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Originally posted July 27, 2004: 3 for 3 for on-time postings! Welcome to my photo-driven webcomic attempt. Updates can be expected on a MWF schedule, starting in August, which means next week- gulp! Wish me luck! chris@gettingby.net

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About d0003, “Qualifications”

Identifiable People credits: Chris Fisher and Stephen Hayward.

This strip only took about 6-8 hours to put together, mostly because I’d already fiddled with the background for d0002.  In most forms of non-digital art, it’s easier to add color on top of a pre-existing layer of paint, but I’m learning that it’s easier to remove colors in PE 2.0 in order to lighten objects.  Skin tones are really not fun to alter.  In a completely failed attempt to get a more manga-style look, I tried to blow up the eyes and paste them over the picture, then blend the edges of the somehow no longer matching skin tones.  The result was so raccoon-like that I didn’t even save it.

At this point, I started time taking random pictures of objects and had started scanning in the first of many boxes of my photo collection.  My digital camera, Chibi-san, now lives in my bag, going with me everywhere.  Chibi-san, FYI, is my Canon Powershot A300.  His family includes my 2 Nikons, Big Sister (N65 AF) and Little Brother (my all manual who serves as backup these days).