Comments on: Something by Alex Niño, Gilbert Monsanto

By: auggie

auggie — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:38:03 +0000

Oo, mi subject nga kami noon, LETTERING, talagang Castigo !mano-mano talaga. Nahasa din kami noon sa SPEEDBALL dahil sa exercises sa OLD ENGLISH. Buti na lang naimbento ang LETRASET. Pero nabitima rin ito ng Computer technology.

By: Rod Samonte

Rod Samonte — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:13:08 +0000

Auggie,
Buhay pa yata yung Romus ko. Magaling pang-letra.

JM,
Parusa nga yung handlettering. Lahat noon handlettering, at pag-final artwork na you use rubber cement to paste down types. Sarap ng mga computer ngayon.

Gerry,
Oo nga, Photoshop na. Tutal ipapadala mo rin lang as a digital file.
Rod

By: jose mari Lee

jose mari Lee — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:57:38 +0000

ROMUS di ko na naabutan iyon. ROTRING, Ko-hi-noor, staedtler ang mga naabutan kogn technical pens.

Sa Advertising noon ang gamit namin daily ay tempera at transparent water color.

With Photoshop, I bet the sales of tempera must have gone down to the dogs.

Noon, sa final artwork, puro pa compass at tech pen ang gamit. Letra, kinakamay namin iyon. Ayaw kasi ng hindi orig yung mga clients. Nahasa ako nang husto sa paggawa ng orig text na mano-mano.

Parusa ito kung sa point of view ng mga artists ngayon.

By: auggie

auggie — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:46:07 +0000

Gerry,
Meron pa namang puting showcard na binebenta di ba ?, pero pwede rin nga yung typewriter writing fluid.

Rod,

naalala ko na yung cheaper showcard noon, SANFORDS, at ang technical pen naman noon eh ROMUS, which was very crude…..

By: Gerry Alanguilan

Gerry Alanguilan — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:37:55 +0000

“Ngayon, ano na ba ang ginagamit na pang retouch ?”

Photoshop? he.he.

Actually sa totoo lang. Pag nagkakamali ako, minsan pinababayaan ko na lang, sa photoshop ko na lang aayusin. Pero if it bothers me at gusto ko sa papel ayusin, ginagamitan ko ng water based typing correction fluid.

By: auggie

auggie — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:21:46 +0000

Reno/Rod,

Yung Showcard is actually, TEMPERA COLORS, yun ang standard noon. Yung pang retoke, eh yung puti. Ang showcard/tempera eh opaque ang effect as against watercolor na manipis at transparent. Pwede silang paghaluin as in mixed media. GRUMBACHER at PRANG ang sikat noon, altho merong mas cheaper na showcard, parang Corona yata, nakalimutan ko na. extremely affordable ang mga ito noong araw.

Ngayon, ano na ba ang ginagamit na pang retouch ?

By: Rod Samonte

Rod Samonte — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:14:43 +0000

More on Shocard or Poster colors. Actually, it skip my mind, they’re TEMPERA colors. Grumbacher and other brands made tempera colors. However, even when when we were using Grumbacher or other brands of tempera, the name Shocard was used. I suppose that’s similar to shaving blade being called Gilette, or toothpaste, Colgate.
Rod

By: Rod Samonte

Rod Samonte — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:13:09 +0000

Reno,
Tama si Gerry. Shocard nga yata ang pangalan , and I think it was mainly made by Grumbacher. Wala pang mga Japanese brands noon. Just like acrylic now, and you can buy the full spectrum of colors, and it was water soluble, but unlike acrylic it was not waterproof when it dries. Since it was opaque and water soluble, the white was great for retouching comics, and a good brand will not crack, when you ink over it. It was actually a type of poster color, used by all illustrators at that time in the 60s to 70s, I guess, until, acrylics was invented. It was what we used in school also for our projects, and at the start of school you’re required to buy a set of Shocard colors and brushes. I used to work in an advertising agency and this was the standard coloring material we used for all illustrations, sometimes combining it with Prang water color.
I guess it disappeared once acrylic became popular.

Auggie,
I remember that technique of cutting the very tip of the Chinese brush with a sharp blade, para hindi matulis na matulis and dulo. Can’t remember who taught me now. Also add water to your Higgins India Ink para madulas ang hagod sa cartolina. That’s why many of the originals from that period, the black areas weren’t black-black. But they said it didn’t matter when it was photograph for reproduction, as they will do it in high-contrast.
Rod

By: Gerry Alanguilan

Gerry Alanguilan — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:18:46 +0000

Reno, sige dalhin ko sa FCBD.

As for showcard, brand sya ng white paint na ang pangalan ay “Shōcard”. :)

By: Reno

Reno — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:09:02 +0000

Gerry… kung madala mo sa Free Comic Book Day sa Comic Odyssey, e di maigi. :)

Rod… one of the things I was wondering about since I started drawing komiks in the late 80s is why they called white correction paint “showcard.” Was this what it was originally called?