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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 (40 sheets)
- 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
- 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 nursing school. 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.
I
suck at illustrating. 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. The area I'm living at is surprisingly suburban. I'm
a quiet starving student 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 overbake climate of the summer)
and all the rock and entertainment shows this place 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
and Roland are Vince's/Hooplabuga's characters. Danny and
Aurora are mines.
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 <:
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Psychobob
- Jen Elamparo
Comic,
Story, Site
Likes: sleeping, 90's rock, sushi, fruit juice, tupperware,
white russian, quirkyalone
Dislikes: lathargy, bad anime/movies, rickrolls, casinos,
showoffs, smokers
Jen, aka Psychobob, is a Las Vegas resident who hails from
her hometown of Corona, California (right next to the Interstate
15 freeway). Jen is an aspiring screenwriter with a varocious
imagination, whose countless stories and ideas spring out
of her brain and drive her sanity and social life nuts. Her
other hobbies include stamp collecting, rock collecting, art
supply collecting, amateur cooking, designing, looking up
squishy stuff on wikipedia, and fooling potential suitors.
She's curently taking her Nursing BSN and learning weird stuff
like 18 gauge needles and foley catheters (do NOT Google this
up!).
Hooplabuga
- Vince Santos
Story
Likes: Guns, drawing, writing, music, rickrolls, hookers
and blow, more guns.
Dislikes: smoking, fashion, wapanese
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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