tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67641931697070510612024-02-19T19:00:38.757+11:00Art Blog By Vince<b>The Blog about the cartoons and caricatures of Tasmanian based artist Vince Steele. All artwork © copyright Vince Steele, creator of <a href="http://www.bushcampcomics.com/">Bushcamp Comics</a>.</b>Vince Steelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15852291110577459994noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6764193169707051061.post-82912941802188629492017-12-09T15:15:00.000+11:002019-11-12T13:07:45.429+11:00When cartoonists collide.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Part 1: 26 November 2017 to 18 January 2018</b><br />
A strange thing has begun on the <a href="http://cartoonists.org.au/" target="_blank">Australian Cartoonists' Association</a>'s public <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/australiancartoonists/" target="_blank">Facebook page</a>. A series of strips and panels have started to surface, written and drawn by various cartoonists and all intertwined with each other.<br />
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In an attempt to try and keep some sort of record I'll be updating this blog page as new entries appear. They may or may not be shown in chronological order of when they were originally posted on Facebook though. The reason for this is to try and get them all to blend in seamlessly with a running dialogue.<br />
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So grab yourself something comfortable to drink, you may need it, as we present the Australian Cartoonists' Association's (and other possibly rogue cartoonists') saga of....<br />
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The Wrath of Peter Player's Fishman!!!</h2>
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Our story begins in the nether regions of November 2017 when Freelance cartoonist Peter Player shocks the world by scoring a gong at the 33rd annual Stan Cross Awards, also known as The Stanleys, at Old Parliament House in Canberra.<br />
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With a mugshot like that, other ACA members are left with no alternative but to take the piss out of poor old Pete and the relentless ridiculing via the subtle art of caricature begins.<br />
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Danny Zemp is the first to jump on the podium and puts this on display via his own Facebook account.<br />
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This then prompted the following comments...<br />
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A day later, Peter posted the following:<br />
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And thus begins our journey. I shall now attempt to spread these worms about in a vague attempt to keep the story line from straying too far away from itself. Continuity is not a guaranteed constant in all strips and panels though. You have been warned.<br />
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And thus, everything came to a flying stop as everyone got on with themselves and Vince got on with growing a couple of good sized cataracts to pass the boredom.</div>
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What will happen in Part 2????.... Will there be a part 2???<br />
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All will be revealed soon, (about 10 months [and year] later).</div>
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The entire purpose of this particular web page is to assist a teacher I know who requested access to some examples of my digital drawings as he has a student who is interested in producing her own digital art. So it's a big page full of screenshots and completed art works, most of which has been drawn using a drawing tablet and a drawing program called Clip Studio Paint Pro, also known as Manga Studio.<br />
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So lets start with a completed digital drawing. This is one of the first ones I ever created and actually got paid for. <br />
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This example is made up from a real photograph that I blurred digitally to use as the background, and some digital drawings placed on top of it all. The trophy is also from a real photograph and was Photo-Shopped into place. When I say Photo-Shopped that's just a generic term for digitally manipulating an image. I don't actually use Photo-Shop. I prefer to use Clip Studio Paint/Manga Studio, although this particular drawing was created using Photo-Impact long before I discovered the software I use now.<br />
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This next picture was also created using a combination of real photographs and my own hand drawn artwork. I'll go into some of the details of how I go about creating these pictures using this one as an example.</div>
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A good quality drawing program will let you draw using different layers, which is like cutting someone out of a picture and then placing it onto a different picture. The two pictures would be called layers, with the bottom layer containing the background information and the top layer containing the foreground information. The beauty of working with digital art is that you can have multiple layers and thus have multiple objects in front of and behind each other. If you move or change a layer, it won't disturb any other layer. So if you have a person on one layer and a background picture on a layer behind it, you can then move the person all around the place and it won't make any changes to the background layer underneath them. This comes in handy if you aren't sure of where to put someone in a picture. You can simply move their layers around and experiment with where they'll be in the scene until you're happy with how it all looks.</div>
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Using my preferred drawing program (Clip Studio Paint Pro), I first create a grey scale vector layer that I can draw the outline onto. When you create a layer it can be in full colour, or grey scale or outright black and white with no shading. You can also make it a vector layer or a raster layer. I'll explain these two terms as we continue. Drawing on a vector layer means that once I've finished drawing my lines, I can then resize or move sections of them around until I'm happy with the way it looks. No matter how big or small I make things, the lines will remain as smooth as if they were just freshly drawn onto a piece of paper. My vector layer is mostly blank and only the lines I draw will be visible. In this case all the white bits are the transparent bits, so any layers placed underneath will show through, but the lines will remain visible on top of the other layers.</div>
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This is Tim. It was Tim's birthday, so his wife asked me to put him into a Doctor Who picture. This is how I drew his head on a vector layer.</div>
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Once I was happy with all the outlines, it was time to add a little colour. To do this I created a new raster layer underneath the vector layer. A raster layer lets you add shading effects and is really good for colouring in with. It's not very good for drawing lines with though because if you enlarge it, your lines will become blocky and pixilated. So once I have my raster layer sitting underneath the vector layer I can began adding some flat colours. Because the raster layer is under the vector layer, any colour I add will go underneath the lines I drew, which means I can colour anywhere I like and the outline will not be disturbed.</div>
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Once the base colours are in place it's time to add a little shading. There are a number of ways this can be done. You can use the airbrush tool in the program to spray lighter or darker colours directly onto the raster layer you're already using, or you can create a new raster layer and place it in-between the layers you're already using and apply the airbrush to that instead. In my case, I made the middle layer a grey scale raster layer and set it to show as Soft Light. This means if I spray black on the picture, it will create a shadow version of the colours in the layers below it. If I spray white on the picture, it will create a highlight version of the colours instead. Because I do this in a middle layer, it doesn't change anything on the bottom layer or the top layer and if I need to erase any of the shading or highlighting I can simply erase it from the middle layer that I've put it on and the base colours and outlines will still be the way I originally drew them.<br />
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As you can see in the following screenshot, I've now added some shading and highlights on the middle layer. The top layer is the outline, the middle layer contains all the shading and the bottom layer has the base colours. Place them all on top of each other, in the correct order, and you start to get some good looking results. </div>
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Now we need to add some props and the background. For this drawing I took a photo of the TARDIS from Doctor Who and used the cutting tool in the drawing program to cut around the edges. I then placed the cut picture behind the other layers so that it would be behind the main characters in the picture. The door was a bit tricky though. I had to cut parts of it out and place it as a top layer so that it would cover up the Doctor and make it look as if he was peeking out from inside his Time Machine. Finally, I had to carefully erase parts of the door so that the doctor's hand looked as if it was on the outside of it all. Because you can have multiple layers, instead of cutting the door to show the hand, I could have easily just drawn the hand in a new top layer with its own base colour and shading layers and it would then sit in front of the door and the Doctor's arm.</div>
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I then found a picture to use as the background image and placed it as the very bottom layer, which meant all the other elements would be on top and thus look like they were in front of the background image.</div>
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And here's Tim on his birthday, looking very happy with the present his wife just gave him.</div>
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Tim liked his picture so much that his wife asked me to draw a new picture for his next birthday one year later. This time I chose to draw the majority of the background instead of using a photograph. This picture is made up of multiple layers on top of each other. The chequered area represents the parts of the picture that don't have any information drawn or painted on them.</div>
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Using the three layer method again, I created 3 new layers so that I could draw the outline, add some base colours and then some shading for a character to go on top of all the other layers.</div>
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Next I created three more layers and placed them underneath all the other layers so I could create an alien version of Tim standing behind the main view screen. The reason I've made the background purple is so that I can see where I'm colouring in any white bits when I'm working on the base colour layer. I can remove the purple background after I'm happy with how Tim looks.<br />
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After I'd finished with Tim's 3 layers, I added an image from a photograph as the background.<br />
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The finished product then looked like this. The layers from bottom to top are:</div>
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2. The three layers that make up alien Tim</div>
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3. The multiple layers that make up the main room and computer screens</div>
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4. The three layers that make up the two people sitting in the chairs</div>
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5. The multiple layers that make up the chairs and the computer console at the bottom of the picture</div>
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When I first started drawing digitally I had to get myself a drawing tablet. This is the first one I ever used and it cost about 90 Australian Dollars. In order to draw on one of these you need to train yourself to look at the computer screen while your hand draws directly onto the tablet with the stylus pen. It takes a bit of practice, but after a while you'll find you don't need to hit the undo button as often as you did when you first started using the thing.<br />
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If you ever want to make a living as a graphic artist you'll probably need to upgrade to a drawing tablet that has a screen built in to it so you draw directly onto the screen that you're looking at. I now use one of these. They vary in price from around 1000 to 4000 or more Australian dollars depending on the size of the tablet and if it needs to be plugged into a computer or not.</div>
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The one I have is also a tablet computer which doesn't need to be plugged into another computer to work. This makes it more expensive though, so If you don't need to take your work with you in your travels it's cheaper to buy one that just plugs into your home computer and doesn't double as a portable computer tablet.</div>
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Finally, if you'd like to try the software I used to draw it all with, you can download a trial version of Clip Studio Paint from <a href="http://www.clipstudio.net/en/purchase/trial" target="_blank">here</a>. You can then use it for 30 days befpre you need to pay the purchase price. If you ever do decide to purchase the full program, it quite often goes on sale with very good discounts at various times throughout the year. Keep checking back to see if you can get it for a better bargain than it already is.</div>
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I'll finish up now by posting some pictures from a work in progress that I'm currently creating for a Facebook buddy who is an artist on the Autism Spectrum. The picture is made from multiple layers with each character on the page made up of their own 3 individual layers representing the outline, the shading and the base colours. I can then place each completed character anywhere I like on the page and decide if they sit in front of or behind a character that it shares some of the page with.</div>
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For those of you who've seen my blogs on <a href="http://artblogbyvince.blogspot.com.au/2015/09/review-wacom-cintiq-companion-2-256gb.html" target="_blank">the farce that involved purchasing a brand new Cintiq Companion 2 from Wacom Australia</a>, it may come as a bit of a surprise to you that I might actually attempt to make another purchase from them.
