Official Ao Comic Title Contest!!!

[einhander619]

Yeah, after thinking about it, Bunker Betties is definitely my entry for this contest! I usually don't care about this kind of thing, but you don't think that this name would offend girls, do you? Girls, let me know!

[The Frymarker]

Foo, actually you know what I do, I don't do the inking.

I just draw it with a hard lead like 2hb. Then when it is scanned in, I go into photoshop then I go to the brightness/contrast tab. I brighten it then I contrast it. I also make sure all of my lines connect so that way when I use the magic wand tool it won't grab everything.

If you do it that way it takes less time and it comes out the same as if inking, it usually gets rid of eraser marks too.

Best of luck, look forward to seeing it!

[FooTemps]

::GASP!:: you use magic wand!?!? What do you set the sensitivity at? I can't ever get it to work right... I've been tryin to use the lasso tool instead but that's such a pain... it looks good tho...

[ramsee1]

I do packaging for McFarlane Toys. I get to see a lot of cool stuff that the Image guys work on (Spawn, etc.). One of the color guys came out one time it was really cool how fast he cranks stuff out. If you need anything, logo wise or whatever let me know.

[The Frymarker]

Hey Foo,

I have the settings on default which is tolerance 32, anti-alias and contiguous.

I hate using the the lasso tool it take too much time. If you set the contrast just right you can use the wand to color in blocks of items fast!

Hey Ramsee, I love Mcfarlane Toys! I have a good collection of them, Spawn, Shack, Austin Powers...and so many more.
I love Spawn and Raven paintball products! I think they have a good thing going there.

I always wanted to work either for a comic book, Disney or making movie set props! I think that is why I like making the grips so much! I get to use my artistic and creative side. My dream was to meet and work for Jim Henson, but he passed away before I had the chance.
I guess it is just not in the cards for me. I want to be a famous artist, I could careless about the money, besides artists never see that anyway unless they're dead.

The closest I ever got to my 15 minutes of fame was when I was 19. I went to a comic book convention in NJ with my friends. I brought my portfolio. So did just about everyone else. I went around and saw the original works from the creator of Spiderman, I saw some artist that worked on the X-Men, Greg Adams, John Hereay, the arstist that worked on Barbie...she was brutal. They were very critacle and some almost hurtfull. Which was making me think maybe I should just get out of this business. Then I came to the table of Greg and Tim Hildebrandt. I can't really remember which was which but one of them completely disregarded me and said I have seen enough portfolios and I don't have the time and he sat there talking to his wife.

I turned and walked away and felt crushed like a tin can. Everything I had done for the past 8 years since I was 11 was just tossed away like old garbage. So I started heading toward the door making my way through the enormous crowd, when I felt someone tapping me on the shoulder.
I turned around and it was the other Hildebrandt, he had fought his way through the crowd just to find me.

He asked to see my portfolio again. He said to me my work had a lot of promise and I should never give up on my dreams and he said that I would make it someday and be somebody.

I never forgot that moment.

I also swore that I would never judge someone's artwork. To me artwork is an extention of one's sole and to put someone's artwork down is to put them down. It is devastating and I know how it feels and I would never do that to anyone.

Well I hope I haven't bored you too much. Got to make some more grips!!

[ramsee1]

You have a PM.

[The Frymarker]

I just wrote back

[MajorDamage]

Originally posted by Snooky
Aoin' around.

still like the AO Bunch

ok just give it up.

lol, wernt those both MINE?!
Well those two, and
Diffrent AOs
CrimeBox INC.
Wheres the Beef?
Girls like Paintball
AO EXTREME!
A Freakin O
And the ever popular...The AO FAMILY!

ENDO!

[personman]

Cheesehead?

[FooTemps]

If you set the contrast too high the images look to blocky. I'm looking to make smooth lines and still color it in well...

[ramsee1]

Any artwork should really be inked and then scanned. Once you have clean linework in photoshop, double-click that layer to make it a floating layer (as opposed to the background layer). You can now put this linework layer onto Multiply. Create all new color layers underneath this layer. With the top linework layer on multiply, no color can show through the black lines. Using selection tools and mass fills really increase the visibility of the stair-stepping effect, causing the image to look choppy.

[FooTemps]

Ramsee... That's why I use the lasso and that's why I like inking on paper. Just wondering but do you actually have your lines hard black or do you do dark variations of the colors you use?

[ramsee1]

Hello. The lines are always a solid black. I will try to find an example for ya...

http://www.spawn.com/board/ubb/Forum3/HTML/001086.html

[FooTemps]

I'm talkin about colored drawings... I've noticed some artists use a really dark variation of a color to soften the line a bit.

[ramsee1]

Right, I think I have a better example of the process when the color is added. I mean it would depend on your style. Most of the things I see at work are straight 100% black line work for things like edges and shadows. And it's a matter of your personal preference to use color to ahieve tonality, or something like stippling or crosshatching with ink.

http://spawn.com/features/spawn100/bts.page01.html

The spawn guys are a big fan of gradiations and strong light sources to set the mood. Hope that helps!