Manga Studio + Google SketchUp = Happy Comic Artist — 4
I couldn’t’ have said enough how much this is making my life much easier. Background is a bane of my comic artist life’s existence. Looking at some of my works, you might think that I LURVES drawing background, but the fact is polar opposite. I HATE it, I loath it but I can’t skip it and I can’t stand doing sloppy jobs on it. (that’s why I got incredibly mad when I saw other professional comics with sloppy backgrounds) If I had assistance to draw me a background (amongst everything else) like japanese mangaka, I reckon even I could do 15 pages weekly too.
Enter Google SketchUp, description from Google itself reads:
Google SketchUp is a powerful yet easy-to-learn 3D software tool that combines a simple, yet robust tool-set with an intelligent drawing system that streamlines and simplifies 3D design.
basically, what you do is, you draw flat square with normal drawing tool, then you use this ‘push/pull’ tool to pull on the surface of that square up to make a cube, and lo and behold, you just creatd a 3D box!
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I’ve been working on this comic for awhile, going pretty slow, slower than I’d have liked. I aim to finish this before the end of november, but now, I’m not sure if I could. 




