My current process for doing CG strips is to draw the strip in pencil and make a scan of the pencil drawing. Then I edit it in GIMP, creating a new layer to digitally ink over my pencil lines. That way, it's easy to go back a layer and erase anything I don't want while still having the option of keeping some of my penciled structure.
I had completed that phase, which takes the longest, and was about 1/3 into adding the text (I use a font based on my own writing). All of sudden GIMP locked up, and nothing I did would unlock it. And of course, I realized to my horror that I had not been saving at every step, as I should. Fortunately, the digital inking had all been saved, but the clean-up step had not. I had no choice but to force GIMP to shut down, and when I restarted it and opened my image, I no longer had layers, which made cleaning up the pencil lines (and pencil schmutz) much more arduous.
Aargh! Frustrating! Just when I think I've thoroughly absorbed the old "save early and often" lesson.
The contract that Crazy Guy cites really did exist--my husband had come across it while studying contract law. :)
I had completed that phase, which takes the longest, and was about 1/3 into adding the text (I use a font based on my own writing). All of sudden GIMP locked up, and nothing I did would unlock it. And of course, I realized to my horror that I had not been saving at every step, as I should. Fortunately, the digital inking had all been saved, but the clean-up step had not. I had no choice but to force GIMP to shut down, and when I restarted it and opened my image, I no longer had layers, which made cleaning up the pencil lines (and pencil schmutz) much more arduous.
Aargh! Frustrating! Just when I think I've thoroughly absorbed the old "save early and often" lesson.
The contract that Crazy Guy cites really did exist--my husband had come across it while studying contract law. :)
Ouch. I've been there.
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