Oh and I’ve much enjoyed this instalment, I was sad to find it had gone to one day a week but your blog makes everything understandable so I can’t complain. I just wish I could give you the answers that would ease your burdens.

I’ll keep digging through the universes until one of them crops up with another you that found the answers and I’ll let you know what they were.

Unfortunately, I’m not a big fan of the stencil or copy + paste method. There are plenty of comics out there that do it well (Help Desk, Scary-Go-Round before it’s current incarnation), but there’s also plenty that do it horribly. I never thought it would work for GPF outside of a few special cases where I use it for emphasis (like here or here). Still, one does what one has to save time….

One last problem I’m having with going all digital is the disconnect between looking up at the screen while the hand is drawing on the tablet. I’m getting better at it, and I think the two all-digital “bikini” pics from last month are a fine example of that. But I’ve still got a long way to go. I’ll probably at least finish TTOS the traditional way, then I might try experimenting with new methods as soon as the next GPF “year” beings.

I’ve figured that inkscape with two documents open, your panels and a “stencil” document where you basically create the art works in vector images and then any parts which can be re-used are put into the stencil document for later. you can then copy+paste from stencil into a new document and make tweaks as required to the lines to suite different perspectives etc.

This is nice because inkscape is free and I can guarantee there’s a version for what ever operating system you happen to do your work on.