Here in the West

[laura_seabrook]

I finally got around to converting the episode of Here in the West I did years ago. Here in the West was originally drawn by Carol Wood, and I swapped her the rights to The Spanish Maid for it. The artwork on this was drawn back about 1991, so it's all 16 year old stuff. The script (like all HITW scripts) was written by Ian Scudamore. Haven't spoken to Ian in years, though there's exactly one I. Scudamore in the Perth White Pages.

I took the opportunity to use Photoshop. For years I've used Paint Shop Pro as my main graphics editor. Partly this was because my hardware  just didn't seem to support the latest versions, but it does now. That's one reason every thing's a little rough. I was trying to get a particular mood and I think the colouring achieves that, even if it does look a bit garish sometimes.

Was almost tempted to use the GIMP as there's a new version (GIMP 2.4) out that has resizable brushes in it, but I found the interface as alien as it ever was.

Comments

[rashelleym.livejournal.com]

To continue using a computer, I personally seem to need to absolutely distinguish between applications (like GIMP itself), scripts (which "act out" functionality), and GUI (the Graphical User Interface, the "visual mousing experience" that our owners' Apple and Microsoft together enshrined as "windows"). So, it may be masochistic, but I rather enjoy "alien interfaces".

So... looking at the fourth panel of the second(?) page, and suddenly asking myself (yet again) how cool would it be, if someone (other than me) were to narratize published comics, being sure to comment along the way about incidental and minor visual features as if part of the narrative rather than the scripted and visualized story?

It's been done, I'm sure. Or maybe not... quite doable (meaning "within my own range hence fantastically easy for a huge number of people") and yet I've never seen anything more than slightly resembling it. Post an example in a bit, possibly--around ancient Mary Worth and Dilbert, if I can find them. I've only ever "done it" in relation to four panel strips, though. (Odd, that copyediting has never been an option for me: don't quite know why--or at least I'm not saying in a public comment.)

[laura-seabrook.livejournal.com]

I shall be interested in seeing this.

[cyclops25503.livejournal.com]

Yes, GIMP does have a strange interface...its a great program, when any of my customers need to do anything with image editing, its always the program i reccommend...but its just got one hell of a weird interface :P