#39: Tallying Survey Results
Wednesday, 8 October 2008
Wednesday, 8 October 2008
To be fair, my survey-scratch is also nigh-unreadable, unless I really, really hated whatever class I was taking.
Today’s comic features: pencil! This is not that new. Despite what the About page says, I’ve begun to flip-flop and I’ve started carrying a pencil around and using it to sketch the comics. This is why they’ve generally looked cleaner than the splotchy madness of the early FC!s. Plus with this comic, I took a different tactic, with mixed results. It turns out I am not used to working with Sumi ink, and outlines are a boon at small scales. Who knew? Live & learn.
No big long spiel today. See you tomorrow!
October 8th, 2008 at 04:49
I like the pencil. It feels very mushy. (Or smooshy? or…) Your hair has a particularly good quality in this one.
I’m very curious to see what your handwriting is like since you’re more or less lettering this. Hmm. When I was in Florence I befriended a chalk artist (vaguely as I only talked to him twice) and he wanted to see my sketchbook, which I showed him. And what was interesting - he commented that my handwriting was different according to how I was feeling.
October 8th, 2008 at 09:41
Thankyew
My normal handwriting is this weird mix of cursive and printed letters. I don’t think many people write that way, though I heard a story that Thomas Pynchon was in a literature class that Nabokov taught, and though Nabokov himself didn’t remember him, his wife did because she helped correct papers, and Pynchon wrote his with an distinctive mix of cursive and printed letters.
Maybe I’ll scan some someday?