Reply With QuoteI buy blank boards, and have a template frame that the size of a comic page's active area. I just trace around it in blue line before I start drawing, it only takes a few seconds.
So I was looking around at the different boards out there. The one thing I notice with all the companies is that no one says what lb'age paper they use.
Strathmore 500 Series..nope
Blueline....nope
Eon....nope
Why doesn't anyone post this information. Is there a magic number that should be used? 130lb?
How does this compare to Mohawk Cover 130 lb?
I checked. The paper is not expensive at all. Ive seen recommended paper @ 250 sheet reams for <$100 and Im talking about quality stuff not 100 and 300 series strathmore (mohawk)
Also to those that buy blank boards, do you do it yourself of go to printing services that will do the lining for you.
Last edited by Walril; 09-12-2011 at 01:04 PM. Reason: Found out that 130lb is optimal
I buy blank boards, and have a template frame that the size of a comic page's active area. I just trace around it in blue line before I start drawing, it only takes a few seconds.
it’s as if he figured that sheer repetition would wear them down, forcing them to submit to his strange, incompetent genius.
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I use Eon, because I like the quality of what I'm getting and their prelined boards save me time when I'm in the studio. Simple as that.
I use whatever is cheap. I bought 2 years worth of comic paper for less than 10 bucks.
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It ain't like it's hard to rule out a dang 10x15 space with triangle and T-square. Heck, get fancy and add points at 1/2 to 3/4 of an inch from the corners as you do it, and then connect the dots for the safety.
Or, as Solace suggests, have a piece of matte board or similar with a 10x15 open area, and just run the dang pencil around the inside.
Or...just use pre-lined Eon boards, like I do. Even my graham crackers have little perforations so that I can break them into perfect rectangles. I don't like to work too hard.
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They ship securely? Meaning I wont be getting a bunch of boards with bent corners etc?
...cut their own paper to size and manually DRAW the borders! 'Nuff said!
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It's not that it's hard to line boards-- it's that it takes time out of my workday I don't want taken.
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One thing I do hate, and have never understood, is why artists in this industry, when doing a two page spread... use two separate boards to produce the artwork. Never understood the purpose of one piece of artwork being drawn on two separate sheets of paper.
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