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Well.... after throwing all caution to the wind, I thought I'd give them the benefit of the doubt and lash out on an official Wacom blue-tooth keyboard for the thing, which I am currently NOT in the process of typing this with. It's currently in Limbo land in the hands of Australia Post who don't know where to send it.
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The following account is based on data obtained from Australia Post's online tracking facility, some phone calls from me to Australia Post, and phone calls I had to make to Wacom themselves. Let the
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At first, it all seemed to be going well. After making my purchase via Wacom's very own Australian edition of their online shop and carefully giving them my postal address, Wacom confirmed my order via an email and sent me a tracking number that I could use online at Australia Post. The email also showed that the delivery address as supplied was correct.
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So.... time to start tracking my parcel...
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<b>Day One:
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<i>Friday 11 March 2016
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Started – Shipping information received by Australia Post</div>
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<i>Friday 11 March 2016</i></div>
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3:05pm</div>
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In transit – Picked up from sender – Alexandria NSW</div>
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4:54pm</div>
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In transit
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My package was on its way. After being picked up by Australia Post, it was then taken a short distance from Alexandria in New South Wales down to Banksmeadow. I don't have exact locations of where the package travels to as it gets scanned at each checkpoint so the screenshots that I'm using here from Google Maps just show the central locations of each suburb. So far, so good.</div>
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<i>Friday 11 March 2016</i></div>
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5:40pm</div>
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In transit
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Something strange just happened. From Banksmeadow it was taken back to Alexandria and flagged as being picked up from the sender a second time... Did the driver scan my package and then fail to pick it up the first time??? But.... it was scanned at Banksmeadow, so it must have been in the driver's possession when he or she got there.... so why has it been scanned at Alexandria again and re-listed as being picked up from the sender a second time???? Oh well, I suppose they'll have to start over and take it back to Banksmeadow.</div>
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In transit – Alexandria NSW</div>
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In transit – Processed through Australia Post facility – Chullora NSW</div>
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Wait a minute.... that's not <i>Banksmeadow</i>. It's the Australia Post Facility in Chullora, and it's nowhere near Banksmeadow.... Perhaps Wacom had the parcel awaiting collection from a warehouse in Banksmeadow, but had the initial paperwork waiting to be picked up from an office in Alexandria first... but... why scan it in as picked up twice at the original location with a checkpoint elsewhere in-between?... This is getting confusing and it's only been on the tracking system for an hour and 2 minutes!!!!! Seriously???</div>
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In transit – Processed through Australia Post facility – Sunshine West VIC</div>
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following Tuesday the parcel made an appearance in Victoria. Parcels used to just travel from whichever Australian State they started their journey in and then come straight down to Tasmania. Since Australia Post's new double tiered delivery service has become a reality though (where you can now pay extra to have your parcels delivered in the normal time-frame, or pay the regular price and have to wait a bit longer before they get around to delivering it), all of our packages that come from the Mainland now have a pit-stop at Sunshine West in Victoria while the first class parcels get priority. Note, Wacom did not offer a faster postal option for a higher price, which I think is only about $2 extra per parcel with Australia Post. I just had to use the single flat postage option that Wacom gave me.</div>
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<b>Day Eight: </b>(Day six if not counting weekends or public holidays):</div>
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<i>Friday 18 March 2016</i></div>
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9:00am</div>
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In transit – With Australia Post for delivery today – Mornington TAS</div>
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It took 3 days before it made the overnight trip into Tassie, where it was finally flagged as ready to be delivered!!! Woohoo!!!!! Not long now.</div>
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<i>Friday 18 March 2016</i></div>
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<i>Wait</i>.... What???? Don't tell me Wacom's managed to put the wrong address on the parcel!?!!</div>
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<i>Friday 18 March 2016</i></div>
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11:37am</div>
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And yes, Wacom <i>has</i> written the wrong address on the parcel. They got the State correct, they got the suburb correct, they even got the street name correct. Do you think they'd be capable of writing the correct house number on the package though??? NOOOoooo..... We live in a street that used to be farmland, and over the years sections have been sold off as subdivided parcels, so there are a lot of houses with an A or a B after the street number such as 1A or 2B. We live on one of these subdivisions, so our house number has an A, which is what was typed in when I made the purchase. It was confirmed via an email from Wacom and via me visiting their website to look at my account details. So do you think they might be capable of writing our address with the number followed by an A? NOOOoooo..... Do you think they might have just accidentally left the A off of the address and just put down the number instead? NOOOoooo..... They actually managed to write a number 4 instead of an A, so the package was taken to a house number that's one and a half blocks away, or about 700 metres to a kilometre up the street. Imagine if you lived at 7A or 8A and your package had been addressed to 74 or 84 instead. This is what has just happened. Well done Wacom, you've ballsed up again. Of course, Australia Post cant deliver it to the correct address because I'm not the sender and haven't got the authority to make the change. I'll have to call Wacom to get them to sort it out.</div>
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After calling Wacom and explaining their mistake, I'm told I'll have to wait for them to call me back, which they do at the end of the day. Apparently they made an error (well duh!!!) and they've fixed it by telling Australia post to redirect my package to the correct address. They don't know if Australia Post will be able to intercept the parcel or not once it's in the Return to Sender phase though..... let's get back to the tracking service then....</div>
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<i>Friday 18 March 2016</i></div>
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2:05pm</div>
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In transit – Mornington TAS</div>
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OK, so it's now back at the mail centre awaiting its next move, which should be back to Bellerive for another delivery attempt but with the correct street number this time.</div>
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<b>Day Eleven:</b> (Day seven if not counting weekends or public holidays):<br />
<i>Monday 21 March 2016</i></div>
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10:42am</div>
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Returning to sender – Address not known – Mornington TAS</div>
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Three days pass, with no updates on the location of my parcel, then we have the Easter 4 day long weekend. Finally, on the Wednesday after Easter, the parcel gets scanned by Australia Post....</div>
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<i>Wednesday 30 March 2016</i></div>
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Returning to sender – With Australia Post for delivery today – Alexandria NSW</div>
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Oh look, it's gone back to Alexandria in NSW. Looks like Wacom will be getting it back after-all. Yay??? At least they'll be able to put the correct address on it this time before resending it in the post.</div>
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<i>Wednesday 30 March 2016</i></div>
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Returning to sender – Attempted Delivery – Customer refused –
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<i>Wednesday 30 March 2016</i></div>
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Returning to sender – In transit – Botany NSW</div>
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<i>Wednesday 30 March 2016</i></div>
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Returning to sender – Awaiting Collection at BOTANY POST SHOP – Botany NSW</div>
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What the hell's going on??? Wacom don't want it, so it's now sitting in the Botany Post Shop in the hopes that someone comes to get it??? I called Wacom for the second time since the parcel went rogue and once again I was told that I'd get a callback as soon as they knew what was happening.</div>
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<i>Wednesday 30 March 2016</i></div>
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Returning to sender – address not known – Botany NSW</div>
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<i>Thursday 31 March 2016</i></div>
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Returning to sender – Processed through Australia Post facility – Chullora NSW</div>
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So much for my callback. I didn't get one. At least the parcel's back on its original course, which hopefully will get it back down to Tassie again where it belongs.</div>
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<b>Day Twenty Two:</b> (Day fifteen if not counting weekends or public holidays):<br />
<i>Friday 1 April 2016</i></div>
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Returning to sender – Processed through Australia Post Facility – Sunshine West VIC</div>
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So as we come to yet another weekend, the parcel has once again arrived back in Victoria. Instead of taking 2 days to get there from Chullora in NSW it's managed to only take 1 day this time. Will it be ready to deliver once again in 3 work days as happened the last time it got this far? We'll see what happens between now and Wednesday. It seems that Wacom has determined I don't need a call back, so with any luck I'll soon be typing the last of this blog post using my new, fangled, rechargeable blue-tooth keyboard.</div>
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Returning to sender – Processed through Australia Post facility – Chullora NSW</div>
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Oh look, it's bouncing between the sorting facilities in Sunshine West VIC and Chullora NSW.<br />
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It is now 9:28am and I've been on hold with Australia post for 48 minutes while a recorded message repeats every 30 seconds stating, “We apologise for the delay, we will be with you as soon as possible.”</div>
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9:54am, Australia Post tells me that because the parcel was refused at both ends it will now go to the dead letter department. Apparently Wacom did organise a redirection on the 21<sup>st</sup> but the incorrect address was never change, however both parties managed to stuff that one little detail up as well.<br />
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10:06am. I've just gotten off the phone with Wacom Australia who said they would normally send me a replacement but they're out of stock. I told them to just give me a refund, to which Jenny replied “I'll do that now” then hung up on me. Not so much as a sorry for wasting my time, she just hung up. I'll assume her name is Jenny seeing as the bloke who answered the phone said that Jenny was busy and he'd get me on to her as soon as possible. If Jenny doesn't have a thick Asian accent, then I've ended up with someone who does. Whoever she is, I've been dealing with her over the phone since this whole fiasco began. She never actually gives out her name when she answers the phone though. </div>
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So this will be the last time I ever purchase direct from Wacom. Their customer service is appalling and their dispatch department just hasn't got a clue. Be warned if anyone else decides to purchase from them. Just don't!!!! First the faulty Cintiq Companion 2 that died within the first three days of use, now this big balls up because they're too useless to write the correct address on the parcel and too useless to give the correct address again when organising the redirection.<br />
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<b>Day Twenty Eight:</b> (Day nineteen if not counting weekends or public holidays):<br />
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2:57pm. I sit here now in front of my Wacom Cintiq Companion 2, happily touch typing away on my brand new rechargeable Bluetooth keyboard.<br />
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Note, I am <i>not</i> using a Wacom keyboard. That was finally accepted as a returned item by Wacom yesterday morning. Instead, I'm using my Microsoft branded keyboard that I ordered from Officeworks a couple of days ago, and it also had to come from the mainland to get here to me in Southern Tassie. The main difference being that it got here in the space of a few days as opposed to Wacom's package almost taking an entire month and still not successfully being delivered to the customer.<br />
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After Wacom Australia finally took back the rogue keyboard package from Australia Post, I received a phone call from them. The man with the Australian accent did much grovelling and boot licking before telling me that even though I'd been given a refund, they were now going to resend it free of charge to say sorry. Apparently Wacom Australia is in the process of changing hands in the distribution centre which resulted in someone putting the wrong address on my parcel (you think???). He had no idea why the package was marked as refused when Australia Post attempted to give it back to them the first time. Apparently those that were there on the day claim that Australia Post never turned up with the package to begin with.<br />
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So when the now free Wacom keyboard finally gets here, if it does this time, I'll have two rechargeable Bluetooth keyboards for my drawing tablet PC.... I only needed one of the things.<br />
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Ever had someone offer you the deal of a lifetime? Free exposure in return for your own time as a cartoonist? You're not alone. Is it acceptable to be offered exposure instead of money for your services? That's for you to decide based on each individual case. Just remember though, exposure doesn't pay the bills and unless you're getting free national advertising during prime time peak periods which will actually attract paying customers, it's really not worth the time and effort you put into each drawing that they use for free.
