Typing in Japanese~
やった～
楽しい～
I just got a new laptop because my other laptop's screen turned red and blue...O.o;
It has been almost 5 years since I have had windows on a laptop...oh my god...
I wouldn't say it is particularly wonderful though. It does have its charms. Mainly that I can download programs I want now. It is a lot slower than linux and it isn't as customizable which is a shammmmeee...;3;
But I can type in Japanese now because the keyboard actually works on this one (not that it doesn't work for linux, it was just that my laptop was so beat up certain important connections failed...). It is really funnn
Only thing is I think I set my entire computer to Japanese...oh well, more learning~
In other news....
I seriously need to rant for a moment...
I bought clip studio paint/comic studio/manga studio.............
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I literally cried and had a melt down for 3 hours while I was going through the features...
Like I don't know if anybody understands how much this means to me....
I always drew analog or with programs not made for making comics, or super duper crashing with little features free programs.
When I worked on Idolling I used a combination of photoshop elements, paint tool sai, and photoshop 7.0. When I worked on Blind Prototype I used Krita and GIMP. My most recent manga has been with SAI and GIMP. The manga I took to Shueisha I did all by hand.
So the problems that come with this are:
-have to buy or make my own screen tones (expensive or time consuming)
-I have to try so many different brushes to figure out what I need
-I have to draw all my persective lines by hand, all effects by hand
-The main problem is speed lines...drawn by hand...even digitally...
-Drawing individual backgrounds with no short hand
-Doing cross hatching by hand
-Doing panels by hand (meaning crooked lines and lots of clean up)
Literally the only thing that has set me back from drawing comics more often are these tedious things. I draw the characters, thumbnails, etc are all fine, then I get to the phase of needing to make tones, backgrounds, line effects, etc. and I just give up inside.
Clip studio paint allows you to do all of that stuff in just a few clicks...;m;
I cried when I used the cross hatching tool and the speed lines rulers...TT^TT
Shounen Jump is having a manga contest on pixiv from now until january so I am going to try my best and participate in it~
Also with the previous idea for a webcomic I have decided against because I can't really think of any plot past chapter 3..
Instead I have a more interesting idea in store~ But it'll be a secret~
And my third goal is to write a colored webcomic to publish on comico, which my friend kindly introduced me to.
All this stuff...and I still have finals to study for...
I will draw something on clip studio paint soon, but I gotta finish writing my papers and preparing for several finals.
Also my final project for ceramics blew up in the kiln so I am not sure what to do about that...and I was planning on finishing my papers today, but I got sidetracked by wonderful things so yeah...
I look forward to the future~ I haven't been this happy and full of inspiration in so long~
