Piece I did for magazine

[alec]

This is a silent piece of sequential art I did for a Flemish magazine. It's just a fragment, loosely based on the story of "Jack and the Beanstalk", meant for the summer edition of the magazine which will show the "collaborative" efforts of me and 10 other writers/illustrators, all of them dealing with "Jack and the Beanstalk" in one way or another. I'm showing it because it's the first thing I've done with the Wacom tablet and the Paint Shop Pro 8 software I got for Christmas. Nothing complicated, true, and I've made plenty of mistakes, I'm sure, but I rather like it for a first try. If you've got any pointers, I'd like to hear them, though.

 

[SuAside]

This is a silent piece of sequential art I did for a Flemish magazine. It's just a fragment, loosely based on the story of "Jack and the Beanstalk", meant for the summer edition of the magazine which will show the "collaborative" efforts of me and 10 other writers/illustrators, all of them dealing with "Jack and the Beanstalk" in one way or another. I'm showing it because it's the first thing I've done with the Wacom tablet and the Paint Shop Pro 8 software I got for Christmas. Nothing complicated, true, and I've made plenty of mistakes, I'm sure, but I rather like it for a first try. If you've got any pointers, I'd like to hear them, though.

cool, looks simple but totally neat. also made me smile, so can't be all bad.

which mag is it for alec?

 

[Wooz]

Wacom tablet and the Paint Shop Pro 8 software I got for Christmas.

Hah! Not only did you get a tablet, you also celebrate Christmas gift-giving!

Pointers, though. Obtain a copy of Photoshop and Corel Painter IX.

Looks good, anyhow.

 

[alec]

What mag is it for alec?

It's for DWB, Dietsche Warande & Belfort, a bi-monthly magazine entirely devoted to literature and art. Kind of like the little Flemish half-cousin of the New Yorker minus the international appeal. Good stuff. Top notch mag for Dutch writers in any case.

Hah! Not only did you get a tablet, you also celebrate Christmas gift-giving!

Well, I asked for the tablet because it'll save me lots of time mono-colouring my drawings. That's also why I asked for the dead-cheap Paint Shop Pro 8: affordable and it does what I need it to do.
Nothing wrong with Christmas: I buy something someone else really wants and they buy what I really want in return. It's like spending money on yourself without having to feel guilty about it. Christmas rocks in a materiaistic way. The religious aspect of it can go fuck itself, 'cause I don't give a shit.

Obtain a copy of Photoshop and Corel Painter IX.

I assume you say that because it's better software? Mind you: the piece I posted above is way complexer than the stuff I really want to do with this kind of software. All I need to have is some tool to separate my linework from a single colour layer. Well, for the time being. PSP 8 costed my mom less than 50 euros. I think only The Gimp is cheaper than that.
Is Photoshop the standard by the way?
Some time ago I saw something called Coreldraw Illustrator (or something). That stuff any good? It was reasonably priced.

 

[Wooz]

Excuses, excuses

Yes, Photoshop is the standard graphic editing program. It also has very good coding in reproducing what you scribble on the tablet onto the screen.

Adobe Illustrator is also a good program for, surprisingly, illustrating.

Corel Draw is a vector graphics program, so it's completely useless for what you're doing.

Corel Painter, on the other hand, is a program that tries to mimic 'traditional' mediums on a computer. I find it useful, because I'm used to working with oil on canvas, and to the way the paint acts on it. Obviously, it's not 100% accurate, but still helps.

 

[The Vault Dweller]

Is she contemplating suicide in the last panel? I mean those wings cant possibly fly...

No seriously your style is simple, but very fulfilling to what you choose to show. I would go into detail, but I dont really make or study art so I cant say much. Though if an everyday person like me can like your art I guess that means many others will too.

Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller

P.S.

By the way did your career start as an artist or as a student of law to get into the justice department?

 

[alec]

No seriously your style is simple, but very fulfilling to what you choose to show. I would go into detail, but I dont really make or study art so I cant say much. Though if an everyday person like me can like your art I guess that means many others will too.

W00t! Thank you so much for saying that. That's really very nice of you.

By the way did your career start as an artist or as a student of law to get into the justice department?

Neither. I got that job because I'm good at writing. I lost it because it bored the shit out of me and my bosses weren't prepared to compromise (no budget for communication - try communicating wth that!). Anyway, I'm cool with it now, on my second day as an officially unemployed member of society. Got lots of stuff to do and finish anyway.