#lasiks

[dddemigirl]

Goodbye little friends! You've served me well when I didn't have 20/20 vision. It's great to have it now. :3 I donated my glasses. #LASIKS #LASIK #Glasses

[skullsquadron]

I'm sorry this took so long.  In between the last comic and this one I upgraded my tools a little.  I was using a wacom tablet and my laptop.  Have been for years.  But with all the talk of the Surface Pro's these past couple years, I was definitely interested in using that to put out these small comics.  With the 3 getting good enough reviews online as an "Artist's Tablet," I thought it was time to upgrade, so I picked up a surface pro 3.  

While it is a neat tool, it is not ideal, and getting used to it with the sporadic time I have to work on things was a process.  In an effort to find the very best way of doing these little comics, and doing them as quickly as possible (let's face it I need to get quicker) I tried a few different approaches.  As a learning tool, I drew another webcomic, one from a few years ago.  I didn't feel ready to do this comic yet, not that its technically too difficult,  but I just didn't feel as comfortable with this as I did my other comic which has 100 comics to it's name.  I'm in the process of updating my comic site for that other comic, so I won't direct you to it yet.  And it's older, so it has its issues, but it was still fun.  

Anyway, so I worked a while on trying to find the way that felt the most comfortable to get this all done.  The pen on the surface Pro 3 is different than the wacom, so that was the biggest challenge.  That and photoshop. I was used to CS4, and while I was already in the mood to upgrade, I thought I'd give CS Suite online a try.  Pretty neat world we live in where we can just pay a monthly fee to have photoshop, the newest version.  I also decided to give illustrator a try.  A program I'd never used, and one that worked so much differently than photoshop.  

In the end, I found Photoshop to be a great tool for finalizing everything, but really nothing more.  I found Illustrator to be an excellent tool to do basic line art, as there is a free-hand pen-like tool that autocorrects slightly deformed lines due to shakey hand or whatever.  So that was neat, but I couldn't justify using it in the end.  It was good, but not perfect.  

In the end, after drawing this comic a few times over, manga studio became my go-to program.  The brushes are the best and easiest to use of any program, and the talk bubbles were easier to do in manga studios as well.  I'd never colored in manga studio either, so that took a little getting used to as well.  But in the end it was simple enough, and probably a little less time consuming than photoshop.  

Anyway, so here's the new comic, hope you like it.  I will speed up on this stuff.  I promise.  I have a story to tell, and I've yet to really start.  This will be an adventure, soon, I promise.  

[lukewarmmilk]

im sure no one will read this but i cnt even read this bc my eyes are dilated from an eye exam

what kind of eye exam does that? one to see if im a candidate for lasik eye surgery. i am. im gonna called tomorrow and sched an appt for this friday. hella.

no contacts, no glasses, all awesome YUHH

my vision is so bad and the laser has to correct to such an extent that i need special eye stuff to prevent  irritation lolololol