I need to go to bed... like, now.

[secondlina]

...You know, before I kill something. With my pencil sharpener.

I'm still a beginner at photoshop coloring. So yeah. It is a frustrating endeavor. I'm trying to find a style for the "prologue" of Namesake, which is a flashback. I tried a bunch of things. Ended up choosing this Burton-esque coloring. Which is good enough. I guess. The words are weird. The drawing looks so organic that any computerized font looks terrible. But it needs to be readable. I hate you FONT! I HATE ALL OF YOU. DIE FONTS DIE.

It's 2h30 am. I've been trying to color for about 5 hours. I fail. 

I'm still okay with the result and considering my photoshop skills aren't going to improve overnight, i'll guess i'll just go with this.

Probably make it less dark though. It's too dark right?

Yeah, only showing one panel. Because full pages are still a secret!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Paler version : (with different font)



In other news, I'm really starting to hate the street people in Montréal. I found the ones in Ottawa to be pretty chill. I even had long conversations with a few. And here in Montréal, the street wiseman was awesome. But some other guys. They suck.

I'm at a subway station, this guy comes up to me to give me his little story ("I'm not from here, I need 4 bucks for the bus blah blah blah"). I'm nice enough, I turn my ipod off. Listen to his little story. Decide to look for change. I say, as I open my wallet "I don't know if I have any change". 

Guy replies : "It's okay, i'll take that five dollars bill right there."
What? No. Don't tell me what to give you. Uncool man.
I end up pulling out a two dollars coin (yes, we have those in Canada) and give it to him because it's my only change.

The guy looks at the money, gives me an evil glare, and walks away. No thank you. Nothing. Dude. I didn't have to give you anything! I worked for that money! That's 20 minutes of my time! Right there! The least you could do is say THANKS. JAYSUS YOU IMPOLITE F*CKER!

I don't mind giving my money. Truly, it makes me feel good to help someone out. But this type of attitude makes me want to reach and take it back. Or kick his teeth in. A thank you doesn't cost anything. And if you are asking for money, it's a part of the interaction. People don't "owe" anything to street people. It's a choice for them to do what they do the same way it is our choice to give them change, a warm meal, a conversation...

This guy makes the other guys look bad. If I ever see him again, i'm going to ignore the loving crap out of him. And donate to the guy 5 steps away. WHILE GIVING HIM A GLARE. YEAH DUDE. SEE THIS? F*CK YOU. F*CK YOU YOU IMPOLITE DINOSAUR.

Here ends my anger for the day.

Sleep now. Oh god sleep.

- Isa

EDIT : 



OKAY THIS MAKES IT BETTER KTHX

Comments

[putri-nih.livejournal.com]

Hey Isa you ever try make your own font? You draw your own font and then you process it in Ilustrator as a font file and boom you have your own font. Failing that just keep the origibal scan and copy and paste the words as you need them.

I did it for my caricature portfolio. Looked better than any normal font.Behold:


I'm sorry to hear about your experience. :( I had a similar experiencetwo years ago. There was a bake sale and I bought a lot of sausage bread in Chinatown and on the way home there was a beggar--and Igave them two of my breads and they were like, "Hey! Get back here! I want money" I was pretty miffed.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Creating my own font would be interesting, but i'm told me handwritting isn't that easy to read... I'll have to think about it. But great suggestion!

See! IMPOLITE DINOSAURS

[putri-nih.livejournal.com]

Keep the lighter BG and darker charcter or vica versa.

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

I agree with the person above, you ought to look into making your handwriting into a font. I know of at least one comic artist who did, and it saved him a lot of time without losing the personal touch. Heck, I've been wanting to make my own font since forever. I just haven't figured out how to do it for free.

You better be careful with giving handouts. You might be better off keeping loonies and toonies in your pocket to give away without ever having to open your wallet. Beggars can't demand what they can't see. And I'd rather you not get your wallet snatched (or worse!) should someone decide to take what they please. Just be careful.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Yeah, opening my wallet was pretty stupid. I'll have to think about it next time. But I didn't have any in my pockets. Probably should have stopped there, unless the guyg is awesome, like the wiseman. This guy wasn't really nice from the get-go.

[dqbunny.livejournal.com]

I agree, I think the biggest issue on that example panel is that there is no contrast at times. Alice in particular suffers from this - the detail in the original drawings we approved is pretty much gone.

Have you tried downloading the font Anime Ace? That's similar to what is on comic book pages and may look better there. Could also try perusing the free front sites and tweaking available fonts to get what we want - that's what I did with the main Namesake font.

Hey, two more days and you get me back! We plan to get to Mechanicsburg on Monday night.

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

I added a paler version to this entry with "anime ace" as a font. Let me know what you think. Maybe I should just dump this and go right on to a sepia style.

[dqbunny.livejournal.com]

I think the font looks better, but we can still experiment. The pale version looks a lot better. Alice does not look so washed out.

