Local Girl’s day in pictures

15 Comments

1. Burns!
   Posted April 7, 2008 at 3:10 am | Permalink

   Whoa! You always look so cute in your comics, but based on that first one of you ranting about the chain I think most everyone would do well not to piss you off. I was a little scared.

2. Ricky
   Posted April 7, 2008 at 10:23 am | Permalink

   Can’t you just make a strip on the wacom?

   (not that I think you necessarily should - I actually prefer the freeform style).

3. local girl
   Posted April 7, 2008 at 10:42 am | Permalink

   Weirdly that is a really hard thing to do. You need to be more precise with a strip. i guess I could pencil it then wacom over it - but it’s just nice to draw with real ink now and again.

4. Bobby
   Posted April 7, 2008 at 12:24 pm | Permalink

   what materials do you use when drawing a strip?
   is that a silly question?

5. local girl
   Posted April 7, 2008 at 1:37 pm | Permalink

   I **LOVE** talking about artist materials!

   I vary what I use sometimes, like I went through a dip-pen phase, then a vintage fountain pen one (I blame dick http://pens.h099.com/). But these days I pencil with an H4 retracable pencil (I use a way hard one cause the scanner doesn’t show it up & you don’t have to rub it out if you put the contrast up slightly. I used no repro blue leads for a while but they break so easily). THEN I use a set of Faber Castell Pitt drawing pens. Any drawing pen is fine but pitt’s are really inky and almost brush like. I letter with Stylo liquid fountains just for the variation but they are pretty Boowsheet (bullshit) & run out like now. Pilot V Sign pens are the tits for any thick blackness. I also use a Staedler 0.05 for some neat Tom Gould rip off style shading & coloring. But I could probably get the same effect with a bic.

6. Bobby
   Posted April 7, 2008 at 2:13 pm | Permalink

   ahhh.. thank you so much for your answer and generosity!
   you rule!

7. KO
   Posted April 7, 2008 at 2:36 pm | Permalink

   In the world wide web net, you should not have to conform to the good ol’ boy 3 panel standard. The one reason I like reading your blog-style strip (and the thing that the internet lends itself so nicely to) is the scroll-down reveal. I never know exactly what awaits at the end of the strip.
   With the three panel ho-hum style I can see it all before I read it.

8. local girl
   Posted April 7, 2008 at 3:38 pm | Permalink

   [edit] If I did ever think of a great million dollar making 3 panel strip I would still carry on doing this. I just thought it would be interesting to see if I could do it, and that is after all what I started off doing

9. Joe Decie
   Posted April 7, 2008 at 4:11 pm | Permalink

   What is it with the good people of Hackney and Bicycles? It’s all I hear about…’fixed gear’ this and ‘road bike’ that. One of my friends even posts pictures of his bikes on internet forums.

   I could never live in Hackney; I never did my cycling proficiency.

10. local girl
    Posted April 7, 2008 at 4:43 pm | Permalink

    Basically, fixed gear cycling is trendy (potentially) cheap, environmentally friendly and above all else customisable.

    This article pretty much sums it up:
    http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/61-bicycles/

11. Dick
    Posted April 7, 2008 at 10:07 pm | Permalink

    Thanks for the plug. We passed each other again this morning. I didn’t shout at you this time but I saw your new frame. Sweet.

12. El
    Posted April 8, 2008 at 8:04 am | Permalink

    When you can find your WACOM pen, do you skip all the inking and scanning and just draw directly into — what? — Photoshop? Have to say I like the scroll-down reveal too (it’s funnier AND webbier) and I love your free-form drawing style. I disagree with Burns though. I think everyone’s goal should be to piss you off because the angrier you get the funnier you are. You are my new favorite website. Highly original, very charming and VERY funny.

    El
    Seattle

    PS (((Faber Castell PITT pens))) Indestructible inky ink + lefty-friendly.

13. local girl
    Posted April 8, 2008 at 8:57 am | Permalink

    I draw straight into Flash smooths out all the lines & junk, also means everything is a vector so no quality loss.

14. Dick
    Posted April 9, 2008 at 5:15 pm | Permalink

    Dude you want to get freehand. Its what all the pros use

15. local girl
    Posted April 9, 2008 at 11:50 pm | Permalink

    I just downloaded it and am using it. I hate it when you look in a help file and it said ‘Go to the brush dialog’ and you’re thinking - I can’t find the brush dialog. Yes but it does look bloody awesome. Can’t import my pallets from flash - they are both macromedia products! This is an outrage!