[Actually, that's not quite true... I made this robot earlier. But this one's much bigger, and took longer due to it not being composed of straight lines.]
I love lineless art. There’s a reason I read Mac Hall and Holy Bibble. I’ve often thought about doing a lineless comic myself. Right now I’m planning on writing a graphic novel for my senior project, using a story that Nelson and I are developing right now. It would totally make my life if that project were lineless.
But now that I’ve tried it… How the hell do/did they manage to put out comic after comic? Lineless art takes for-flippin’-ever…even starting from a line sketch! Just this one drawing took several hours and seven layers. While I’m sure it gets faster the more that you do it, it seems like the amount of detail work that’s necessarily involved (getting the edges nice and smooth, making the shapes look right, getting the shadows to line up right) is prohibitive. And it doesn’t help that my tablet and/or GIMPshop runs slow.
Maybe I’ll just use this style for splash work, cover art, and whatnot?
So one thing I found while doing some of my idiotic cartoons is that if you put the lines in a separate layer in photoshop and whatnot, and then make the color layer really pretty, when you hide the line layer it looks really cool. And the lines and shapes match up because you’re doing it while looking at the lines, but not drawing in that layer.
I have no idea how they do it though. probably sneaky tricks. sneeeeeaky tricks.
Hi. I love lineless art too! Well, I love both. Sometimes, I’ll make the line art a shade or two darker than the fill so that it’s subtle and that looks equally nice. What do you run GimpShop on? GimpShop runs slow for me too. Although, I’m using a 4 year old eMac but Illustrator CS2 is very responsive so on it so, I don’t know. I don’t know how others work so fast either. It must be Photoshop. I do everything in Illustrator and get carried away with adding layers but it does take a long time even working around the clock.