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FYI
/ FAQ
What
are your current tools for drawing this comic?
Every
webcomic artist has their own set of tools. This is just my
list. Most of the expensive pencils and pens I pretty much
got them through clearance. And then there's always Ebay.
Hand
- Plain B4 Deleter Manga paper
- A red grid plastic ruler
- 0.5 Papermate Apex or Staedtler integrity with 2H or red
leads
- 0.3 Pentel graphicgear pencil (for smaller drawings)
-
Erasers: black pearl, Clic-eraser, Tuff Stuff (for my apex/staedtlers)
- 0.1-0.2 Unipin pens (Or my Staedtler Technical .25-.35 pens)
- Art S. Buck model (Aka "Fred")
- Some good fruit juice (Iunno...)
Past
tools : Prismacolor Fine Line 01 Pen, Rapidograph,
Zebra 0.5 mech pencil, White/Pink pearl erasers, My 7 year
old Microtek scanner
Computer:
- Photoshop CS2 (Lettering, scanning, and effects)
- Open Canvas (shading)
- Sketchup
(with Adobe Acrobat output)
- Manga Studio EX 3.0 (lineart for colored illustrations only)
- Epson 2480 photo scanner
- Active Pen tablet monitor 17 inch (kind of like a Wacom
Cintiq)
- My 3-4 year old Gateway computer with 3gb of ram and Windows
XP
Why
are your updates so random/take so damn long?
Life
just gets in the way, especially when you're a nursing student
24/7. Plus, I try to do the best I can to get my pages done
and the most productive way: by uploading a batch at a time.
What's
up with your drawing/manga style on this comic? There's
nothing Japanese about this story.
Yes,
I suck at illustrating and putting Route 15 as a comic is
one of the ways I'm practicing on drawing. But this comic
is meant for story, for fun, and for myself and I'm doing
the best I can as a one gal team. There is a little bit of
Japanese relevancy but I can't get into the details without
spoiling it.
What's
your advice for making a long form webcomic?
Work
with a small page count, make the process simple, have a solid
story, treat this like homework, and get a team if you can.
If you're working on a big 50+ page project, I stress that
you work and plan on your story first. Brainstorm, outline
it, write it down, revise, brainstorm it, rinse, lather, repeat.
I've seen a lot of awesome artists give up on their webcomics
because they simply didn't have any more story to tell (including
one or two of mines). I feel it's an insult to leave your
readers and to your own characters hanging after so many months
or years of updating. So make sure you truly have a story
you believe in, page by page.
What's
life in Vegas like?
Just
peachy. I might be a straight edge person living in the valley
of Sin City, but the area I'm living at is surprisingly suburban.
I'm a quiet starving writer so I'm not a big casino/nightlife
person. But I do look forward to the cool weather out here
(with the exception of the boiling climate of the summer)
and all the rock shows this town has to offer. Also, a word
of advice to all you tourists taking a stroll on The Strip:
don't look down.
Which
characters belong to their respective owners?
Keith,
Kelly and Roland are Vince's/Hooplabuga's characters. Danny,
Aurora, Joe, Melvin and Fluffy are mines (apparently, the
first two are named from two Foo Fighters songs, Hooplabuga's
favorite band). The comic isn't really an exact representation
of what our original characters are since this project comes
from an RP thing.
Is
it possible to get a wandering musician and a FedUps/FedEx
delivery truck driver stranded in Interstate 15?
Considering
that 1) FedEx uses eighteen-wheelers to ship packages long
distances 2) there aren't any powerlines directly along the
shoulder to crash into and 3) Interstate 15 this is a popular
interstate with call boxes and the CHP at every mile... It's
just not likely. But hell, I wouldn't have a comic to draw
if real life applies <:
Who
the heck is Psychobob?
Psychobob
is a pet bright orangey fish with big sharp teeth who likes
eating sushi (don't ask). I use the name "Jen and Psychobob"
as a pseudonym on the internets (in case important people
like parents get the bright idea of googling me). It also
gets fun when Psychobob gets credit card and life insurance
offers in the mail.
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Psychofish
- Jen and Psychobob
Story,
Comic, Site
Likes: Sleeping, japanese food, tupperware, quirkyalone, common
sense
Dislikes: lathargy, bad anime/movies, rickrolls, showoffs,
smoking, haters, guns
Bands:
Coldplay, Crash Kings, Rise Against, Red Hot Chilli Peppers,
90's rock, Beethoven
Influences:
Shakespeare, Christopher Nolan, Coen Brothers, Samurai Champloo.
Jen is a Las Vegas resident who hails from her hometown of
Corona, California, two cities that are found on Interstate
15. She is also aspiring screenwriter with a varocious imagination,
whose countless stories and ideas spring out of her brain
and drive her sanity and social life nuts. Jen is a medical
nerd and her other hobbies include stamp collecting, rock
collecting, art supply collecting, amateur cooking, designing,
looking up squishy stuff on wikipedia, and fooling potential
suitors.
Hooplabuga
- Vince Santos
Concept
Likes:
Guns, drawing, writing, music, rickrolls, hookers and blow,
more guns.
Dislikes: smoking, fashion, wapanese
Bands: Foo Fighters, Interpol, Punk Rock
An
illustrator, writer, designer and overall artist, Vince has
always wanted to try something as ambitious as a webcomic.
With an unhealthy fascination with guns and government conspiracies,
it seems the time has come at long last. He is currently taking
up Animation as a freshman in the College of St.Benilde, and
needs money to buy hookers and blow.
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