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Way back in 1993, I developed a newspaper comic strip that revolved around four brothers who shared a house together. At the time I was also in the middle of a part-time, evening TAFE course on cartooning being taught by political cartoonist Harry Bruce, who shook my hand at the end of it all and sincerely apologised for not being able to teach me anything that I hadn't already mastered on my own. After seeing my new comic strip concept, Harry encouraged me to approach some newspaper editors to see if any were interested in taking the strip on full-time. Unfortunately none were interested, but one editor of a local newspaper did say she'd be interested in a weekly political cartoon if I could come up with a few ideas and show her that I could get the job done. So the next day I turned up with a couple of finished drawings and was very pleased when she said she'd like for me to draw one every week as the new political cartoonist. The magic of the moment was deadened a bit when the editor offered a regular payment of just $5. Still, it was a foot in the door and some much needed exposure. Perhaps some other newspaper editors would eventually start using my weekly cartoons as well or it could lead to other work. I was told to rock up for my first pay cheque on a certain day every month as everyone was paid on a monthly basis. As I'd just missed out on the last pay-date, it was about 4 weeks later when I turned up for my first payment. The editor took me in to her office, told me how much everyone had liked my first four cartoons and how she looked forward to seeing my next one, then handed me a crisp $5 note from petty-cash. Apparently she had taken me on not for the bargain price of $5 per drawing, but for the even cheaper price of $5 per month. She just hadn't made herself clear about it all when she first told me how much I could expect for my work. Needless to say, I chose not to draw for her ever again after telling her what I thought of her "more than generous" offer.<br />
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It's very hard to become a cartoonist for a living when people don't think you actually deserve to be paid for the time you invest in each and every drawing. Even now, as a freelance cartoonist with my own registered Australian Business Number, I still get the occasion where people who ask for a quote are horrified that I'd be asking for more than a few dollars for a job that will take many hours to complete from concept drawing, to finished product with revision time in-between if they change their mind on how it should look somewhere along the way. I have been known to donate my time for charitable events and causes, but for a regular caricature portrait either for personal or business purposes, my time and my skills as an artist are going to cost you a fee, which I will set based on what the drawing consists of, and what the drawing will be used for. If you intend to use the drawing to help sell or promote a product or service then the fee will be higher than if you're just having a special caricature portrait made up for your dear old mother. Unless you specifically arrange to purchase the copyright from me, which in itself is a more expensive option, then you are paying for my time and my skills and the right to use the art I produce for you in the manner that is agreed upon before the drawing process even commences. If you don't like the price, we can always negotiate a different fee by adjusting the drawing and/or the usage rights. If you still don't think my time and skills as an artist are worth the dollars, you can always look for someone else to try and rip off, or attempt to do the drawing yourself seeing as you think it's so easy to do that it's not worth paying a fair price for.<br />
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Today was an interesting day for me in that I got to witness how different artists react to being asked to provide their time and skills for free or as in this case, for exposure. A young lady posted the following to the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/australiancartoonists/" target="_blank">Facebook page of The Australian Cartoonists Association</a>.</div>
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My initial response was to diplomatically say thanks, but no thanks.<br />
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Others weren't so gentle. After being asked to provide work for free some artists simply tell it like it is, which naturally prompted the young lady in question, who probably had no idea she was being offensive with her question, to answer back.</div>
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While the above post was being typed, I was busily typing up an offer to provide my services for a fee, so I didn't see the previously posted comment until I posted mine which became the next comment.</div>
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Others joined in with their own responses to the initial request.<br />
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Being cartoonists, some injected a little humour into their comments.<br />
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We also heard from the voice of reason. By the time I'd taken this screenshot the young lady had already deleted her original post, so there was no way for me to be able to expand this particular post to show you the rest of it. It was all just lingering in a previously opened tab in my web browser.<br />
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Not everyone was interested in reason though. Everyone reacts in their own unique ways.<br />
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Finally, after being ridiculed and given a hard time, the young lady wrote what she thought of us all, before deleting the post from the ACA's Facebook wall altogether. Even though I had not been one to give her a telling off, my first comment was referenced in her parting words when she typed, "Good luck paying your bills."<br />
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In the aftermath discussion thread, the voice of reason shone through once more.<br />
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So what did we achieve today? Not a lot. A person asked a group of people to provide their services for free, got told in varying ways that she needs to actually pay for these services or bugger off for being rude enough to want something for nothing from them, and then left none-the-wiser because she was too angry to listen to the reasons given because people were angry with her that someone could be rude enough to undermine their skills and talents as artists. Could it have been handled better? Not really. There are so many people out there who think cartooning isn't a legitimate profession or isn't worth paying for that there are a lot of cartoonists who have just had enough of it when these people come along and offer no real compensation for the time and skill that goes into each individual's work. You wouldn't ask a group of journalists to give you a weekly column in return for exposure, so what makes you think it's OK to ask a group of cartoonists to provide their services for the same lousy deal? When I was presented with that $5 note for four political cartoons in four weeks it was one of the biggest insults I've ever been given. If you want a professional drawing, it's going to cost money. If you want it for free though, go right ahead and draw it yourself. Exposure is not legal tender and doesn't pay for my time nor for my skills as a cartoonist. While I won't go as far as telling you to go and stick it where the sun doesn't shine, I will let you know why it's unacceptable and how you can go about contacting me if you ever want to pay for my services.<br />
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There's a drawing that was created by the folks from <a href="http://explosm.net/" target="_blank">Cyanide and Happiness</a> that more or less sums it all up for artists when it comes to free exposure. Rather than breach their copyright by posting the drawing here, I'll provide a link to the comic on their own website and you can view it from there.<br />
<a href="http://explosm.net/comics/3751" target="_blank">http://explosm.net/comics/3751 </a><br />
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UPDATE: 6th November 2015<br />
Apparently there is another way that some people use to try and get something for nothing. Mark Parisi who is the brilliant cartoonist behind <a href="http://www.offthemark.com/" target="_blank">Off The Mark</a> has recently posted the following to his Facebook wall:<br />
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So this person would normally charge the cartoonist a fee to use his or her cartoons because it's a form of advertising??? So they're doing the cartoonist a big favour by waiving the fee??? Wow!!!!!!!<br />
Judging by the comments on Mark's post, it's a pretty common occurance too. Not today Zurg.... not any day. Pay the fee to use the cartoon or simply don't use it. It's as simple as that.<br />
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Vince Steelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15852291110577459994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6764193169707051061.post-29306775230676378552015-09-25T02:00:00.001+10:002021-10-09T19:06:22.962+11:00The Cintiq Companion 2 Saga<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span id="goog_886174828"></span><span id="goog_886174829"></span>As most of my followers know I am a digital artist. I create all of my work digitally from the creation of rough layout sketches through to the finished product. I have been doing this with the aid of a Wacom brand, Bamboo/Pen drawing tablet which essentially means I have the drawing tablet in my left hand, whilst I draw with the remote stylus in my right hand. While my hands are busily making lines and squiggles on the drawing tablet, my eyes are glued to the computer monitor in front of me, and even though my hand-eye coordination has been steadily improving over the years with this set up, it's still a bit of a struggle at times to get the pointer on the screen to go exactly where I'd like it to go as I draw blindly on the drawing pad's surface. The undo button in Manga Studio 5 gets used quite a lot, so it's not really very productive having to second guess where my lines are going to end up on the picture I'm working on at the time, only to have to redo them again and again if I'm not quite satisfied with the finished result.<br />
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With this in mind, I decided I needed a drawing tablet that actually had a monitor screen built into it so I could draw directly onto the image I was working on. After much research I opted for the Wacom brand, Cintiq Companion 2, 256gb i7 model as it also doubled as a Windows 8.1 tablet computer, which meant I'd no longer be chained to the desktop computer. With the Companion 2 I could run my favourite graphics creation programs directly on the drawing tablet and sit anywhere I damn well liked. Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine I'd ever think about spending close to $3000 AUD on a drawing tablet. Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine I'd ever think about spending close to $3000 on a tablet computer either. But, as a business related investment it seemed to be worth the price.<br />
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After placing the order online from the <a href="https://buywacom.com.au/products/creative-pen-displays.html?_ga=1.9166897.544999610.1439304047" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wacom estore</a> I came across my first issue. Namely, Wacom will NOT deliver to post office box addresses. Naturally I assumed that this was due to Wacom using TNT Transport for courier deliveries. It seems though, that the courier delivery service is only used for items that weigh a great deal more than my single Cintiq Companion 2 does, so my parcel was eventually bundled off via Australia Post with an eTracking Number. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure Australia Post actually do deliver to post office Boxes, seeing as they quite often deliver various letters and parcels to our post office box on numerous occasions during the week. The main reason we got the post office box was because we didn't like having our parcel deliveries left on our front doorstep if we weren't home at the time of delivery. The post office box is a more secure option for us and for the sellers we purchase from as it means there's less chance we'll have to contact them that we didn't receive our purchase. So why can't Wacom deliver to flaming post office boxes then??? (On a side note, we recently purchased a 50 pack of coloured gel pens from an ebay seller, but we couldn't actually follow through and pay for our item because the seller also refused to send items to post office boxes. When we queried this he chose to just cancel our order altogether. I just don't see what the problem is with post office boxes being used as a secure delivery address.)<br />
