The Wall of Geek

[kybearfuzz]

On Saturday, while running my usual errands, I stopped by the local comic book shop to look for a back issue or two of "Superboy and The Legion of Super-Heroes." The parking lot was nearly full, which should have been my first clue that this wasn't going to go well. While the place does decent business, this seemed unusual.

I went inside to find that it was apparently RPG game day. With my apologies to the gamers on my friends list, I just have never gotten into the RPG thing. While I find you guys very grounded and normal and likely do this for fun, the crowd of adults in this comic book store was staggeringly disturbing. It was a collection of guys who either live together as roommates or live solo still holding up in their respective parents' basement. If there was a cult looking for a virgin sacrifice, it would have been a buyers' market for them in here.

I'm being the judgmental bitch here (and for humorous effect of course), because the store is small and with the game tables set up, the wall of geek was blocking the new comic books. So I turned down another aisle to the back-issues, my reason for coming in the first place, to find the guys had spread out and was laying their cards out on the back issue boxes. So, after being blocked from the new AND the old, I just left in a disgusted huff. I think the assistant manager saw me leave empty-handed and wearing a scowl.

After heading home, I started coloring some cartoons of mine. What a difference color can make. My only complaint is that I think the tones I used were a bit too yellow.


Before...


After...

Happy Monday.. if that's possible...

Comments

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

The yellow makes the white pop! As to the store ... for those of us who do not "game", what is RPG?

Have a good week!

HUGS!

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

An "RPG" is a "Role Playing Game," like Dungeons and Dragons and that sort of thing.

[mort-83.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I was also going to ask for a translation.

;-P

[texwriterbear.livejournal.com]

First of all the color looks amazing on the cartoon. Really makes it pop.
I'm sure the assistant manager wasn't happy seeing you leaving empty handed, especially if you are a regular, when most of the other people there were probably not.

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

I can't get too mad at them. In this economy, I'm sure every little bit helps and I'm sure the RPGeeks pay a fee to play in the store.

And it's not like I wont be back.

[notmypresident.livejournal.com]

Do you create your art in layers for easy digital coloring?

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

I do use Photoshop to do the coloring, but I'm almost completely self-taught at it, so I'm sure I'm doing a lot of things wrong and/or making it harder than it has to be.

I use layers to make the line art darker. I then tend to color on the main layer, flatten it, then add the gradient shadings using more layers. It basically becomes a layer --> color --> flatten --> repeat process.

I'm sure there is an easier way to do it.

[mort-83.livejournal.com]

I always wondered how you did the coloring. You mentioned to me a long time ago how you do the lettering. The color I had no idea.

Very cool.

[kybearfuzz.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

I'm tempted to pay a local friend of mine to teach me how to use Photoshop properly. He has a degree in graphics arts and has referred to Photoshop as "his bitch" in the past.

And I'll be playing with the lettering program tonight. Fun things are looming soon, I hope.

[mort-83.livejournal.com]

Make that software YOUR bitch! GRRRR!

[notmypresident.livejournal.com]

With your line art, it would be very easy to select different areas for multiple layers; coloring and special effects would be super-easy that way

But maybe you do that already and I'm just pulling a Homer Simpson.