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On the plus side, I think paraplegics are grateful that you're giving them some spotlight by having your entire cast consist of them.
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Kaxen Though I haven't yet remedied that fact legs tend to not exist in Kaxen-Land. I'm pretty sure you can count every instance of a leg being visible in Under One Sky on one hand. Pfft, legs are for losers. :B |
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Sorry to be so completely not in the current conversation, but I'm actually going to start drawing my first comic pages tonight (just finished thumbnailing!) and I don't want to create a new thread or anything for such a small question.
I'm wondering if anyone has a good set of general bleed/trim values or rules that they use? I just want to draw on letter size printer paper because this is for practice anyways, and I've googled and googled and not come up with too much useful into about general bleed and trim values. I just mean something like 'you should keep at least a quarter inch for bleed' or something to that effect. |
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I... er... *brain fizzes... pop* No idea.
Guys, help? |
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Mr McGrumpypants On the plus side, you're giving paraplegics a confidence boost by having your cast filled with them. I actually have a hilariously overblown idea of what precisely paraplegics and amputees can do (I blame the paralympics and the blind swordsman and superheroes and easily impressionable childhood)... one of the pilots (scheduled to appear in chapter 3) is actually supposed to be missing both his legs, and flying anyway... And there is an actual pilot (whose name escapes me) during WWII who did lose his legs, but jumped back into the cockpit anyhow. |
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Jyoti Sorry to be so completely not in the current conversation, but I'm actually going to start drawing my first comic pages tonight (just finished thumbnailing!) and I don't want to create a new thread or anything for such a small question. I'm wondering if anyone has a good set of general bleed/trim values or rules that they use? I just want to draw on letter size printer paper because this is for practice anyways, and I've googled and googled and not come up with too much useful into about general bleed and trim values. I just mean something like 'you should keep at least a quarter inch for bleed' or something to that effect. Scott McCloud, you have failed me! BAWW!!! |
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Kaxen I actually have a hilariously overblown idea of what precisely paraplegics and amputees can do (I blame the paralympics and the blind swordsman and superheroes and easily impressionable childhood)... one of the pilots (scheduled to appear in chapter 3) is actually supposed to be missing both his legs, and flying anyway... And there is an actual pilot (whose name escapes me) during WWII who did lose his legs, but jumped back into the cockpit anyhow. |
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Blasphemy! I didn't mean to touch off an existential McCloud-related crisis. xD
NaNoMangO looks so tempting, but I know I can't do it because of school. Silly school. |
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Jyoti Blasphemy! I didn't mean to touch off an existential McCloud-related crisis. xD NaNoMangO looks so tempting, but I know I can't do it because of school. Silly school. McCloud is like god of comic making, or something. I really can't give you a definite answer, but what looks pleasing to me is no smaller than 1/4 of an inch for the gutters. I can't give you a good answer for the bleeds though. |
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Jyoti Blasphemy! I didn't mean to touch off an existential McCloud-related crisis. xD NaNoMangO looks so tempting, but I know I can't do it because of school. Silly school. |
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YES!
MY PENCIL WAS NOT LOST! I had just shoved it in a course notebook and forgotten about it. I wish I could do nanomango, but it's sort of impossible during term time. I'll have to do my own version closer to Christmas or something, though, if I want to get s**t for the Thing done in time. |
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Synyster Slash Ah, when I try to write/plan it as I go, I tend to have twice as many pages than I intended. Still haven't figured that out. I'm just going through my "Comic notebook" and I'm gonna start drawing from the begining and work my way to whatever I've got pre-scripted. Got nothing else to do in November so I might as well try to get 2 comics done if I can. |
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Tovarish Groznaya The only way to learn is by doing. >:[ Unless you're that one Marvel comic artest, then the only way to learn is by tracing it from porn. |
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Jyoti Sorry to be so completely not in the current conversation, but I'm actually going to start drawing my first comic pages tonight (just finished thumbnailing!) and I don't want to create a new thread or anything for such a small question. I'm wondering if anyone has a good set of general bleed/trim values or rules that they use? I just want to draw on letter size printer paper because this is for practice anyways, and I've googled and googled and not come up with too much useful into about general bleed and trim values. I just mean something like 'you should keep at least a quarter inch for bleed' or something to that effect. aaaggggg.... what is it. You've got whatever size your live area is, Then your safety zone which is usually 1/16th of an inch and your trim which is also 1/16th of an inch, so you're giving a full area of about .5" to be on the safe side EDIT: I always did the width of a ruler on the side that was going to get stapled and a 1/2 width on the sides that were going to get cut. Because if the cut sides are a little long, you can cut them, and if they're a little short you can slice into the saftey zone just a little, but if staple side is long then it still can look okay, but if it's short it's totally cut off and you've got to bend the book to crap to see. So better to give staple side just a little extra |
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You know what I just noticed about dominic deegen... (yea I like that comic shaddap)
ALL his comics, ALL the faces are either 1/2 view or 3/4th side view. ALL OF THEM. his last comic was the first time that there has ever been a full frontal center face view of any character. And now I see why he doesn't do center face views often. Or any other angles for that matter. But still, interesting... |
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