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About a week later, the tracking number we had been given showed us that our parcel had finally arrived in Tasmania from New South Wales and would be delivered that day. We had a school run to do first, but we managed to get back home at around 9:06am. Unfortunately, Australia Post managed to get to our home at around 9:02am, so instead of the parcel, we had a small card in the letterbox that said we'd have to go to the post office to pick it up... the same post office where our post office box is situated, where Wacom refused to send our parcel to in the first place. Had our parcel been addressed to the post office box, we would have been able to pick it up that morning. Because the parcel had not been addressed to the post office box, it was still in the hands of the delivery person, and they noted on the card that I probably wouldn't be able to pick the parcel up from the post office until later that afternoon because they had other deliveries to get on with first. Thanks for that Wacom.<br />
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Later that day, we had another school run to get on with, so we stopped off at the post office on the way back home and I was given a box that was actually twice the size of the drawing tablet I'd ordered, with plenty of air bags to stop the tablet box inside from sliding around all over the place... or rather, they would have stopped the tablet box inside from sliding around all over the place if they'd actually used enough of the things to fill in all the empty space around the tablet box that was inside the larger box.<br />
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After getting home and feeding and watering our boys, who'd just got home from school, I proceeded to carefully open the package and then carefully open the tablet box. This was probably the most enjoyable part of everything that I'll be writing in this blog tonight. The drawing tablet had been very professionally packaged up, with layer upon layer of crafted black cardboard shapes holding everything safely in place. I was surprised to find that it not only came with an Australian standard electrical plug for the charging brick, but it also came with various cords suitable for other countries, which would no doubt come in handy if I was someone who actually travelled overseas from time to time. The tablet itself was sleek and stylish (and still is funnily enough), and the 2048 pressure sensitive pen with built in electronic eraser function was packaged in a very sleek and stylish little pen case.<br />
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The battery on it was as flat as a pancake, so I quickly and carefully plugged in the charger via the Australian standard electrical plug. A little light came on next to the power jack to let me know that the battery was now receiving power, so I flicked the on switch, then went through all the motions while Windows 8.1 asked me numerous questions in order to try and trick me into signing my first born child away to Microsoft before the operating system eventually stopped entertaining itself with its own bright colours as the system eventually sorted itself out, ready for first use.<br />
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So far, so good. While Windows sorted out its updates I proceeded to customise the settings to my liking. The next thing I knew, I was being asked if I wanted to upgrade to Windows 10. I hate Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 with a passion, so I quite happily told Windows to go ahead and upgrade itself. I was already familiar with the free upgrade process so I knew what to expect. On other computers that I'd previously upgraded, it only took about an hour before Windows 10 was asking me if I'd like to sign away the rest of my children before it could continue setting itself up to the point where it no longer needed to set itself up and I could just get on with using the thing. Windows 8.1 then proceeded to download the Windows 10 update.... or so I thought. I came back half an hour later to find it hadn't progressed past 0%. This was my first encounter with the crappiness of the Wifi hardware built into this almost $3000 tablet computer. I eventually just left it overnight to get on with itself while I slept.<br />
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The next morning, Windows 10 was finally ready to ask me how many children I had and if I actually needed to keep any of them for personal use or not. First, we had another school run to get out of the way, so once I was home again, I promptly told it that it was none of its business and the operating system kept itself amused with a pulsating blue screen for a bit instead of playing with its own colours like Windows 8.1 did.<br />
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Once Windows 10 had finished installing itself I had to go to the settings and tell it that I'd actually like to be informed beforehand if it ever needed to restart itself due to the compulsory update option that can no longer be changed to a not-compulsory option. Thanks for that Microsoft, I found out about that one the hard way when I upgraded the desktop computer. I was in the middle of drawing away on my Bamboo/Pen tablet when all of a sudden the computer shut down and restarted on me with no warnings offered whatsoever. I didn't even get an option to save my work. It was all just thrown away because a critical update for my power-on indicator was more important.<br />
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Once Windows was installed and I'd configured everything the way I liked it, it was time to install Firefox, Manga Studio 5, and PhotoImpact X3. This was all done via my WiFi internet connection, which on every other device in the house seems to work perfectly, but on the Cintiq Companion 2 it took forever. Not only was the download speed extra slow, but the WiFi signal to our Internet box kept dropping out, and again, it was only doing this on the Cintiq. My laptop remained happily connected to the network. My Windows 8.1 phone remained happily connected to the network. All with very strong signals. The signal strength indicator on the Companion 2 however was erratic. The WiFi hardware in this almost $3000 tablet computer is absolute crap!!!!!! Why does my almost $3000 tablet computer cost almost $3000 if it has inferior hardware on board???<br />
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Eventually I got everything installed. A quick check of the settings revealed that my 256gb i7 tablet had been upgraded somewhere along the way from the 2.7ghz model to the 3.1ghz model, so that was a bonus. Next step, let's try drawing something. That's primarily what the tablet was purchased for. But first, a quick pen calibration is in order because the pen cursor is not quite in line with the pen nib when it's making contact with the screen.... hang on... I just went through the calibration set up and now it's worse. In order to calibrate the pen, the Wacom software puts a cross-hair on each corner of the screen and you have to touch each one precisely in the middle with the pen nib. So you'd expect the pen cursor to be lined up perfectly afterwards, especially where the cross-hairs were in the four corners of the tablet screen.... Nope.... In the top left corner of the screen, the pen cursor lined up exactly with the pen nib. No problems.... In the top right corner of the screen, the pen cursor was out of alignment by about 3mm to the exact left of the pen nib. In the bottom left corner, it was out of alignment by about 3mm directly above the pen nib. Finally, in the bottom right corner, it was out of alignment above and to the left of the pen nib. The only way to fix this was to offset my calibration pointing for each cross-hair depending on how the cursor was originally offset. It took a few goes, but I managed to get the cursor location spot on in relation to the pen nib no matter where I touched the screen. For an almost $3000 tablet computer that's been designed mainly as a drawing workhorse, you'd think they could get the pen input a bit more accurate after using the calibration screen. That is what the calibration screen has been designed to do, after all.<br />
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Alright, we're now calibrated perfectly. Let's fire up Manga Studio 5 and have a draw.... wait.... didn't I just calibrate the pen? If I point it to any of the program's icons or menu options, it lines up perfectly, but if I actually point the pen at the drawing area of the screen the pen cursor is now about an entire centimetre out of alignment, to the bottom and right of the pen nib. A quick Google search fixes it by informing me that there's a setting in Manga Studio 5 that has a tick box. If the box is ticked then the program knows you're on a tablet computer and the offset while drawing problem goes away, which it did. Thanks Google.... did I say a quick Google search? With the WiFi signal turning itself on and off every few seconds??? I don't think so. Oh look, WiFi is still stable on my laptop and phone... this is going to be a problem if I need to use Google images to search for reference pictures to copy from when I'm drawing something.<br />
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So, Windows is now working, my programs are now working and my pen is now working. Apart from the WiFi, what could possibly go wrong? I then proceeded to start a few drawings for the book I'm hoping to publish and saved the images to the Solid State Drive (SSD). I'll probably need to get a good sized SD card to make backups on so I can transfer them quickly to my laptop. Transferring over the WiFi is near impossible with all the drop outs. Now.... back to my previous question of "what could possibly go wrong?" The next day I'd done quite a lot of preliminary work for various pages of the book and saved them to the SSD. At about 7pm I saved my work and shut down the tablet, using the proper procedures. That was the last time my almost $3000 drawing tablet was known to be working. When I plug in the charger cable, there is no little light that comes on next to the power jack any more. I have been very careful to make sure that when I'm using the tablet that it's on its stand with the power cord plugged in and I make doubly sure that the power jack is not being bent or twisted or pulled on. There is absolutely no reason for this to be happening... time for another Google search.... Oh look!!! Apparently the Cintiq Companion 1 has had this exact same issue. The power jack they used was an inferior product that they were replacing under warranty for affected users... BUT.... some of the replacements were actually of the same faulty power jack rather than of the new improved power jack that other people were getting, so some people had the same problem happening all over again on their repaired tablets. Never mind. It shouldn't be a problem any more because they've assured us all that only Companion tablets made before 2014 are affected and any tablets that were manufactured after this will have the new improved power jack as standard.... So why am I now having this problem, along with other Companion 2 users? (Lord Google told me about the others). The Companion 2 wasn't released until 2015.... you'd think they'd realise that if the inferior plug's going to go belly up on the Companion 1, then it probably won't survive very well on the Companion 2... but nooooooooooo... Using the improved power jacks would be the clever thing to do and quite clearly, those who work in the design department at Wacom are simply not clever things.<br />
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So what happens from here? Well... I have to contact Wacom to get my almost $3000 tablet computer fixed under warranty after a whole 2 days worth of usage. According to the warranty card that came with the thing, once they get their hands back on it, the first thing they are required to do, to protect my privacy, is to wipe the hard drive completely, and reinstall it back to factory standards, which means I will lose those 2 days worth of drawings that I was about to buy an SD card for to use as a backup option. Thanks Wacom. I suppose it was a bit silly of me to think I'd get at least three days usage out of my almost $3000 tablet computer, which would have given me time to make a backup of the work I'd produced in that time. Hey, and I get to have all the fun of waiting all night for Windows 10 to download and install again, and then wait while my drawing programs download, and then having to recalibrate the pen with your off-centre calibration program....<br />
