Our pal Dan (@fallenkittenPro) has kicked off the WSG Lecture series over at Ustream. They air live Tuesdays at 9pm CET / 3pm EST on the WSG Lecture Series Ustream channel (http://www NULL.ustream NULL.tv/channel/wsg-lecture-series), but find any you’ve missed or would like to see again there as well.
[ WSG Lecture Series Ustream Channel (http://www NULL.ustream NULL.tv/channel/wsg-lecture-series) ]
This tutorial goes a bit more in depth than what most people would do for your every day comic, but the techniques included therein may interest you, especially if you are someone who usually works in grayscale looking to colorize your work. This alternative coloring technique uses adjustment layers and masks instead of hand brushing the color. (Not as scary as it sounds.)
[Use a Tablet to Create Stunning Comic Book Fan Art Illustrations (http://psd NULL.tutsplus NULL.com/tutorials/drawing/use-a-tablet-to-create-stunning-comic-book-fan-art-illustrations/)]
You can find this and a bunch of other useful items and references for webcomicers on our WSG Wiki.
Webcomics.com (http://www NULL.webcomics NULL.com/home/2010/4/22/the-facebook-like-button NULL.html) told us how to add a Facebook Like button to our web pages, but what if you wanted to display how many people liked you without using their default, and in my opinion, very boring template?
Hongkiat.com (http://www NULL.hongkiat NULL.com) has a quick tutorial on how to display the number of fans you have in text (http://www NULL.hongkiat NULL.com/blog/how-to-display-facebook-fan-count-in-text/). Because it’s outputting in text and not locked into a plugin, you can style it to look however you want with CSS, javascript, or whatever else you happen to use. You do need to move a couple files and code snippits around, but it’s mostly copy and paste so it’s not a hard technique to wrap your head around. How you use it after that is up to you.
[How to Display Facebook Fan Count in Text (http://www NULL.hongkiat NULL.com/blog/how-to-display-facebook-fan-count-in-text/#ixzz0rmIh4aJx)]
You can find this and a bunch of other useful items and references for webcomicers on our WSG Wiki.
The blog Abduzeedo (http://abduzeedo NULL.com) is more geared for design than comics, but this tidbit spans multiple art mediums. As part of their blog they include Daily Inspiration; a once-a-day collection of strange, creative, or just plain interesting images and videos that help get the creative juices flowing.
You can subscribe to their RSS feed (http://feeds NULL.feedburner NULL.com/abduzeedo) (which will catch all of their posts,) or if you’d like to see just their Daily Inspiration submissions, you can go to http://daily.abduzeedo.com ( http://daily NULL.abduzeedo NULL.com) to see them all on one page.
Here’s a trick Dave (http://underlingcomic NULL.com/) clued me in on in our latest study group session, and it’s one of those things where I do not know how I lived without it. It’s a simple that works for all versions of Photoshop, CS and above. Read the rest of this entry »
