I'll admit it. I suck at keeping up on things.
Seriously, I've got like four or five unfinished blog posts waiting in the queue.
At least I've managed to keep up on, somewhat, the Meet the Geek's blog page. I'm averaging about two blog posts a week there.
Meet the Geeks is moving along reasonably well. I've found a bunch of old comics that I never finished so I've been taking time in the evenings, when I can, to touch them up, finish inking them, and now even starting to colour them.
Part of what had been keeping me away from working on the comic was that I could'n't find a lot of my tools to prep the comics for the web. My copy of photoshop is still packed away somewhere so I was able to find a work around program that frankly is a lot more intuitive than photoshop and better suited to my comics work. That program is a free add on for Microsoft Paint and is called paint.net. It's a simple and clean paint program that does everything that Photoshop needed to for comic creators and isn't $20 a month or $800 dollars or whatever. Plus it's open source and a user created an add on called isolate line art that does just that so you're not required to jump through the hoops that Photoshop needed to get your line art. One click and you're done.
Also found my old Wacom tablet in my boxes. Fortunately the drivers work with Windows 10 so I didn't need to go out and buy a new tablet.
The most recent MTG comic was coloured in paint.net and, while I'm not happy with some of the colours, it at least gave me a chance to work on my technique. It came back to me as I worked through it.
So there you go folks. Cartoonist Corey is back. I'll be updating as much as I can over the coming months. In the meantime check out the Meet the Geeks blog right here on Blogger.
~Brother K'Bob