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Seriously, if you're going to charge almost $3000 for a tablet computer that's meant to be a workhorse for artists, you could at least use quality hardware, like for instance a decent power jack or maybe a half decent WiFi chip and have a calibration program installed that actually works. And because you're selling these almost $3000 tablet computers to artists who will most likely be temporarily saving their works to the solid state hard drive, you could at least leave the contents of the hard drives intact when your inferior products break down every couple of days.<br />
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Thanks again Wacom. You're doing yourselves proud.<br />
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Peasants.<br />
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<u>Update: 25th September 2015</u><br />
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I called Wacom Australia today and told them the problem with the tablet
no longer receiving any power and being unresponsive and unable to boot,
etc, and they sent me an email with a list of troubleshooting
suggestions to try before they decide if it needs looking at or not.
What were the suggestions? There was a grand total of one suggestion to
try and it was for me to try holding the power cord at different angles
to see if there was any response..... apparently that suggestion had to
be delivered via email and couldn't be asked of me while I was on the
phone with them. The email also informed me that once I return the unit
for repairs, they will wipe my hard drive for my own privacy and simply
can not do any data recovery for me whatsoever, and that I should
probably make a backup of all data before I send it off.... erm....
there's no power and it's not booting up... how exactly do I manage to
back up what's on the SSD if I can't actually get the thing powered up
to begin with? Finally, the email finished with a link to a website that
tells me I should try resetting it factory settings, which involves
swiping from the right side of the screen, selecting settings and....
erm... again, there's no power and it's not booting up, so there's no
way I can actually access the reset to factory options setting from
within Windows. So I've sent them a lengthy reply with a scanned copy of
the service request form that they needed me to fill out and hopefully
they'll be organising for the warranty repair job to take place fairly
soonish. Hopefully they'll also send me a repaired unit with an upgraded
power jack and not a stock standard model from another box that still
has the old faulty power jack. I just paid almost $3000 for a brand new
drawing tablet, so I'd actually like to have my new tablet fixed and not
end up with a refurbished unit, which I probably could have purchased
for a cheaper price to start with. For the price you'd expect more than 3
days worth of usage from the shiny new hardware device you've just paid
for before it gets replaced with someone else's broken down unit that needed fixing last month.<br />
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<u>Update 30th September 2015</u><br />
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After carefully repackaging my dead Companion 2 back into its box and then back into the postage container it came in, it was with a heavy heart that I handed my poor dead drawing tablet over to the Star Track courier service delivery driver on Monday afternoon (two days ago) when he came to the door to pick it up for its long journey back to the mainland. Wacom Australia had finally decided that I was due for a repair under warranty job and had organised (and paid for) a courier service to pick the tablet up from my home address. A courier service that actually has a better reputation than the one they use when they're sending heavier products out to their customers. I was actually quite relieved to learn that they use Australia Post for deliveries that don't weigh a tonne after I'd initially made my purchase and had the Post Office Box refused as a legitimate postal address. Unfortunately, by the time the courier service had emailed me with the paperwork and mailing labels for the controlled return, which I had to print out, and instructions on how to organise a pick up time, they were closed for the weekend. So I used the weekend to grab a bus into town to get the paperwork and labels printed up at one of the self serve kiosks at Officeworks. I think it cost me a grand total of 16 cents in printing costs, plus the $3 or so in bus fares for the return trip. Why did I go to Officeworks for this I hear you ask? Because as a freelance cartoonist and caricaturist, it's actually cheaper for me to outsource my printing jobs, instead of paying for my own paper and inks to use on my own printer, which decided to stop printing one day and has been shelved ever since. The quality of the prints is also better this way and I can get prints done larger than A4 size. So I don't actually have a working printer with which to print out courier labels and forms. So as I waved my precious almost $3000 piece of junk goodbye, I took great comfort in the knowledge that it was already broken as the driver threw it into the back of his van with a loud crashing thump and that it was going to a better place, the Wacom Service Centre, where it will most likely be refurbished and offered for sale at a cheaper price to someone who couldn't afford a brand new model. Someone who ends up with a fully working Cintiq Companion 2 for a cheaper price than I paid for a brand new one that broke after three days. The bastard!!!!<br />
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It's now a waiting game. A waiting game to see if I get the same tablet back in a repaired state (it has a brown dot on the back of the casing in permanent marker, so I'll know if it's the same one or not, unless they clean it off), or a refurbished model that stopped working for someone else a few weeks ago, or a brand new one that hopefully doesn't have the same faulty hardware.<br />
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<u>Update: 3rd October 2015</u><br />
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We have received your unit safely at QSL Wacom repair centre.</div>
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The fault on your unit has been confirmed.</div>
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Your feedback has been noted and we have escalated it to Wacom Australia.<br />
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They have informed us we will be replacing your unit due to no availability of repair parts.</div>
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The replacement unit will not be a refurbished or second hand model.<br />
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The process will take 3-5 business days to complete, not including freight time.<br />
We apologies (sic) for any inconveniences caused.</div>
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This is the email I received yesterday at around 4pm. So it's now a matter of waiting for the replacement unit to arrive in the mail and hopefully everything will work perfectly, including the WiFi. Apparently other folks who have had their faulty units replaced under warranty have noticed the WiFi suddenly working for them on the replacement model, so there's probably a few faulty WiFi cards installed in the same units that also have the faulty power jacks.<br />
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<u>Update: 5th October 2015</u><br />
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On the 12th of September this year, I placed a very expensive order online with the Wacom Australia shop. The main reasoning behind this decision was so I could continue to have extra digital drawing time while my two teenage boys took turns taking over the desktop computer for their gaming and Internet time during the school holidays. The unit arrived on the 21st of September, which isn't too bad a time frame considering it had to be shipped from the mainland and across the Bass Strait to get to my address. A few days later, as explained above in the main content of this blog post, the tablet refused to start due to a faulty power jack and Wacom Australia organised for the return of the faulty tablet at their expense so they could evaluate the damage and whether it was covered under warranty or not. They quickly deduced that the unit was indeed faulty and let me know that I was due a brand new replacement unit and I'm very happy with this decision. It looks though as if the school holidays will be well and truly finished before I actually get my replacement tablet, which defeats the purpose of trying to get it in time for the holidays in the first place. While I will still get much use out of the replacement unit, if it lives more than a few days this time, I'm not happy about having to wait for 4 weeks from the point of purchase to actually having a working device in my posession. The fact that Wacom are selling faulty professional drawing tablet computers that cost as much as they do is not the best way to generate favourable reviews and get customers to recommend their products to the people in their network. For example, my Facebook buddy list alone contains over 40 professional artists, cartoonists, caricaturists and comic strip writers who have all been following my Wacom saga since it began. Professionals who create editorial cartoons for big newspapers, professionals who work regularly for Mad Magazine, professionals who work for Bongo Comics which covers the entire Simpson's franchise. Over 40 professional artists who will be thinking twice about purchasing a Companion 2 drawing tablet based on the experience I'm still in the middle of experiencing and who will probably tell their colleagues about the problems they saw one of their artist buddies have to go through should someone ask them if they think the cost of the Companion 2 is worth the investment or not. Not a good look Wacom.<br />
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I shall now stop updating this particular blog post before it becomes a candidate for a 4 part mini-series on pay TV. Once the replacement unit arrives and I've had a play with it for a while, I'll create a new blog post and hopefully I'll have something positive to say with a working CC2 in my hands.<br />
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Stay tuned for Part 2.<br />
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Update: 25th October 2015<br />
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The replacement unit review can be found <a href="http://artblogbyvince.blogspot.com/2015/10/wacom-cintiq-companion-2-replacement.html" target="_blank">here</a><br />
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<br />Vince Steelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15852291110577459994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6764193169707051061.post-70013063899744110882015-07-05T17:55:00.000+10:002015-07-05T17:55:08.080+10:00Commissioned Art: Star Trek: The Next Geriatric<!--Facebook Java setup-->
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Tim Sayre is becoming a bit of a well known face in the world of Art by Vince. Not only is he one of the Naked Tuesday ambassadors <a href="http://artblogbyvince.blogspot.com.au/2014/10/the-adam-hills-craig-coombes-naked-tuesday-story.html" target="_blank">who occasionally gets drawn for Craig Coombes</a>, but his lovely wife Geri has now ordered a sci-fi themed caricature drawing for two of his birthdays in a row. Last year I was commissioned to draw <a href="http://artblogbyvince.blogspot.com.au/2014/10/commissioned-art-doctor-who.html" target="_blank">Tim in a Dr Who theme</a>, which saw Tim regenerated from one of the Doctors' female sidekicks. This year the theme is from Star Trek: The Next Generation, with Tim playing the part of the new alien species on the block. I had some fun with this one. The background in the view screen is from the old Lost In Space TV series. There's a game of Space Invaders happening on one of the console screens, and Tim is comprised of a mash up between a Klingon, an Andorian, a Romulan and a Borg dressed in an Orkan space suit.
