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So I kinda want to make a comic

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My head is right now swarming with ideas for a fanfic, but I feel that I won't have enough patience to write down the whole thing with detailed descriptions of landscapes, fights etc. So I want to try and make all my thoughts into a comic. The question is: what programme should I use? I'd rather it had a relatively easy interface - 'cause I'm a complete dunderhead when it comes to computer programmes with too many buttons - and a set of instruments for vector drawing, like in Word. The only programme I am using now is Corel Photopaint, and the only thing it seems to be suited for is adding fancy effects to existing images, not creating new ones. I used to have Adobe Photoshop, but it was a trial version which expired ages ago, and I have already forgotten how to work with it. Perhaps I should reinstall it? Also, I seem to be hearing a lot about Inkscape lately. Perhaps it will suit my needs? I will be thankful for any suggestions.
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www.inkscape.org

It is a brilliant vector-based program, and it should suit your needs if your style is simple. I, personally, love it a load. It's sort of like typing: takes a while to get up to speed and learn the keyboard layout but once you've done it enough you can get 65 words a minute.
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Of course you don't like it enough to finish super hero comic about velocity guy
Post it here when you finish it Norroen.i want to read something else as the things I'm reading haven't been updated in a while
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Acshually I finished that it's just it turned into my GCSE IT project and I don't want to post it all online in case they accuse me of burglarising it.
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well now that it's done,can you put it up?or pm it to me?
back on topic,what is the comic about Norroen?
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Re: So I kinda want to make a comic

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Dogmantra wrote:http://www.inkscape.org

It is a brilliant vector-based program, and it should suit your needs if your style is simple. I, personally, love it a load. It's sort of like typing: takes a while to get up to speed and learn the keyboard layout but once you've done it enough you can get 65 words a minute.
Thank you for the link. I have downloaded the exe file, but as I click it a sort of error occurs - a small window pops up with a message about an incompetent publisher :shock: Would you perhaps happen to know what seems to be the problem?
Generalno1, thank you for taking interest :oops: As I am now having problems with the exe file, there is no comic to talk about yet :D All I can say is - it's gonna be about... yeah, about Oblivion. I know I am not creative. But it's just a sort of mood of mine :oops:

(A couple of weeks later)

Actually, I have solved all the problems I had with Inkscape and it now works like a charm. Here is the first strip of the comic I intend to make. The main characters are three merry Mages Guild Apprentices: Gar gra-Bolg, who is an Orc and strives to prove that she can be a Mage, too; Hudrun, who is a Nord and posssesses the most kick-ass Mum in all Cyrodiil
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(the Champion, actually)
; and Vivienne, who is half-Dunmer, half-Breton and has very tense relationships with her ancestors. In this strip, pretty much nothing happens, as it is a sort of introduction. I am going to develop the storyline at the next free weekend I have. I already have it planned to some extent:
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the girls "scram", go to bed and then wake up to see Kvatch overrun by the Daedra.
This is my first attempt to work with Inkscape, and I guess it is rather pathetic, but I think that I am gradually getting the hang of it.
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I will be glad to hear your opnion. Yes, I AM asking for compliments!
Yes, I know it's double-posting, but I wanted to revive this thread a bit :D
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If you add things by edit t doesn't show up as a new post so i didn't notice.and can you re size it please,i can't see it clearly
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It looks good, but I can't see the text. You might want to resize it.
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The Raven wrote:It looks good, but I can't see the text. You might want to resize it.
All done :D
Here is a link to the original, it should be readable this way :D
http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/6/ksusch ... 45b75_orig
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Looks good. Probably better than I could do after just a couple weeks on Inkscape. So, how did you do the dialogue balloons?
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Hehe nice.get the next one ready soon
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Cactus wrote:Looks good. Probably better than I could do after just a couple weeks on Inkscape. So, how did you do the dialogue balloons?
Thanks :oops: A circle plus a curved line - I don't know how to call it exactly, 'cause I have my interface in Russian. I should have figured out that it is really simple ages ago :D
Generalno1 wrote:Hehe nice.get the next one ready soon

Thank you :oops: I will get down to it as soon as I am done with all my uhm... academic work :D
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I wrote a comic, once.
It was about a wealthy Britishman that spent his time defecating in various pubs around Manchester.
Needless to say, it didn't go over well with the local newspaper.
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Uhh, that's me again. I feel that I have completely lost interest. Did half the second strip, right up to the heroines woke up and found a bunch of Daedra demolishing the unfriendly Bosmer's house, and then I put it aside. Like, forver. Now I am nursing another idea for a fanfiction, but I know it won't last long. I will chuck it aside and switch to something else. What's up with my freakin' brain?! I have never been able to wtite or draw any story further than the second chapter. The only exception is a kids' fantasy novel which I got going pretty well, but then the PDA with the text was stolen. I know that because of my carelessness I will never make a decent writer, but the thing that sucks most is that I can't give up inventing plots. I guess this thread was pretty pointless and should be blocked or deleted or something.
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*deep sigh*
*bangs head against the wall*
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I'm sorry :cry:
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