Welcome back to me! Its been a very busy month and this strip being up, pretty much back to drawing “par”, and on time means that I’m back from vacation! We had a great time the week before this one, in CA, with my whole family. I hope you have gotten a chance to get out and do stuff you don’t normally get to do also.
Back to Outnumbered, hopefully you’ll remember the storyline we’ve been on for the last few strips (ignoring last weeks “stand in”). Remember Megan’s purple hair? Cougar, her new boyfriend? Hit the back arrows under today’s strip if you need to get refreshed. I have the next 4 or 5 strips written already, which is rarely the case. I’ve enjoyed looking at this batch of strips as a story arc with little gags along the way. I hope you do too. My ultimate goal is to explore the characters a bit more. Megan might not be the only one in the family that thinks they need a change!
On the artistic side, even though this is about my 40th strip, I’m still playing with drawing techniques for this strip. This one, like last weeks, is done in pencil (with Photoshop word balloons, lettering, and tones). Its the way I started doing these way back when (if you look at the first 5 or so strips from last Jan.). I’m not sure I’ll stay with it, but I do enjoy the looseness and they do go a little quicker, I think. Let me know what you think of today’s strip in the comments. Better yet, if you like it, share it on your social networks. I’d love to grow this little community of Outnumbered readers! Don’t you want more friends?
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Thanks for catching that. I fixed it now.
yep… loosing hair…
Glad your back always look forward to Monday!!! TTYL
Thanks Larry and Rick!~
What Larry said…Absolutely!!!
That is a very expensive boyfriend.
I do dig Meg’s new hairdo! The taste in boyfriends could use some work though, haha.
I really like how the pencil/photoshop combo looks! I remember you using it in the earlier strips, and it looks great on a computer screen – which is how this comic is viewed primarily, so no losses there.
I’ve always preferred the texture that pencil gives, even over hand-inked stuff, and Photoshop is so great for polishing and adding to hand-drawn illustrations. Have you seen Tracy Butler’s comic Lackadaisy? It’s all drawn in pencil and then toned in Photoshop (she makes it look super-painterly) She made a how-to about it, which is SO PRETTY –
(Excuse me for the geek-out. I just love penciled comics.) 🙂
Thanks for all that great info, Lauren. I’m glad you are liking Meg’s hair, though it might be temporary. I have met Tracy Butler at SDCC a few years ago and bought her Lackadaisy trade she had out. Honestly, its some of the nicest comic art I’ve seen in a long time. She’s only gotten better also. She’s my hero.