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For those who like to know the breakdown of the drawings, the details are as follows:
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The first thing I needed to do was create a background for the caricatures to blend in with.
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To add a bit of variety to the picture, a screen shot from the old Space Invaders arcade game was added to one of the viewing consoles.
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Next, I needed to add a caricature likeness of Patrick Stewart as Captain Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation
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Once these elements were complete, I could concentrate on creating an alien mashup version of Tim for the viewscreen image.<br />
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Finally, a screenshot of the deck of the Jupiter II from the Lost in Space TV series was added to the background of the viewscreen image and the drawing was ready for sending digitally to Geri's e-mail box so she could get it printed and ready for her hubby's Birthday.<br />
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The entire drawing was created digitally using <a href="http://my.smithmicro.com/manga-studio-5.html" target="_blank">Manga Studio 5</a>, and a basic <a href="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2012/06/dsc01079-1340027208.jpg" target="_blank">Bamboo Pen & Tablet from Wacom</a>.
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To order your own personalised caricature drawing for yourself, a loved one or a special friend, details can be found at the <a href="http://www.artbyvince.com.au" target="_blank">Art by Vince</a> website.
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The following artwork was commissioned in September 2014 by a friend who wished to give to her father-in-law a unique one-of-a-kind Christmas gift. Christmas has since been and gone and I can now post the image here for all to see without having to worry about spoiling the surprise for the recipient. To order your own caricature portrait for yourself, family or friends, full details can be found at <a href="http://www.artbyvince.com.au/" target="_blank">www.artbyvince.com.au</a>.<br />
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As previously <a href="http://artblogbyvince.blogspot.com.au/2014/11/support-your-local-aussie-newspaper-comic-strip-artist.html" target="_blank">blogged</a>, APN held an <a href="http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/more-puzzles-fewer-cartoons-your-apn-papers-2015/2460808/" target="_blank">online poll</a> last year to determine which three comic strips would be salvaged in their efforts to save dollars for their bean counters by removing three of the six comic strips they were currently paying for in favour of using the space for cheaper to purchase crossword and sudoku puzzles. Their explanation went as follows:<br />
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IF YOU'RE a brainteaser buff or partial to puzzles, we have good news for you.
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APN Australian Regional Media's newspapers are revamping its daily
puzzle and cartoons pages in the new year, more than doubling the number
of puzzles we run now.
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This is in response to comprehensive research with our readers, who are
telling us they want more caffeine-free ways to kickstart their brains
of a morning.
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This will mean you will soon have seven puzzles to give you a daily
mental workout, and your crossword clues will be a bit easier to read
thanks to their larger point size.
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As a result, we will be reducing the number of comic strips we offer each day from six to three.
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But because we believe in democracy, we're asking you to help us decide which comics stay and which ones go.
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At the moment we carry Garfield, Ginger Meggs, Insanity Streak, Swamp Classics, The Phantom and Overboard.
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After closing the poll a day earlier than had been advertised, the results were as follows:<br />
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Quite clearly, the voting public had chosen Australia's Insanity Streak at first place with 25% of the vote, closely followed by Australia's Ginger Meggs at 23% in second place, with Australia's Swamp Classics coming an equal third place with The Phantom from the USA at 18% each. Garfield from the USA had a dismally low 8% of the votes, followed lastly by Overboard, also from the USA, which had an even lower score of 6%.</div>
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So the voters had their say in the so called <i>democratic</i> vote and chose three Australian comic strips as their preferred selections for the new year. Democracy was then thrown out of the window when Jason Chatfield received an email about a week after the polls had closed to inform him that his Ginger Meggs strip would no longer be required. <br />
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Clearly, the poll didn't go the way that APN had planned. In a <a href="http://www.dailymercury.com.au/news/poll-vote-your-favourite-newspaper-comic/2421783/" target="_blank">test poll</a>, conducted via APN's Daily Mercury newspaper back in October, the results looked like this:</div>
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APN had simply assumed that once a poll was put into place which actually stated that three comics were going to get the shaft, that the results would be more or less the same as their initial test poll based on the readership of one of their most popular newspapers.</div>
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The test poll results were completely different in that Garfield was in equal first place with Insanity Streak, and Ginger Meggs had come in pathetically last with only 2% of the votes.</div>
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Firstly, the initial test poll was not implying that three comic strips were to be given the flick. So the only people who voted were those who thought it would be a bit of fun. There were therefore, considerably less people voting for their favourite comic strips while this poll was open, not to mention the fact that they had only brought it to the attention of the readers of one of their newspapers.</div>
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Secondly, the <i>democratic</i> poll that actually stated its sole purpose was to eliminate three comic strips at the end of the year, sent lovers of Australian comic strips into a frenzy. A call to arms was heard throughout the online community, especially amongst the many fans of each of the three Australian comic strips who were facing the possibility of never being able to see their favourite strip in newspaper print ever again. Understandably this meant that instead of a handful of readers giving their votes as happened in the test poll, people were now voting from around the country, and asking their friends to vote on their behalf, many of whom that weren't even living in areas that received print editions of APN newspapers.</div>
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APN, then cried foul and decided to base their decision on the original test poll, which certainly would not have represented the majority of those who voted within the APN readership areas.</div>
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APN had already made up their mind before putting up their <i>democratic</i> poll and were determined to rid themselves of at least one Australian comic strip before the voting had even started. Why? Because the overseas strips are cheaper to purchase due to the fact that they are distributed more widely around the world. They could have quite easily removed Swamp Classics based on the result of their survey, arguing that The Phantom had a few extra decimal points in its favour. Luckily for Gary Clark and for Swamp fans, they chose to base their decision on the test poll instead. Unlucky for Jason Chatfield and Ginger Meggs however, who has been removed from APN's list based on the results of a handful of people from a single newspaper readership who voted in the earlier test poll. Jason, in all his diplomatic wisdom, offered to let APN have the strip at a cheaper cost, but APN rejected his offer nonetheless. It was quite clear that they had already decided to remove Ginger Meggs before the definitive poll was even made live online.</div>
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So how does the new look comics/puzzle page look for APN? Below is a copy of the page as it appeared in the Sunshine Coast Daily on the 31st of December 2014:</div>
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The following image is how the comics/puzzle page looked on the following day, the 1st of January 2015 (also via the Sunshine Coast Daily):</div>
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Thank you APN. It's nice to know you're doing your bit to ensure the Australian comic strip becomes a thing of the past and that we will never see a new Newspaper comic strip emerge successfully from Australia ever again. </div>
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Recently, I blogged about an online poll that was being held by APN News and Media, which publishes daily newspapers from Mackay in
North Queensland to Clarence Valley in Northern New South Wales. The blog was entitled: <a href="http://artblogbyvince.blogspot.com.au/2014/11/support-your-local-aussie-newspaper-comic-strip-artist.html" target="_blank">Support your local Aussie newspaper comic strip artist, before it's too late and there are none left!!!</a> and went on to detail how APN was culling its single comics page, that is forced onto all of its separate newspapers regardless of the individual editor's wishes, from 6 comic strips down to just 3. Their reasoning for this is that they have done extensive research and discovered that their readers would prefer more puzzles and less comic strips which, when translated from bullshit into reality, means <i>we don't want to pay for quality Australian comic strips any more. We'd rather just keep the three cheaper overseas strips and pad the rest of the page out with even cheaper sudoku and crossword puzzles, regardless of what our readers want.</i> Case in point? First take a look at the results of the online poll, which they closed a day earlier than had been announced.<br />
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So how did the Australian content stack up? Insanity Streak came first place at 25%, Ginger Meggs came a close second at 23%, while Swamp Classics came an equal third place with the American produced Phantom comic strip. Garfield and Overboard didn't even come close at a dismal 8% and 6% of the votes respectively. All things being equal, you would expect that Insanity Streak and Ginger Meggs were safe from the cull with a possibility of Swamp being out done by the Phantom as the American strips are cheaper to purchase.<br />
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So imagine my surprise to learn that Jason Chatfield received an email about a week after the polls had closed to say that APN no longer required his services and were removing Ginger Meggs from their comic page line up.<br />
