{"id":263,"date":"2010-07-20T07:00:24","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T11:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/?p=263"},"modified":"2010-07-26T22:28:12","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T02:28:12","slug":"blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/blue\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Non-photo blue pencil example. Click for larger image.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

I draw five comic features, so I need to work fast.\u00a0 One of the great time savers is the non-photo blue pencil<\/strong>.\u00a0 It’s a simple and efficient approach.\u00a0 The blue pencil lines don’t scan.\u00a0 So, as I draw, I can get as sketchy as I want.\u00a0 I can draw and redraw a character or background to find the right look. Once I’ve got everything the way I want it, I then pull out my pens and start inking.<\/p>\n

I lay a nice black line atop the blue lines.\u00a0 Funnily, I can find the exact lines I want to ink in black, even though all those blue lines are jumbled up a bit.\u00a0 At times, I need to pull out a red pencil to refine and define the exact blue line I want to ink.\u00a0 Or, I simply press a little bit more with the blue pencil and make the line I want inked a little bit darker than the rest.<\/p>\n

Once the inking is completed, I do a one bit black and white line art scan.\u00a0 A one bit scan reads only two colors, black and white.\u00a0 It won’t read the blue lines. Therefore, these become invisible to the scanner and drop out.\u00a0 The final result is a nice finished comic strip with black lines on a white background.<\/p>\n

It’s clean and complete and ready to be send to newspapers.\u00a0 And I didn’t have to spend a lot of time erasing unwanted pencil lines.\u00a0 I can then open this comic strip file in Gimp<\/a>, add color, resize, and edit to my heat’s content.<\/p>\n

From hard to soft, non-photo blue pencils come in a variety of lead grades.\u00a0 You’ll need to try a few and experiment to find which one is most comfortable.<\/p>\n

(Click here<\/a> to see how the final strip came out.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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