What program do Gabe & Tycho use?

kelsith

Hey just one more thing i was wondering i know that the people who made penny arcade use a tablet pc or a pc tablet (I can never remember those) and i was also wondering what program they use for the drawing

redx

you might just want to ask/read up over in Artists Corner.

I'm pretty sure that a bunch of folks over there rock them. They had a bunch of stuff in the tutorial thread about them, but it looks like that was a few itertaions back cause the current on is down to 10 pages.

They are a bunch of hermits and tend to not veture out of thier little hole, but I doubt they would mind you asking over there and you're likely to get more of a response.

Thanatos

I changed your thread title to be more descriptive.

Drez

I posted this in the wrong thread somehow:


I thought they sketch it on paper, scan it, and color it using a Wacom tablet and Adobe Photoshop.

I could be wrong, but Gabe posted a videoblog of bringing one of his strips to fruition a few weeks ago and I believe that was his process

NOTE: I'm entirely unsure if that is the process they use all the time.

Bryse Eayo

Well he outlines(Ha!) it in his recent newspost.

Majority of the time he sketches something and then scans it, inks it with his tablet and then proceedes to colour it and add finishing touches.


Now what he was also talking about is how with the CTS comic he will chose to do soemthing differently. I believe he made note of the fact that he scanned his hand inked comics and then coloured them to give a more classic style.

But yesh most of the time Gabe sketches, scans, inks and colours in phototshop jusing a Wacom tablet. I forget if it's him or Hawk(From applegeeks) with the Cintiq tablet.

kelsith

well i know that gabe uses a tablet PC or a PC tablet im just confused if the hardware comes with a program or if they bought one and i want to know what software they use if they do indeed own one and example bieng adobe illustrator and or adobe photoshop CS2

Kewop Decam

they use photoshop. What they do isn't fancy at all and can be done in GIMP (which is free).

Now, the artist has this thing called "talent". You can't buy that. The only way I know to obtain this item is through lots of practice.

Tip: Draw from life, not cartoons.

World as Myth

Didn't Gabe use (or maybe he still uses) Alias SketchBook Pro? It treats sketch strokes with much more kindness than Photoshop or GIMP.

piL

I think Gabe did the comic in Photoshop, but was playing with with Sketchbook and talking about how cool it was when he was on the road. Back during 'Gabeart mark I' I beleive. I could be totally off my mark though.