My new comic
Meghana
inspiration for making a series of cartoons. Having tried a lot of
Line art stuff in PS, creating this was simple. Sketching by hand,
scanning it and then using GIMP for colouring
http://vividvaidehi.blogspot.com/
Do have a look. :)
Saad Akhtar
One tip though: (And this is true for many other comics) - The comics are not readable at default zoom. Have to click to get the larger image. I wonder if this is a blogspot thing, because it's quite common.
I assume you're making it primarily for the web? Why not design at a size that is viewable by default. You can go infinitely vertical and have the width stuck at 400/500/600 px.
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Meghana
problem... maybe if I have a substantial number of comics ready in a
few days, I'll make a separate website.
Thanks a lot!
On Jan 13, 10:25 am, Saad Akhtar <akhtars...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Subscribed. Will go through the comics eventually.. Look nice! :)
>
> One tip though: (And this is true for many other comics) - The comics are
> not readable at default zoom. Have to click to get the larger image. I
> wonder if this is a blogspot thing, because it's quite common.
>
> I assume you're making it primarily for the web? Why not design at a size
> that is viewable by default. You can go infinitely vertical and have the
> width stuck at 400/500/600 px.
>
> Saad Akhtar
> Webcomic: Fly, You Fools! <http://www.flyyoufools.com/>
> Phone: (+91) 9871820865
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Sasidhar
http://ageekstory.com/
Saad Akhtar
If you are planning to make this a regular thing, maybe you'd consider shifting to a self hosted domain with wordpress running on it? I mean, blogspot will only get you this far.... Starting plans for domain+space are quite cheap.. Couple of hundred rupees/year etc.
Check out comicpress: http://comicpress.org/
I'd suggest if you have not popularized your comic yet, then first decide if you want to self-host it in the near future. If yes, then first move to hosting first, then publicize. Otherwise there's the problem of transferring subscribers, down time, loosing google ranking etc.
Prateek Agarwal
Meghana
@Shashidhar: Wow... its scary, this likeness. Maybe she's my spiritual
twin...
@Saad: I really don't know if this is worth publicising, but I was
thinking of building a site for my photography anyway, so might as
well club it together with that. Lets see what I can come up with.
@Prateek: I find blogspot not so easy to use... but since I already
had a blog there, i decided to start another one with the same
profile.
On Jan 13, 10:45 am, Prateek Agarwal <agarwal.prat...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> blogger has pathetic editor too, the only thing why I am still stuck with
> blogger is you can edit the layout yourself (and my inertia since I started
> the blog) and it has Hindi transliteration in built that is why I use
> tumblr for my visualizations.
>
> @Saad: What are the overheads of getting a domain + host and use Wordpress
> at the back-end? Do I have to manage complexities of handling a server
> myself?
>
> -Prateek
> thequark.blogspot.com/
> <http://thequark.blogspot.com/>thequark.tumblr.com/
> <http://thequark.tumblr.com/>
>
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 6:40 AM, Saad Akhtar <akhtars...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > It's a blogspot thing then... No wonder so many webcomics prefer
> > wordpress+comicpress combo.
>
> > If you are planning to make this a regular thing, maybe you'd consider
> > shifting to a self hosted domain with wordpress running on it? I mean,
> > blogspot will only get you this far.... Starting plans for domain+space are
> > quite cheap.. Couple of hundred rupees/year etc.
>
> > Check out comicpress:http://comicpress.org/
>
> > I'd suggest if you have not popularized your comic yet, then first decide
> > if you want to self-host it in the near future. If yes, then first move to
> > hosting first, then publicize. Otherwise there's the problem of transferring
> > subscribers, down time, loosing google ranking etc.
>
> > Saad Akhtar
> > Webcomic: Fly, You Fools! <http://www.flyyoufools.com/>
> > Phone: (+91) 9871820865
> > Twitter <http://twitter.com/flyyoufools>Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=502402813>
> > Flickr <http://www.flickr.com/photos/saad>Linkedin<http://www.linkedin.com/in/saadakhtar>
>
> > On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Sasidhar <sakkir...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> I really like your style. Kinda reminded me of
> >>http://www.daniellecorsetto.com/gws.html
> >> <http://www.daniellecorsetto.com/gws.html>The character Hazel especially,
> >> other than the style :)
>
> >> I agree with Saad, try and find a blogspot template that allows for width
> >> = width of your comic. (there are tonnes of options available)
>
> >> Subscribed! Hoping to see lots more.
>
> >> Cartoons and cyclist! I might just have a crush on you now :)
>
> >> Cheers,
> >> -Sasidhar.
> >>http://ageekstory.com/
>
Saad Akhtar
Actually the overheads are negligible. The only expense is domain + space. I use GoDaddy for domains and Dreamhost for space. Domains are ~$10/year, don't remember the hosting but that too is not very expensive. $25 I think. For unlimited space/bandwidth and subdomains. A good deal..
There are some really cheap offers by hosting providers but they usually end in disaster. I started out with a $10/year plan from one.com - They have terrible service, restrictive servers/backend and when I switched over to dreamhost, my site was down for 2 weeks with little help from them. Quite a bad experience.
So I'd recommend DreamHost and other "in the middle" hosting people. Overall it's not much... comes to around 1000-2000 per year. You'd spend this on a night out with friends. I'd say a good investment.
Wordpress is free. Comicpress is free (although I dont use it) and hundreds of other WP themes are free. You can find one that fits your needs.
The managing server part is easy. In fact you don't have to do anything once wordpress is installed. And it's easy to install (one click from the control panel).
Meghana:
What do you mean not worth publicizing? Always publicize your webcomic! You've already put in the effort and it's going great... :)
meenakshi krish
Nice comic Meghana
I agree with Saad. When you have come this far putting all the effort into the comic, it is worth it to make it viewer friendly.
thequark
My attempts at re-telling old fables:
The Thirsty Crow http://thequark.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/the-thirsty-crow/
the fox and the grapes – reloaded http://thequark.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/the-fox-and-the-grapes-reloaded/
-Prateek
On Jan 13, 6:14 am, Meghana <draconianr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi! I've been drawing a bit here and there, but then I got the
> inspiration for making a series of cartoons. Having tried a lot of
> Line art stuff in PS, creating this was simple. Sketching by hand,
> scanning it and then using GIMP for colouringhttp://vividvaidehi.blogspot.com/
Prateek Agarwal
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