[paul-scribbles.livejournal.com]

Looking GOOD!!! Are you sure you're new to PS colouring? This looks fantastic! Fonts are the bane of my life too! My tutor insisted I do it by hand, but I think she was obsessed with getting everybody's work to look like it was done by a monkey on the back of a cigarette packet. I can't find a font I can work with, but I hate my own handwriting more. I've tried this thing of creating a handwritten font but... life's too short. It's a horrendous process.
Agree entirely about aggressive beggars. There's a woman who waits for me at the bus stop. There can be hundreds of people milling about but she will only home in on her favourite visually-impaired victim. Give her any number of coins and she starts beefing that her daughter will starve to death unless she gets some paper money. She's started asking me to take her home with me!

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty new to PS coloring yeah. I've been practicing a lot and though the result isn't bad, it's not what i'm trying to do. It doesn't look like it does in my head. So I wound up being a frustrated artist XD

... Weird begger person you got there.

[starmetal-oak.livejournal.com]

I never give out money. Not because I'm not caring, but because most of those beggars do it for a living. A heard of a guy who begged and made like $40,000 a year. I know there are real homeless people out there, but I would usually give actual food instead of money.

Anyways, only in Montreal you'd find bilingual homeless people. How does that even work?

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I try to avoid beggers who have punk clothing (especially branded ones. That's 500$ for pants!) or that have things that look like cell phone bags and stuff. Frankly, I think it's disgusting to pretend to be homeless and then drive back home at the end of the day. Truly. Disgusting. I don't like people who make money off the back of others. I'm okay with it if people truly need it (worker's comp was created for the needy, after all), but those who truly need it are usually those who appreciate it and get back on their feet after a while. People who slime their way into the system, making those who truly need it look bad, not lifting a finger and taking pride in their laziness and cunningness IT MAKES ME WANT TO PUNT THEM THRU A WALL.

[kitesareevil.livejournal.com]

It's getting there, Isa, it's getting there! *dances* GANBARU!

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm trying! It's giving me a headache though.

[spankingfemme.livejournal.com]

Hrm... That homeless guy was a douche! I would have told him to F off the moment he told me what I needed to give him *growl*\

On to better things:

I like your coloring! Why are you not happy with it :/ The paler version is my fave of the two ;)

OMG! LOL! That bottom pic is too funny! *snerk* XD

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Apparently rude dudes on the street are pretty common around that subway station where I was. Mental note is made.

I don't know why i'm not happy with it. Maybe I just wish I had a different drawing/coloring style or something.

[spankingfemme.livejournal.com]

We all want a style we don't have I find :P It's human nature ;)

[engelen.livejournal.com]

I never give money to street people. EVER. It's actually a bad thing here... I believe some of the beggar kids are handled by mafia people and stuff... Also, I've been told of crippled guys who are dropped off at their corners by people driving in luxurious vans.
Being a beggar here is kind of a "job," and tehy do make a shitload of money.

Also, I could make a coloring tutorial if you want? Just for you... just give me the line-art and I'll do something...

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

...wow, That's pretty low on the awesome scale. WTF scamming people like that!

Thanks for suggestion the tutorial, but i'm going to decline. I've been reading a million tutorials and right now, I feel like I just have too much information. I might take you up on it later. but not right now. Isa needs to think about something else for a bit.

[engelen.livejournal.com]

1) hah, it's funny, because that seems completely logical and natural to me XD
Did you see Slumdog Millionaire? The part with all the kids being exploited by the bad guy... I guess it's kind of like that here, except we don't get singing kids, and they're not blind...

2) ok, good luck :D

Namesake Drawings

[fortheloveofsam.livejournal.com]

Personally, I'd have to say that the darker coloring looks a bit better to me. However, the font on the lighter one is a bit more fitting. Either way, I think the drawings are great.

As for the streetguy. Wow. I try not to give money to street people where I live simply because of the fact that most of it is just going to go towards booze. I honestly hope that Montréal is better about that.

Anyway. I hope the rest of your week goes better. :)

[savageknight.livejournal.com]

Hmm... I guess you weren't given the guided tour of the Montreal streets prior to moving here... :)

Seriously, it's extremely bad/ fake. Especially in the downtown side/ core. There's one woman I pass every now and again on Sherbrooke. Her take is actual crying/ tears as part of her begging. The first time I saw her, I was a little taken aback. But then I saw her every day doing the same thing. I could imagine that kind of weeping perhaps for a day... but not for weeks on end.

Another time a guy in a metro actually pissed me off with his antics and I followed him around for a bit. He would go from station to station asking for handouts on the actual platform. Watching him target his "marks" I could see who would be next. After a few stops, I got pissed off enough to sick the cops on him since I knew if I would tackle him myself I would be the one to get in trouble :)

[secondlina.livejournal.com]

Urgh. Why are people like this...? I'm so disapointed by this. Bad people, bad.