Well, let me get this out of the way…250 strips! Thanks to all of you, because it wouldn’t have gotten this far otherwise. There, I said it. Now get outta here.
A couple of references. Night Terrors, Ma’am is from the Simpsons episode where Bart and Homer are handcuffed together by court order, and “There, I said it. Now get outta here” is from one of those 80s Garfield specials. Christmas, I think, though it’s probably from more than one. You might wonder why I still remember that. Like I’ve said in the past, I am a huge Garfield fan.
This joke took some working out, but I’m happy with the results. Best part is, the idea was pretty much given to me! No muss, no fuss!
the big news for this strip is I have changed the way I do my shading. I had the brilliant idea a while ago to create a layer, set its transparency to 15% and shade with a 100% black brush. The idea was that I reduced the saturation on my colors by 15% (usually) to do a general shade, and this should have the same effect in most cases. Well, it does, but somewhere along the way I lost the idea and desaturated each color individually. This new method shouldn’t change the shading you see, but it’s a heck of a lot quicker than constantly changing colors and panning back and forth, so it will give me more time to mess around with new techniques. That should mean an improvement in general over the next few weeks. Stay tuned.
