Doing stuff digitally. It's all the rage now I hear. You don't need to go near a real piece of paper and that ink stuff, it's terribly messy. The kids say it's the future but what do they know? They like watching Skins.

Well, the thing is that until recently, although I'd been more than happy to colour 'till the cows come home on the screen, drawing and inking just hasn't come quite as easily. I've tried inking in Photoshop, Painter and even Illustrator and, although that was better it still didn't come anywhere near the feel and flexibility I got with using a brush. That was until I found Manga Studio. 

Hot dang! The pressure and quality of the line really does feel (well, to me at least) and look right. So I'm convinced. It's speeded me up and I'm getting the results I want. Well, apart from it not making me actually draw better. Only cups of tea and biscuits can do that.

Here's a page from my Pulsar Crash strip from the new Smart Bomb. Multiple layers also let me do colour holds really easily so if you see some lines overlapping, that's what's happening there.

So, Manga Studio. I never thought I'd love a program, that wasn't by Adobe, so much. I'm not going to sully its name by moaning about how complicated it all got once I tried to go past just sketching and inking because that would make me weep and not like it so much so I'll just leave things here.