In other news
I’m going to play copycat for awhile and just do the same as Krishna did recently in his blog.
Take a gander at the strip for today. It’s in color, as it always is. The problem is that I actually… kinda… almost… more or less… kiiiiinda think it looks better in black and white.
This is the same strip, in black and white:
When I started the strip I knew from the beginning that it would be in color. Every strip I read at the time was, and I saw no meaning in making it black and white since… well, hell; the screen can display millions of colors – if there’s anywhere a comic should be in color, it should be on the web, right?
But now, I almost feel like the color is detracting from the comic, rather then make it look better. In b&w, it reminds me of PvP (Yeah, I know. Nowhere NEAR that good. I said “REMINDS me”) and if I made it in b&w, I could focus more on making the artwork nicer and more fluid, with more different shoots and stuff. It’s harder now.
So I’m asking you guys, aka “my readers” – what do you think? Maybe you even think it looks better in color? Am I just talking nonsense? Maybe you hate me now? Maybe you think I’m ugly? Maybe you like tacos?
I would love some response on this.
And in other other news – Isaac got featured in a comic called “Finn-strip” made by our friendly neighbourhood Finn, Jarmo. 😀 Go check it out.
September 15th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Your color work is great. Putting the comic in black and white doesn’t take away from the humor though, and it doesn’t hinder the art at all. Go with what you’re more comfortable with. Maybe you can flip flop between colors and black and white depending on the situation.
September 15th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Thanks Birdie 🙂 So flip flop, eh? I like that.
September 15th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
Heh, I’ve been having similar thoughts about my own comic. I get it looking all nice, and then I feel like a 2 year-old with (digital) markers adding color for no reason.
I’m actually running a general “B&W vs. Color” poll at my site right now, and the results have favored color so far, so I think people like their color since “color’s free” on the Internet (when really, color files are generally larger than B&W files if you compress them right, meaning you use up more hosting space, and then there’s the fact that color-printing is expensive when you realize to be REALLY popular you need a book to sell, but still color’s “free”!)
Regarding your work specifically, I think your coloring style is wonderful, but maybe it’s the traditionalist in me, I do think the black and white version looks better overall.
Maybe like Birdie said, you could flip-flop, perhaps color for the main series, but do B&W when you break away for side jokes like this one?
September 15th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
Thanks for the input Danny. For what it’s worth, I think your strip looks great in color too. It really fits your style. 🙂
I guess I could atleast try to switch some between them both. I might do a quite long strip soon, which would take hours to color. So I could use those hours on the inkstage instead, and see what people think. But I guess just flat out stopping with color is out of the question.
September 16th, 2008 at 4:24 am
I say keep it in color! Do separate B & W bonus strips 🙂
September 16th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Krishna: “Bonus strips”? Sounds like unnecessary extra work to me! 😉
September 17th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
I vote for color!
September 17th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Then color it is, Robin! ^^