The Hitchhiker's Guide to Friendship-Criticism, ideas, and thoughts PLEASE!

[Bohtty 1,775]

Why yes, yes I do.

Pardon?

 

Have you done any sort of layout work for the actual comic?

also what kind of pens are we talking hear?

Edited June 3, 2012 by Bohtty

[Sir Wafflington 21]

Have you done any sort of layout work for the actual comic?

 

Like panel layout or plot layout-answer to both is yes, but which one are you talking about?

 

also what kind of pens are we talking hear?

 

Rollerball pens. (my personal favorite!)

[Mephala 2,633]

I'd read it! :3

[Bohtty 1,775]

Like panel layout or plot layout-answer to both is yes, but which one are you talking about?

Rollerball pens. (my personal favorite!)

 

I was asking about both, it's good that you have them. You may also want to look into getting a few brush pens since it's easier to get varying line widths with a brush pen. Additionally I find that ball point pens don't scan well and usually result in a lower line quality in general, but that's just me. Do what your most comfortable with.

 

I won't really be able to give you any other advice until I actually see some of your work.

 

Do you plan to issue this digitally?

[Sir Wafflington 21]

I find that ball point pens don't scan well and usually result in a lower line quality in general, but that's just me. Do what your most comfortable with.

 

Rollerballs are different that ballpoint pens. The handle like them, but the result is similar to that of a fountain pen. I never use ballpoints, they suck for art, and they can't erase, so I can't write with them either. But I'll look into brush pens, and since there's a place in Austin with pretty much everything art, I could get 'em there.

 

I won't really be able to give you any other advice until I actually see some of your work.

 

I'll post the layout of the first few pages later today.

 

But at the moment I have a few pieces of possible chaacter designs art on page 1 of the topic...

 

Do you plan to issue this digitally?

 

Yes, this is a digital place, therefore it must be issued... DIGITAL STYLE!

[Bohtty 1,775]

Rollerballs are different that ballpoint pens. The handle like them, but the result is similar to that of a fountain pen.

 

Right, but roller ball pens tend to spread since they are water based inks. usually.

 

But at the moment I have a few pieces of possible chaacter designs art on page 1 of the topic...

 

They are decent as sketches, however I would recommend going through the entire process using guide lines and spheres. It will help you with the proportions, which from what I can see, seems to be their largest problem.

 

 

Yes, this is a digital place, therefore it must be issued... DIGITAL STYLE!

 

Then do you have the appropriate software and hardware? IE: a tablet + Photoshop/alternative or Illustrator/alternative

[Sir Wafflington 21]

Right, but roller ball pens tend to spread since they are water based inks. usually.

 

I was promoting them or anything-It just sounded like you were putting them on the same level as ballpoints.

 

They are decent as sketches, however I would recommend going through the entire process using guide lines and spheres. It will help you with the proportions, which from what I can see, seems to be their largest problem.

 

Actually I'm going for that, ya see, I WANT them to not have a standard proportion so each and every panel's contents is a little off. In doing that, I am having the reader looking at it thinking "Hey, wait a sec! that doesn't look quite right..." Having the art get in your face and make you ask "why? Why is it like this?"-to which it will then say, "you figure it out, it's your problem, not mine." It's more fun that way!

 

Then do you have the appropriate software and hardware? IE: a tablet + Photoshop/alternative or Illustrator/alternative

 

Oh... That type of digital... I was going to do it plan, draw, ink, scan TO DIGITAL FORM, and upload. Ain't gotta tablet, nor photoshop, got paint.net though, kind of a mix of the two...

[Bohtty 1,775]

Actually I'm going for that, ya see, I WANT them to not have a standard proportion so each and every panel's contents is a little off. In doing that, I am having the reader looking at it thinking "Hey, wait a sec! that doesn't look quite right..." Having the art get in your face and make you ask "why? Why is it like this?"-to which it will then say, "you figure it out, it's your problem, not mine." It's more fun that way!

 

Right now it just says rushed drawing with no plan. Just because you want weird proportions doesn't mean you should ignore the guide lines. Even caricature artists use them. I would say that you're not quite ready to make a comic on a professional or even semi professional level. Of course I'm not saying you can't, you will do what you want which is your right. I'm sure it will be good for what it is anyways.

 

Good luck and keep practicing.

[jdor11 91]

well beside's the drawing it's self what about the story? what is your mane plot?

[Sir Wafflington 21]

Right now it just says rushed drawing with no plan. Just because you want weird proportions doesn't mean you should ignore the guide lines. Even caricature artists use them. I would say that you're not quite ready to make a comic on a professional or even semi professional level. Of course I'm not saying you can't, you will do what you want which is your right. I'm sure it will be good for what it is anyways.

 

Good luck and keep practicing.

 

You're right, those are rushed drawings- I said so in the same post showed them in-they were drawn in class while the teacher wasn't looking. I see how what I said may be interpreted as having little to no plan, but do I have guidelines for them, I am referring to thing like, say, eye or ear size-in one panel have one ear be larger than the other, than switch it in the next. And duh I can't do it anything near the pros, I know very little about comics, since I usually draw random stuff that comes out of my pencil.

