Profile for Krakaboom - Power Struggle!

Krakaboom aka Justin is a 34.84 year old boy, has been a member since December 3, 2006, has scored 720 submissions, giving an average score of 2.41.

URL: http://krakaboomer at hotmail dot com

Feb 05 '09 by Krakaboom

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Power Struggle!

Subbed! Thanks for all the help!

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So.... what do you think?

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Colouring now. I might try it with more halftones, and possibly distress the whole image at the end, though that might make the image a little too busy.

Any feedback?

Colouring - Stage 1

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I've cleaned up the drawing and I'm thinking there's not much to be gained by vectorising it - livetrace really messes it up, and I can colour it more easily in Photoshop.

So for now, this is what it looks like. How does it look?

B&W Linework

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Just scanned this in from my sketch book. Vectoring it would take a long time - mainly cos I'm SLOW - so I might do it in Photoshop, which isn't ideal.

But first of all, I'd like to know if I should bother! All opinions, suggestions and comments gratefully received :)

Original sketch:

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westicles on Feb 05 '09 at 12:11am

Very funny idea.

Bio-bot 9000 on Feb 05 '09 at 12:13am

until i saw the chair thought bubble, i didnt think it was that good of a concept, but i think it's totally worth it. the robot butler seems somewhat anachronistic, so maybe make the guy in futuristic clothes to give it more internal cohesiveness?

olie! on Feb 05 '09 at 12:16am

Haha! That's great! DO IT!!!

Krimson on Feb 05 '09 at 12:19am

make it obvious that it is the chair's thoughts and not just those of the man, and then I say run with. (maybe 50's housewife rather than robot?)

CallMeSteven on Feb 05 '09 at 12:28am

what krimson said, but I like the robo maid

Krakaboom on Feb 05 '09 at 12:31am

Thanks guys!

Biobot: I was in fact thinking of making it look even more old-fashioned, with a floral pattern on the chair. You could be right though... maybe I should make this futuristic - but then I'd need to make the chair all modern and iPod like.

Krimson: I'll put the second thought bubble a little lower - I'd run out of space in my sketchbook! - so that should help a bit. And I'm not going to risk the wrath of feminists by making a woman do that!

againstbound on Feb 05 '09 at 12:48am

What if instead of making the bubble lower you move it to the left?

againstbound on Feb 05 '09 at 12:49am

And instead of vectorizing you could always livetrace (that's what us vector noobs do9, besides it already looks clean, so the livetrace would just tighten up things.

Krakaboom on Feb 05 '09 at 1:02am

I'll definitely move the bubble lower, but will have to experiment for the best place.

I thought of livetracing, but this could make the colouring very difficult - the shapes all come out funny, and selecting the right bits would be a total nightmare.

Krakaboom on Feb 05 '09 at 3:51am

Man the vectoring is soooo tedious.

FRICKINAWESOME on Feb 05 '09 at 4:33am

amazing man! I was like Bio-Bot going, "eh" at the concept until i scrolled down and saw the chair bubble and that eh turned to AHHHHHHHmazing! Really good stuff, vector it up!

FRICKINAWESOME on Feb 05 '09 at 4:33am

also, i'd have a spilled cup of tea and/or the broken pot in the bubble of the chair winning all.

badbasilisk on Feb 05 '09 at 4:35am

man - you can put this in a vector in 5 minutes

Krakaboom on Feb 05 '09 at 2:49pm

Thanks Evan - I've added the spilt cup!

Badbasilisk - that's cos you're much better at vectorising than me!

TheInfamousBaka on Feb 05 '09 at 2:54pm

This is awesome. :) There's a plugin called silhouette for Illustrator that does a bit of a better job than livetrace when it comes to black and white lineart like that.

Check it out at Silhouette

Ta da!

againstbound on Feb 05 '09 at 2:56pm

I thought of livetracing, but this could make the colouring very difficult - the shapes all come out funny, and selecting the right bits would be a total nightmare.

