Showing Dad
Remember that scene in “Father of the Bride” when the daughter is telling her dad that she’s getting married, but he sees and hears her as if she is still a 5-year old kid? It’s amazing how often that scene plays in my mind these days when I look at the not-so-little people who used to be my babies!
In real life, husband has been pretty accepting of the purple hair. His only feelings about it is that daughter doesn’t need to change ANYTHING because she’s perfect. *grin* Of course, she’s perfect with purple hair, too.
In cartoon life, I think Bill needs one of those brain reboots Dale mentioned.
The characters and couch in this strip were sketched and blacklined in Manga Studio. (I can’t stay away from that program because the pen is so lovely.) I did each panel as a layer in one document, then exported just the blackline layers as a photoshop document. I then colored them in my usual way and then moved them to the strip document. Once they were in the strip document, the backgrounds, panel borders and dialogue were added.
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Purple hair is pretty nifty. I think cartoon Bill is lucky she didn’t opt for something more drastic, like no hair 
Samantha, I must respectfully decline your double-dog dare. Even if I decided to color my hair blue, I couldn’t afford to!
By the way, Samantha, I’ve been meaning to ask you a couple things about MangaStudio: Are you finding it handles tablet “jigglies” better than Photoshop? (By “jigglies” I mean the unintentional and unsightly jitter that you can get in lines drawn on a tablet in Photoshop, unless you zoom in very close.) And I’ve heard the Pro version enables creating artwork in vector format–is that how you’re working? (Maybe more questions for Wednesday? )
LOL@ you, JoanH.
Chris W.: Yes, the line smoothing in Manga Studio with the pen tool is MOST appealing. My hesitant strokes in Photoshop are confident brushes in Manga Studio. It smooths the strokes the way Flash does.. nice! The stroke is tapered on both ends in MS so it looks like a brush. I am not using the pro version (“EX”), so I can’t speak to that. In MS, you choose the size of your output (size of the page you wish to print or screen size) and work at that size by zooming in or out. You might be able to tell that I am still trying to find a way to get the best of both MS and PS!
(And I would save this for Wednesday if it wasn’t so technical! Send in your questions, folks!)
Yay! I’m famous! I have a mention in someone’s remakes about their comic! No applause, just throw money, bills preferably.
All joking aside, Bill looks more like his reality crashed around him and he can’t find the On/Off switch. ^_^