Genoworks Saga: Cyantian Tales

Just a note that I have like… half a dozen pages inked.  Followed by an explanation.

When I began this comic, I was using a program called Deleter’s Comicworks.  It’s a great little program, but it lacked good function in small things… I switched to Manga Studio… which is absolutely awesome and blows Comicworks out of the water.  During the switch, I had to do the time consuming job of matching up the tones.. which were named differently and some non existent.. so I uploaded all of the tones to Manga studio that were in Comicworks… it took a long time.

THEN, I started learning Manga Studio as I did Genoworks Saga.  I believe I only managed a few pages before I realized I was really making a lot of crazy extra work for myself with excessive toning.   (Noted by notes in a Fullmetal Alchemist graphic novel of the artist pointing out his own overuse of tone in a panel.)  I did one of those anime jaw drops with round white eyes.

Then… I sat around and mulled over:  Wow… do I change it even more… it’s changed so much in just what I’ve updated due to just not being able to match the tones page to page… but… the tones change page to page in manga as well.   ARgh.. I should’ve done all this in black and white only… that went through my head a lot.

THEN, there’s the printing… when you reduce some dots, they do moire patterns.. which are hideous, if you reduce them in photoshop.  I know now how to avoid that.. but that was another delay.

So, now.. my only excuse is.. uhh… Manga Studio CRASHED and wouldn’t install again or open, so I had to get replacement disks.   Then I was afraid to use it because it started having weird bugs!  I’m still afraid to use anything but page mode… because it would wipe out hours of work at a time. :/

And now.. months and months later, I think I’m going to open Manga Studio again and limit myself to only one or two tones per panel, if that.  So look for it to start updating in September.