Well, you have to play around with the settings to get what you want. And are you having different outline areas colored different or something? I'm not sure I ubderstand how it would be difficult.

davidfromdallas on Feb 05 '09 at 2:58pm

great idea. especially if you do it in an old-timey cartoon instruction feel. can't wait!

Krakaboom on Feb 05 '09 at 3:25pm

Baka - I downloaded that, but when I use it, it turns everything into great big black blobs, and I can't figure out how to change the settings.

Hector: What settings do you use? Cos when I livetrace, it turns everything wavy, I lose a lot of the details, and worst of all, everything is converted to a fill, so for example, every single segment in the robot's arms is an individual fill, every part of the chair is a separate fill, and so on. To colour the chair I gotta select like, 5 different bits. I guess I'm just not that familiar with livetrace!

Krakaboom on Feb 05 '09 at 3:26pm

And thanks David - it's the look I've got in mind as well, but I'm not sure I know how to pull it off!

TheInfamousBaka on Feb 05 '09 at 3:27pm

You just don't have very good luck with illustrator it seems. I used Silhouette on one of my more detailed submissions, and it turned out really well! :( Sucks it doesn't work for you.

Tutorial

This is a great guide for using the plug-in if you feel like playing with it anymore. This guy's a vector master.

Krakaboom on Feb 05 '09 at 6:56pm

Heh - I'm really not used to livetracing anything at all! After going through that tutorial Silhouette seems to work better now, but it still only gives me black outlines, with no fill - which is no good for me.

Anyway, I'm doing OK with Photoshop, I think. Just gotta work on the colour scheme. Roght now everything's quite muted - any opinions?

Krakaboom on Feb 05 '09 at 9:19pm

Still colouring :)

babajoe99 on Feb 05 '09 at 9:21pm

The chair thought bubble really made this for me :)

Krakaboom on Feb 05 '09 at 9:41pm

Thanks babajoe :)

funkie fresh on Feb 05 '09 at 9:42pm

the chair made me laugh. go chair!

bsweber on Feb 05 '09 at 9:45pm

hahah looking good dude

yeohgh on Feb 05 '09 at 9:50pm

GO chair too,,,,this really make me laugh and LOVE IT!!!! awesomeeee!!!!

platinum on Feb 05 '09 at 9:58pm

hahaha this is great!!! The colouring looks good to me.

stalliongsta on Feb 05 '09 at 9:58pm

the chair totally makes it. i can't wait to 5$ this.

i'm not sure why the robot is still wearing his apron in his fantasy. seems like the human should be wearing it. but aside from that, i love it!

Krakaboom on Feb 06 '09 at 10:04am

Thanks guys!

Stallion: Very good point, and I've taken off the apron and put it on the chap. Thank you!

TheInfamousBaka on Feb 06 '09 at 10:06am

Love the colors you used. :) Even if you couldn't get the vector stuff to work, it still looks super awesome in Photoshop. Can't wait to see this on a tee template!

Krakaboom on Feb 06 '09 at 10:43am

Thanks Baka - and I've put it on one already :)

lordog on Feb 06 '09 at 10:47am

hahaha, the chair is awesome! nice one!

davidfromdallas on Feb 06 '09 at 10:50am

lookin nice

davidfromdallas on Feb 06 '09 at 10:51am

and that robot is perfect

TheInfamousBaka on Feb 06 '09 at 10:51am

Looks great! :D Sub it!

Krakaboom on Feb 06 '09 at 11:13am

Thanks guys. I hope the colours aren't too subdued - I usually use far stronger shades on my subs!

Krakaboom on Feb 06 '09 at 12:06pm

I think I still need to work on the man's face a bit :)

the czar on Feb 06 '09 at 12:10pm

Very funny, I do think that the robot's face looks a little weird in the under the chair part. I think the neck ring kinda makes him to seem to be smiling

Krakaboom on Feb 06 '09 at 12:46pm

Thanks Czar! Maybe I've been staring at it for too long but I can't see it! Anyone else find that as well?