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Drew Hardest



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PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 7:43 am Reply with quoteBack to top

so you guys gonna base a character on me you know you want to amirite
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 8:24 am Reply with quoteBack to top

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 8:37 am Reply with quoteBack to top

Zero I like your dude and all but I can't help but think he is too detailed for this? Just my two cents, see if anyone else agrees.

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 1:45 pm Reply with quoteBack to top

Not crazy about colouring the font because it looks pretty bad in B&W.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 5:11 pm Reply with quoteBack to top

MILES GROVER

I am not married to this font at all, and in fact, I don't even like it that much, basically I was just looking through my fonts for something I hadn't used in a comic before and that's what I pulled out. I didn't even intend for it to stick, it was pretty much a placeholder.

I'd be willing to do a more traditional comic font, but I would really prefer something more understated than Sunday Comics or Ashcan.

But of course, you and I both know that you selected those two because they were the only two passable freebies on Blambot that had lowercase, so I guess we are going to have to look elsewhere?

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Miles
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 5:22 pm Reply with quoteBack to top

Haha yeah, pretty much. I wouldn't be opposed to buying a font, in theory, but most likely even if we did that we wouldn't legally be allowed to all use it. We'd have to pay for each copy, so that's basically not going to work.

Maybe what we need is just a nice hand-written looking font, rather than a "comic" font per se. I'll see what I can find.

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 5:30 pm Reply with quoteBack to top

I'm looking too! Maybe we will find something TOGETHER

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 5:35 pm Reply with quoteBack to top

Oh, for my sake, try to get something that comes with at least regular and italic built in.

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Miles
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 5:53 pm Reply with quoteBack to top

Real italics and bolds are hard to find on free fonts. Heck it's hard enough to find ones with decent quote characters. Here are a couple I found that didn't have any necessary characters missing:

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 5:59 pm Reply with quoteBack to top

Wait why isn't this comic just gonna be in Verdana

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 5:59 pm Reply with quoteBack to top

Basically the problem is that free programs don't exactly do fake italics very well, but understood.

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 6:04 pm Reply with quoteBack to top

I like Augie because it has the necessary characters needed to write in Swedish Cool
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 6:29 pm Reply with quoteBack to top

Look Atom the BnW thing wasn't my idea okay so you can just get off my back about that.

Tyler I'm going to draw up a less detailed one right now.

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 6:30 pm Reply with quoteBack to top

Verdana is a font intended to work well at small sizes not anti-aliased, like on a webpage. For that, it's certainly an OK font. But it's not nice enough nor particularly appropriate for speech bubble text, so why would we use it? There are tons of better choices.

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 6:35 pm Reply with quoteBack to top

Miles wrote:
There are tons of better choices.


youve done a great job finding those superior choices

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 6:37 pm Reply with quoteBack to top

ysqure are you fuckin serious

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 6:38 pm Reply with quoteBack to top

No.

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 6:43 pm Reply with quoteBack to top

last warning bro i'm actually ryan please comply with forum rules

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 6:51 pm Reply with quoteBack to top

Okay.

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 7:02 pm Reply with quoteBack to top

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 7:28 pm Reply with quoteBack to top

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 7:29 pm Reply with quoteBack to top

I FORGOT TO ADD THE STRINGS but it was just a test to show you how the lo-fi puppet looked.

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 7:31 pm Reply with quoteBack to top

zerothian wrote:
Look Atom the BnW thing wasn't my idea okay so you can just get off my back about that.


I know just saying if you don't use blue text in the first place it won't look bad.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 7:34 pm Reply with quoteBack to top

I'm just saying that practically any font is a better choice than Verdana in this case.

Anyway, here are some different eyes and mouths for the ghost guy I'm working on.

Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Image Image

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 7:36 pm Reply with quoteBack to top

More poses and a name/backstory forthcoming.

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zerothian wrote:
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 7:36 pm Reply with quoteBack to top

What if instead of a ghost, he was a sack of flour?
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 7:37 pm Reply with quoteBack to top

Maybe he's the ghost of a sack of flour.

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 7:38 pm Reply with quoteBack to top

See, now we're getting somewhere
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 7:44 pm Reply with quoteBack to top

That ghost is bad-ass <3

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