Very Big Thanks!

Raymond S. McCune

HBRILLIANT!

webkilla

Auction off zombie cameos for the halloween shooting spree. Easiest way to fit truly one-shot characters into the comic

Polar_Bear

*tosses another order on the pile* Got all the books so far, with as many of them with sketches as can be. Can't wait for the next set. ^_^

Doc Nickel

There's all sorts of 'snobs'- like the classics, Mac vs. PC, Ford vs. Chevy, Coke vs. Pepsi, and of course all the hipster music. ("I only listen to bands no one's ever heard of", etc.) And, of course, being a gearhead and machinist, there's also tool snobs- MAC, Proto, Snap-On, etc. for hand tools, and Bridgeport, Monarch and Hardinge for machine tools. (Or Okuma and Fadal for the fancy stuff. :) Personally, I don't truck with that kind of thing. I have my *preferences*, sure, just like everyone else does, and I have the things I'll recommend to a newbie if they ask, but it's not like I'm gonna tell somebody off just because he's trying to use an Asian-import lathe, Husky wrenches and a flip-phone. The art stuff is the same way. Yes, I'm often astounded at what people can create with $100 brushes, $50-a-tube oils and $300 canvases, but I've also been astounded at what people have created with ballpoint pens, a pocket knife or a cheap hobby-store wood-burning kit. The skill of the user has far more to do with it than the quality of the tool.

McClaw

So do Roger and Jinx on either side of her. Notice where each of them is looking?

Raymond S. McCune

Doc, ever thought of making a price list for Patreon cameos and odd ideas for the TWB as filler material when you go away for vacation or something comes up? Like $25 for a non exclusive, non action, non speaking single frame background character of our choice (Dog cat hermit of some type). $50 for two frames, 150 for three frames, etc. You get the idea. And have a twice yearly appearence auction. Whoever bids the most ($250) minimum. Receives a dedicated strip with a cameo to be done at your discretion but with some input. A chunk of the auction goes to keep TWB in the black and a chunk goes to a charity. The leftover goes to Doc's Moutain Dew Fund.

Trygve Henriksen

I should probably have added a smiley or something after my message,,, ;-) I learned about them over at the Reapermini forums where some were using them for lining(pretty much the same as inking a drawing, really, just on a 3D media.) Art snob? I got he Blackest Black(Black 3.0 from Culture Hustle), the Pinkest Pink, oh, and probably close to 300 bottles of miniature paint. The only part of my artistic endeavors that I'm a snob is in brushes. it has to be Rosemary & Co, Series 33. But they are probably not expensive enough for the real snobs...

Doc Nickel

That's exactly it. When I print out a PayPal invoice, there's usually either two or three pages. And the last page is always nearly blank, usually just with that last line of disclaimer at the bottom of the page or something. I've rarely ever used anything but straight printer paper to draw the comic on- I tried fancier stuff at times, but all it really did for me was cost more. So at some point I started saving the 'waste' paper and using it for both shop scratch-pad paper and drawing the comic on.

Doc Nickel

They are. They're perfectly acceptable, if you're not an art snob. :) I just keep running across too many snobs who brag about the fancy $20-each pens they have imported from some obscure supplier in Japan or Guadalahara or something, heavily implying that if you don't use that kind of pen- or better- well, then you're just scribbling on a bathroom wall. It's not "real" art. :D

"used" paper? So it got an invoice printed on the backside or something? :)

Cult of Dust

Pirta knows how to appeal to a demographic.

Trygve Henriksen

B.. but... I thought Micron pens were the good stuff? (I may have a dozen or so of them... Blacks in different sized, some red, blue, green and purples... )