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I am thinking about things I shouldn't be and should STILL be doing homework. That's going to become a theme these next four weeks.

Anyway.

How do you prefer your webcomics? Color? Black and white? Grayscale?

I don't see myself ever working with a publisher (partly because if I lose control of my own ideas then fuck that) but talking to normal people/other artists about this stuff seems like a good idea. So what I'm asking is, what kind of stuff do you people like to see in comics, in terms of presentation?

Granted, I'm a one-man army as far as all production and presentation goes, so I can only do so much before I get burnt out, and I think trying to do DNA in color the last two times I went for it is one of the MANY reasons why it didn't work out.

If I do the web version in black and white, the version in print will be full color. And there will be a print version. I don't want the web and print versions to be the same basic thing.

But uh.

Yeah.

Tell me things, or something.

Meanwhile, I must wash my hands.
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~AngelicDirt May 17, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Color is nice, but I'm usually reading for story and humor and such. Mebbe one color page a week, the rest in B&W or greyscale. Only 'cause I know color can be a pain... :B
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~TuxedoDemon May 17, 2012  Professional Digital Artist
I'm probably only going to be updating once a week at first, lol. Besides, every other page in color or something doesn't make a lot of sense, especially if that particular s--okay you seriously just gave me the best idea and I don't think you realize it thank you sldfjlk
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~AngelicDirt May 17, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Oh... that makes me feel ambitious... and then embarassed... then worried. :fear:
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=PatchKatz May 16, 2012  Hobbyist Writer
I don't really mind about the amount of colour in a comic... something I've seen sometimes, is that there are comics with some special frames painted, usually partially... dramatic stuff like blood, or glow-in-the-dark eyes, I dunno... just throwing an idea you might like d:
In the interest of an easier-to-update-regularly comic, I'd say you should go for BW or greyscale...
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~MeoAgcat May 16, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Black and white is nice, you can make the opening page a special color page if you want. Color the whole comic would be to tired for anyone. :D
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~Garou-Verroq May 16, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Well, personally, I do prefer color, as it tends to make it easier to see exactly what's going on, in my experience. However, if you feel you'd just get burnt out from doing color, then maybe make the color ones special, like the first few or last few pages of a chapter or something.

Also, maybe it's just the psyche-spectrum I'm thinking of, but isn't color something that gets referred to a little bit? I don't know, honestly. It's ultimately your decision, of course, but there's my thoughts.
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~TuxedoDemon May 16, 2012  Professional Digital Artist
Well, if color becomes a necessity, then I will find a way. =p Maybe I'll only color bits and pieces. Maybe speech text will be in color. Maybe speech text in color is a dumb idea why did I say that.

I don't like stories that start off in color personally; it's either do it the whole way through, or don't do it at all.

But no, color... takes too fucking long, and time spent coloring could be spent pushing the story along, or maybe even there'll be more time for more updates. I certainly don't want to be a year into the story and only have like, 52 pages online. That's not even through Chapter 1 yet.

Color IS very important to the X species in particular. I'll find a way to make it work.
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~Garou-Verroq May 16, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Would it look weird to just color the eyes and their psyche-abilities? I'm thinking that might make it like a film-Noir style where only red shows up, but it might be weird, I'm not sure.
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