (Fans at the time were not thrilled, but I think most people came around--though I still know plenty of people who prefer the original look of the characters.)

I reached that point again, finally, and that was part of my decision to end the daily strip, and to do future stories involving the characters in a format that might allow me to flex my art muscles a bit more. I hope people will enjoy those.

(My new project, "Raine Dog," will be debuting on Keenspot very shortly. Watch for it.)

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Postby Segovia » Mon Jan 05, 2009 2:03 am

Looking foward to reading raine dog. Hope it's just as good as O&M

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Postby Dr. Sticks » Mon Jan 05, 2009 2:09 am

ohhh, yeah I forgot about Raine Dog ^_^

I read where someone mentioned it lately, and I assumed they were just still calling you by that old Rain Luong nickname. cool beans, DCS.
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Postby cougartiger » Mon Jan 05, 2009 4:08 am

Guess that explains why the O&M characters in my pirate ship commission look a little strange. Still, I love it.

I'm supposing you did my Locke/Mudd gift art digitally as well? Looks like you really took your time with that one as it came out superb!

Now, I just need to find frames for everything and then I can turn one wall of my bedroom into a DCS gallery!

I was going to ask for the original of the second to last strip, the one with Locke's last appearance. Guess that would be silly, huh? Oh, well.

Raine Dog has my interest.
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Postby Burning Sheep Productions » Mon Jan 05, 2009 6:04 am

I'm curious, will this forum switch its focus (at least in Current Strips) onto the new Raine Dog comic once it begins?
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Postby Arloest » Mon Jan 05, 2009 6:08 am

I still have no clue what's going to happen to these boards. But a Raine Dog theme would certainly not be the worst thing.
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Postby Tom Flapwell » Mon Jan 05, 2009 2:36 pm

I'm curious, will this forum switch its focus (at least in Current Strips) onto the new Raine Dog comic once it begins?
I hope so.

DCS, I was just about to try to find out what you're doing these days. Last I heard, you weren't employed or in school, so I'm relieved to know it won't be long before your next comic. Otherwise, I'd worry that you were wasting whole months of your life.
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Postby dcsimpson » Mon Jan 05, 2009 2:50 pm

DCS, I was just about to try to find out what you're doing these days. Last I heard, you weren't employed or in school, so I'm relieved to know it won't be long before your next comic. Otherwise, I'd worry that you were wasting whole months of your life.
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Postby Tom Flapwell » Mon Jan 05, 2009 2:57 pm

Oh, that's right; you did mention that before. Didn't know you were writing more than one book before publication, but I guess that is practical.
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Postby Ibun » Mon Jan 05, 2009 4:14 pm

I still have no clue what's going to happen to these boards. But a Raine Dog theme would certainly not be the worst thing.
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Postby Dr. Sticks » Mon Jan 05, 2009 4:51 pm

DC definitely needs to go towards Raine Dog. We sure can't become a fansite for Tabris's webcomic, and we're already a fansite for DCS's other non-political comic.
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Well put doog. You never posted anything offensive whatsoever
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Postby Baconsticks » Mon Jan 05, 2009 5:13 pm

Well, we don't actually have to be fansite for anything really.
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Postby Dr. Sticks » Mon Jan 05, 2009 5:25 pm

we do for the purpose of always having a pool of potential new members.
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Postby Ibun » Mon Jan 05, 2009 7:12 pm

And we would want new members...why? I dunno about you but I've had my fill of Segovias and cougartigers.
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Postby Trance » Mon Jan 05, 2009 7:26 pm

I haven't.


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