 

well beside's the drawing it's self what about the story? what is your mane plot?

 

My plot, as I have stated multiple times now, is essentially the same as the series, in terms of same basic flow and major details, but with some events missing and turned into more pony-like things.

[jdor11 91]

but are you going to add any plot? does something completely different from the story happen?

[Sir Wafflington 21]

but are you going to add any plot? does something completely different from the story happen?

 

Well, my original plan with this was to keep it from straying too far away from the series's it's based on, so not really.

 

Do you think it would be better if it were to be a conpletely different story?

[jdor11 91]

i think it would be better if it was more like a sequel but in pony form, playing the same movie or play again would just be boring because you know what will happen next.

[Sir Wafflington 21]

i think it would be better if it was more like a sequel but in pony form, playing the same movie or play again would just be boring because you know what will happen next.

 

How can I do a sequel to a series that ended with all but one of the main characters dying?

[jdor11 91]

well first off no one died other then the mice,

second you can continue from the point they left off at, they left to go to the restaurant at the end of the galaxy...

[Sir Wafflington 21]

well first off no one died other then the mice,

second you can continue from the point they left off at, they left to go to the restaurant at the end of the galaxy...

 

I'm talking about the book series which the movie was loosley based of the first of the "trilogy" containing five

books named-in order-The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Life, the Universe, and Everything, So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, and finally, Mostly Harmless. At the end of Mostly Harmless everybody is killed except Zaphod and Marvin-(who had died earlier on).

[jdor11 91]

oh i would in that case actually base it off the movie because more people know about the movie then the book's

[Sir Wafflington 21]

But wait. If more people know about the movie, then if I base it off the book series with a few changes like I said before, less people would find it repetitive, right?

[jdor11 91]

yes and no, the movie and the book's both have a similar (not the exactly the same) plot.

plus from what i know if you use your imagination to make a new story it has more.... spice to it, you know what i mean?

[Sir Wafflington 21]

yes and no, the movie and the book's both have a similar (not the exactly the same) plot.

plus from what i know if you use your imagination to make a new story it has more.... spice to it, you know what i mean?

 

Yeah, I know what you mean. "Imaaaaagination" *putsarmsaboveheadfansthemoutmakingrainbow* gives anything some spice. And the movie only covers the first book-the other four are very different than the first. So it'd be in a different tone in the "books" of the comic like the books in the series. Any suggestions on keeping the tone consistent.

 

How could I expand upon the series like that?-I KNOW IMAGINATION ISN'T SOMETHING YOU ASK FOR, SO I WON'T USE IT, but I'd like to see an example what kind of thing you're talking about.

[jdor11 91]

okay well

keep the story in the same context

1.you have to explain things in the comic that is new to the story like when the narrator explain's that dolphin's were trying to warn the humans

2. you have to have the same smart ass hurmor they used in the movie (i actually sugesst you watch the first movie like from the 90 i think?)

3. you have to make sure that the character's have there own special personality

 

trillion: the adventure's women

author: the sometime's cynical, and cowardly brit...

you get the idea

[Sir Wafflington 21]

1.you have to explain things in the comic that is new to the story like when the narrator explain's that dolphin's were trying to warn the humans

Can you elaborate?

 

2. you have to have the same smart ass hurmor they used in the movie (i actually sugesst you watch the first movie like from the 90 i think?)

That smartass humor (as well as it's ironic humor, as well) is what made me fall in love with the series in the first place, so naturally I'm gonna keep that in there.

 

And are you talking about the BBC TV series from the 80's? I LOVE LOVE LOVE that one! It's so true to the books (the first two, anyways, those are the only ones it covered in it's first and only season-or technically series, since that's what they're called in Eutope) yet it also has it's own charm, as well!

 

3. you have to make sure that the character's have there own special personality

 

trillion: the adventure's women

author: the sometime's cynical, and cowardly brit...

you get the idea

 

I've never seen Arthur as cowardly, just a tea-deprived man who's stuck in space constantly trying to figure out what the hell is going on. And how'd you interpret Trillian as adventurous?

 

I have my MLP character to HHGTtG character interpretations in the first post. Do they seem fitting to you?

[jdor11 91]

for your first question look at this link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5mWQFGF7w8&feature=related

do the same thing they do with explaining what's going on ^

 

second i do like the characteristics you put on every pony so you just have to make sure they stick with those personalities

[Sir Wafflington 21]

for your first question look at this link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5mWQFGF7w8&feature=related

do the same thing they do with explaining what's going on ^

 

Oh yes, I always love those parts, along with the smartass and ironic humor, so it will also be there (how could I call it "The Hitchhiker's Guide to Friendship if it didn't contain excerpts from The Guide?). And so you WERE talking about the 80's BBC TV series. It's nice to see someone else who's seen it or even heard about it!

 

second i do like the characteristics you put on every pony so you just have to make sure they stick with those personalities

 

Any suggestions for the ones I missed?

[jdor11 91]

not really, but spike i feel his personality should be different then what you put him under, not clinically depressed but something...