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Naturally, Jason assumed it was just a case of APN's bean counters saying they couldn't afford the Australian strips any more, so he offered to let them have the strip at a reduced rate. Instead of taking Jason up on the offer, APN decided to claim that the poll results were not accurate due to the amount of online rallying they had witnessed during the voting period. Erm.... if you're going to do an online poll, then of course people are going to ask for help to save the strips they love. What did they expect? Only people from their readership areas would be voting? Using that argument, it was a poll that was doomed to fail from the beginning. They also claim that there was a print poll where people could phone up, but no evidence has been found of this, and it is also unlikely that they'd have enough people phoning up in such a short amount of space to make much of a dent in the online poll results.<br />
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I have not heard if any of the other two Australian comic strips have survived the culling process or not. Gary Clark's wife and manager of Swamp comics, Yvonne, has told me she has not received any news from APN either way concerning her husband's creation. Yvonne has given me permission to quote her:<br />
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<span class="_5yl5" data-reactid=".13.$mid=11417671347586=2bbe01e67b882bbcf57.2:0.0.0.0.0"><span data-reactid=".13.$mid=11417671347586=2bbe01e67b882bbcf57.2:0.0.0.0.0.0"><span data-reactid=".13.$mid=11417671347586=2bbe01e67b882bbcf57.2:0.0.0.0.0.0.$end:0:$0:0">We've
had no notification from APN that Swamp has been dropped. I'm waiting to see if they make
an official announcement (as to) which three made the cut. </span></span></span><span class="_5yl5" data-reactid=".13.$mid=11417675366645=2c683176f46d0e76a14.2:0.0.0.0.0"><span data-reactid=".13.$mid=11417675366645=2c683176f46d0e76a14.2:0.0.0.0.0.0"><span data-reactid=".13.$mid=11417675366645=2c683176f46d0e76a14.2:0.0.0.0.0.0.$end:0:$0:0">We
are waiting for official confirmation that Swamp is in the mix for next
year. If an official
announcement is made by APN, I think we owe it to our fans to let them
know (either way) and thank them for their support.</span></span></span></blockquote>
So where does this leave the Australian comic strip industry now?<br />
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Even if it was just Ginger Meggs that got the chop and the other two strips survived, it's one less Australian comic strip artist who's getting published and one less that's getting paid a minuscule fee to provide a daily and Sunday comic strip for all of their fans. There aren't that many left in the pot to play Russian roulette with the next time one of the big three news print companies in Australia decide they'd like to save even more money by reducing the size of their comics page even further. It's not just APN that's doing this to the humble Australian cartoonist. News Corp and Fairfax are just as guilty with their own versions of the national comics page that is forced onto every editor of every newspaper they own in the country. Gone are the days when an editor could happily choose which comics were printed in the publication he or she was in charge of. The individual editors themselves aren't happy about it either, I've spoken to a few when I was trying to get my own comic strip onto the market. They have no choice but to do what the parent companies dictate. Never more will we ever see a new Australian comic strip in newspaper print. It would mean that one of the big three newspaper bosses would have to replace a strip that they're already using, and if your strip is unknown, there's no chance they'll even consider it. They're already going out of their way to remove the well established strips that have legions of loyal fans, so there's no hope at all for us newcomers. <a href="http://auspacmedia.com.au/listing/1560/BUSHCAMP_COMIC_STRIP" target="_blank">Auspac Media</a> happily took my own strip, <a href="http://www.bushcampcomics.com/" target="_blank">Bushcamp Comics</a>, to put in its database for potential sales in print media, but they have no one to market it to. The newspapers just aren't interested any more. There are currently <a href="http://auspacmedia.com.au/index.php?page_id=directory&cat=Comics&subcat=Australian_Comic_Strips&&perpage=50" target="_blank">28 Australian daily comic strips in Auspac Media's catalogue</a> (as of the time this blog was originally published), all ready to be printed via syndication, but how many are actually in print and earning a paltry income for the artists? You'd be lucky to find more than a few.<br />
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. If this mentality had existed 90 years ago, Ginger Megg's would never have had the opportunity to be put into newsprint. Firstly as a Sunday strip and then as a weekly strip, at the encouragement of a newspaper editor in both instances. Snake Tales was originally titled <i>The Old Timer</i> and was first published in The Daily Telegraph on 25 April 1974, because the newspaper editor liked what was offered to him and gave Allan Salisbury a go. Gary Clark's Swamp was first published in 1981 in the Sunshine Coast Daily, which is now living under the dictatorship of its parent company APN. The very same news company that is now in the process of seeing if it wants to ditch Swamp from the Sunshine Coast Daily in favour of a clearer to read and cheaper to purchase sudoku puzzle! There are other successful Australian comic strips that have built themselves a loyal fanbase and in some cases now have a cult like status amongst Australian culture. Heck, some of them even managed to crack the overseas market once they showed how successful they could be in their home country. And how did they all get so successful? Not only through lots of hard work, trying to come up with a new commercial quality strip for EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR in order to maintain their livelihood and to keep their legions of fans entertained, but initially because a newspaper editor gave them a go when the comic strip was still young and unknown and the cartoonist was out busting his or her guts to market it to any newspaper editor who would give them the time to see what they had to offer. In the process the editors gave the artists a fair chance of having a crack at making a living out of something that they were not only good at, but something that they were passionate about as well. Can you imagine a world that was never brightened by the daily antics of Snake, Ding Duck, Ginger Meggs, or Kool Roo (just to name a few)? Now imagine a new generation of children who grow up into adults never knowing an Australian comic strip apart from what they may see in archives on the internet, or the second hand antique book stores. There will never be a new Australian comic strip, so there will never be a new generation of kids who turn to the comics pages of their parents' newspapers and grow up being delighted by what the Australian comic strip artist has to offer. There will always be Garfield from the USA, and there will always be Peanuts reruns from the USA, but there will never be a new generation of Australian comic strips for them to grow up with, and that's a damn shame. If it was the television industry, the radio industry, or some other form of media industry in Australia, the government would have stepped in to say "Hey, you must produce at least this much Australian content so that Australians can have a fair go at working in your industry, both in entertainment, advertising and news content." but there are no such regulations for the news outlets in our country. And with all the bagging the current Australian government has been doing of the political cartoons that rightly parody and mock the stupidity of their policies and actions, it's unlikely the current government will even think about trying to help a newspaper cartoonist to stay in a job, let alone encourage any new ones into the picture to try and keep the Australian newspaper comic strip industry alive and make more generations of Australians happy to brighten their days with their favourite Aussie comic strip characters.<br />
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So what can be done about this? I asked the same question in my last blog and the answer is still the same. NOTHING! The bean counters have made up their minds and they don't care if it's destroying an age old tradition and killing off the daily comic strip cartoonists of our country. So make the most of the Australian comic strips while they still exist folks. Cherish them while they're still in print, what's left of them. It won't be long before they're just be a memory that we can tell our great grand-kids about.<br />
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I must give a big thank you to the newspaper editor of the Sunshine Coast Daily, whoever that was in 1981, for giving Gary Clark a crack at the Australian comic strip market. I'm a proud fan of Swamp Comics as are a great many other people who read his strip daily as it found its market and began appearing in different newspapers around the country. In the same paragraph, I must also give a big raspberry to Bryce Johns, the current Editorial Director of APN for going out of his way to destroy the very industry that has helped to fill the page of the most read newspaper section, alongside the front page section and the sports section in the history of Australian newspapers, the comics page. Enjoy your bigger sudoku puzzle Bryce, and your shrunken down Garfield strip that will probably be impossible to read anyway... while your newspapers are in print at least. I know of quite a few people who purchase their newspapers based on which comics are in them. It's one of the few things left that you print that people still prefer to read in print. I hope your bean counters prove useful when you're figuring out how to justify the cost of all your newspapers that people aren't interested in purchasing anymore because there's nothing in there they can't already get for free online via their smartphones and tablet devices on the way to work. You certainly won't be encouraging any kids to pick up your publications to have a squiz if there are no decent comic strips for them to look at, and they're the ones you'll be wishing were buying the newspapers eventually as they all grow up into adults looking for a way to look at the news. It's as simple as that.
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Vince Steelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15852291110577459994noreply@blogger.com0Hobart TAS, Australia-42.881903 147.32381399999997-43.627037 146.03292049999996 -42.136769 148.61470749999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6764193169707051061.post-42042027394955563822014-11-24T19:40:00.000+11:002017-12-11T09:14:06.725+11:00Support your local Aussie newspaper comic strip artist, before it's too late and there are none left!!! (UPDATED WITH RESULTS.)<!--Facebook Java setup-->
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In yet another crushing blow to the Australian Comic Strip industry, APN News and Media, which publishes daily newspapers from Mackay in North Queensland to Clarence Valley in Northern New South Wales is further reducing its comics section in favour of providing the cheaper option of printing puzzles.<br />
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In an article titled <a href="http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/more-puzzles-fewer-cartoons-your-apn-papers-2015/2460808/" target="_blank">More puzzles, fewer cartoons in your APN papers in 2015 </a>, their reasoning behind the latest round of cost cutting is as follows:<br />
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IF YOU'RE a brainteaser buff or partial to puzzles, we have good news for you.
