These are my favourite comic fonts used at the moment on my comics and illustration site mindvomit.co.uk. I thought this list of free comic fonts may be handy for fellow illustrators / designers and comic artistes.
Here are my favourites and links to where you can download them for free: Read more
I had high hopes for the Wacom Inkling, of course I was dubious that it would accurately convert my drawings into a digital form just by using a sensor and special pen but the demo and marketing of the product looked so damn good and Wacom have a great reputation for their graphic tablets. Before I begin I will say that I read all the tips on how to use the inkling, tried different settings and even different types of paper.
As you can see above, the results speak for themselves. Okay, it doesn’t look aweful but there are many descrapancies between the original drawing and the inkling version mainly in the form of lines being in the wrong position. As I draw comics, the accuracy of the lines is pretty crucial, so really even minor differences can be quite bad.
But it gets worse: Read more
For the last seven months I have been creating comics and publishing them on my tumblr blog – mindvomit.co.uk. In my first month I received around 240 unique visitors and in my last month (November 2011) I received 58,828, a 24411% increase in traffic! However, this was mainly due my Narwhal – The Baddest Mother F*cker in the Ocean post that was unusually popular, generating 56,015 unique visits. If we take an average month like October – the percentage increase in traffic is 174%, which I think is still pretty good. Read more
Of late I’ve been posting a weekly comic to my tumblr blog. I’m fairly new to tumblr and have been trying to get to grips with various tactics to help the success of posts in gaining tumblr likes and reblogs etc so I thought I would share my learning thus far: Read more
When a post gets shared or ‘liked’ on Facebook you want it to have the best possible chance of getting noticed and more people to ‘like’ it for the viral explosion that everyone dreams of! You want the news item on Facebook to have a nice thumbnail, sadly Facebook doesn’t always pick up the right picture, so adding some meta content to the head of your tumblr theme allows you to set either your profile picture or photo post as the thumbnail.
On tumblr, it’s really simple, just customise your theme, go to the theme tab and add some custom HTML. Where you see all the tags, add the following code above or below: Read more
While I’m working on my new site I wanted to display a gallery but exclude the featured image / post thumbnail from gallery because this would be a custom thumbnail size and would look rubbish in the gallery.
In wordpress you can pass attachment IDs of any image you want to exclude from the gallery. So all you have to do is get the ID of the post thumbnail ala:
< ?php echo do_shortcode('[gallery size="full size" exclude="' . get_post_thumbnail_id( $post->ID ) . '"]'); ?>
While working on my portfolio I once again became sidetracked by pattern creation. I have created a seamless, repeating pattern in Illustrator with six colour variations. Read more
It’s always nice to welcome people onto the site with a lovingly crafted greeting. Above will be incorporated into my new design. It’s a little bit of an overkill but with some masking out of certain areas I have found it works okay and gives the initial impact of the site the unique and individualistic feel that I want.