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APN Australian Regional Media's newspapers are revamping its daily
puzzle and cartoons pages in the new year, more than doubling the number
of puzzles we run now.
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This is in response to comprehensive research with our readers, who are
telling us they want more caffeine-free ways to kickstart their brains
of a morning.
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This will mean you will soon have seven puzzles to give you a daily
mental workout, and your crossword clues will be a bit easier to read
thanks to their larger point size.
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As a result, we will be reducing the number of comic strips we offer each day from six to three.
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But because we believe in democracy, we're asking you to help us decide which comics stay and which ones go.
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At the moment we carry Garfield, Ginger Meggs, Insanity Streak, Swamp Classics, The Phantom and Overboard.
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To let us know your three preferences, you can vote in our online reader poll.
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Please register your votes by Saturday, November 29 (2014) and we'll let you know the outcome soon after.
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Quite simply, they're saying that their readers have told them that they don't want comics any more and would rather have an endless stream of sudoku and crossword puzzles. Personally, I believe that's a load of crap and they're just looking at new ways to save pennies for the benefit of their bean counters by replacing comic strips in favour of the cheaper puzzles.</div>
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A couple of years or so ago, the big three news print entities in Australia, APN, Fairfax, and News Corp, all seemed to have the same idea at the same time. Whereas each newspaper that they owned would originally have the comics hand-picked by each publication's editor, thereby giving a vast outlet for Australian comic strip artists to be able to have their works published, they all decided to cut costs by removing the editor's right to choose which comics were printed, and forced a single national comic strip page onto each newspaper that they owned. This meant that a great deal of well established comic strip artists, who had a loyal fanbase and were stalwarts in the industry, suddenly found themselves axed from the same publications that their loyal fanbase were getting their content from. So instead of having all of the successful Australian comic strips being printed daily in various newspapers, we suddenly had only 2 or 3 Australian comic strips for the entire country, depending on which news print entity owned the newspaper you were buying. Cheaper overseas comics were given preference over the Australian home grown favourites.</div>
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Now, just to add insult to injury, with APN now reducing the comics page from 6 strips per day to just 3 strips per day, they're making their readers choose which comics stay and which comics go.... So what do we have to choose from?</div>
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From the United States of America we have Garfield by Jim Davis' band of hired gag-writers and artists (Brett Koth and Gary Barker, plus various hired inkers), The Phantom by the late Lee Falk (now drawn by Paul Ryan and Terry Beatty), and Overboard by Chip Dunham.</div>
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From Australia we have Ginger Meggs by the late Jimmy Banks, (now under the skilful hand of Jason Chatfield), Swamp by Gary Clark and Insanity Streak by Tony Lopes... that's it. Gone are the days of Snake Tales by SOLs, Beyond the Black Stump by Sean Leahy, and Kool Roo by Peter Dare to mention a few. In no way will we ever get a new Australian made comic strip in the newspapers. It's hard enough for the established cartoonists to get published in the newspapers nowadays.</div>
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That's right! There will NEVER be a new Australian made comic strip in any of the major newspapers EVER again!!! When my own comic strip creation <a href="http://www.bushcampcomics.com/" target="_blank">Bushcamp Comics</a> was picked up by <a href="http://auspacmedia.com.au/listing/1560/BUSHCAMP_COMIC_STRIP" target="_blank">Auspac Media</a> they made it quite clear to me that they would happily put the comic strip on the books so they could show it to any print publications that came to them asking for new content, but the major newspapers were no longer looking for new comic strips and there was no point in them even bothering to market the strip to the major news print entities unless they asked for something new, which was also extremely unlikely. If this mentality of ignoring Australian comic strip artists had begun back in 1921, Ginger Meggs would never had seen the light of day past Jimmy Bancks'
drawing board. It would never have had the opportunity to be continued
for over 90 years at the hands of Ron Vivian, Lloyd Piper, James
Kemsley, and now Jason Chatfield. We would never have seen the likes of
Old Timer by SOLs which evolved into Snake Tales. The Australian comic
strip industry would simply stop as there would be no outlet for
anything new. In order to get your strip into the newspapers you'd first
have to convince the bean counters to drop one of their pre-selected
comics from the "National" comic page. Very unlikely seeing as you don't
have a loyal fan base yet. Even more unlikely considering the amount of
Australian comics strips that already had a huge and very loyal fan
base that were already given the shaft in favour of the cheaper imports. Now APN is going to halve it's daily comic strip count from 6 strips per day down to just 3, there's even less of an opportunity for the Australian comic strip artist to get into print media.</div>
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So what's going to happen after the voting process finishes? Quite simply put, 3 of their current comic strips will remain in print, whilst the other 3 get thrown out the window, never to see the light of day in an APN newspaper ever again. Of course, Fairfax and News Corp will no doubt follow suit after seeing how many beans APN has saved itself at the expense of 3 hardworking artists who manage to come up with something new DAILY!!! For EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR!!!!</div>
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<strike>With all this in mind, if you're reading this before the November 29 2014 deadline (Australian time), I urge you to follow the link to the voting page here:</strike><br />
<strike><a href="http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/polls/2014/11/21/which-comic-strip-do-you-most/" target="_blank">www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/polls/2014/11/21/which-comic-strip-do-you-most</a>,</strike><br />
<strike>and vote for the three Australian comic strips, to help salvage the livelihood of these great comic strip artists, if only until the next wave of cuts happens.</strike></div>
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At the time of publishing this blog page, the vote count was as follows:</div>
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Help do your bit. The Australian newspaper comic strip will most likely be killed off by the bean counters, but at least we can try and make it last just that little bit longer.<br />
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What can I do?<br />
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Nothing, short of complaining to APN, who will most likely not care anyway. Voting has closed (Early) <br />
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<strike>Vote for the 3 Australian comics at APN before the deadline and ask your friends to follow suit, then contact the editor of your local Australian daily newspaper to let them know you are disappointed with the way Australian comic strip artists are getting treated.</strike><br />
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<b>UPDATE: 28th November 2014 10:23PM Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time.</b><br />
The polling has closed early.<br />
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In a pathetic attempt to ensure they can get rid of at least one iconic Australian comic strip, APN has closed the voting process early. The final votes are as follows:<br />
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Insanity Streak and Ginger Meggs appear to be saved from the chop with 25.0% and 23.0% of the votes respectively. <br />
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Swamp and The Phantom appear to be tied in 3rd place at 18.0% each. So what does this mean? It means APN will most likely choose the cheaper option of the two which would no doubt be The Phantom, being an overseas strip.<br />
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Only time will tell. We now have to wait until APN make their announcement on which three comic strips will be in next years newspapers.<br />
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Interestingly enough, <a href="http://www.dailymercury.com.au/news/poll-vote-your-favourite-newspaper-comic/2421783/" target="_blank">The Daily Mercury conducted its own poll</a> about a month ago. Their results were remarkably different as can be seen below:<br />
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Just a reminder, the above screenshot is simply a comparison of a different poll about the same comics. The final result for the all important culling poll is as follows:<br />
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<li>Insanity Streak 25.0%</li>
<li>Ginger Meggs 23.0%</li>
<li>Swamp AND The Phantom 18.0%</li>
<li>Garfield 8.0%</li>
<li>Overboard 6.0%</li>
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For further information, please see the next blog:<br />
<a href="http://artblogbyvince.blogspot.com.au/2014/12/the-demise-of-australian-comic-strips.html" target="_blank">The Continuing Demise of the Australian Newspaper Comic Strip</a></div>
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Tim, a friend of mine who is an avid sci-fi fan, had a birthday coming up and his wife asked me if I could come up with a caricature portrait as a surprise gift from her. After exchanging a few private messages via Facebook, we both decided it should have a Doctor Who theme featuring one of his favourite Doctors. I then pitched the idea of her husband being a regenerated version of one of the Doctor's companions. After doing a little Facebook photo searching I came up with this caricature of the main subject:<br />
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Followed by some Google image searching to sort out a caricature of the supporting subject:<br />
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After completing the rough sketches, then digitally inking them using a Wacom Touch drawing tablet in Manga Studio 5, the digital colouring phase began.<br />
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The first step in the colouring process was to create a digital layer to place the flat colours onto.<br />
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As you can see, there is almost no shading. The shading layer will be added later. At this point I created a layer for the facial hair and started colouring the clothing a little.<br />
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Eventually I had the colours I liked in all the correct places. The next step was to add a shading layer and have some fun with the digital air-brush tool.<br />
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Once I was happy with the skin tones it was time to work on getting the
clothing looking like the material it was all supposed to be made from. For the denim jeans, a little speckling was added as well as some semi-opaque stitch lines. The shoes were airbrushed with shadows and highlights.<br />
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The clothing for the main subject was based on clothing as worn by the Doctor's companion. The reference photo I used is shown in the picture below.</div>
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After adding an image of the TARDIS and a background image from the town that my friend lived in, the only thing left was to create a logo, add a word balloon, and then scrawl my digital signature.</div>
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The digital image was then delivered via email, and my friends' wife organised to have it printed out for his birthday. He then happily posed for the following picture and managed to look more like his caricature than the original reference photo did. What a clever Tim!</div>
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