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Drawing cartoons on TabletPCBlogs

Now that I've been using ink on TabletPCBlogs for a little while I've been thinking quite a bit about ways to make the experience even better--for the content creators as well as the readers.

One thought I've had is to create a facade and custom drawing panels that are geared towards cartoons and alternatively postcard-sized sketches.



For instance, if there was a blog dedicated only to cartoon drawing would it bring in a new group of readers and Tableteers? I think so. And what might a site like this be like? I envision a blog with a hefty ink drawing app that comes with all the basic drawing tools you need to create a nice cartoon. I've experimented with a standalone app in the past and now I'm thinking of resurrecting it so that it can be hosted in a content management system. Since I have a decidedly Tablet PC-bent I'm thinking of gearing the original drawing tools around ink and the Tablet PC, but there's reason the implementation couldn't be more generic. I've learned from other projects, for instance, that to draw the greatest audience you need to be able to support non-Tablet people.

I've also been thinking about what recognition there should be when drawing. In the case of cartoons, "automatic" extraction of captions might be useful. In the case of pure ink sketches reco isn't needed. What makes sense is going to depend on what the application is.

Plenty of food for thought. Ideas anyone?
Published Wednesday, November 16, 2005 1:27 PM by LorenHeiny

Comments

 

randomelements said:

Interesting idea and it would definitely open up the area of interest.

On the subject of captions it would be cool to have pre-built caption shapes that you could insert and size as required (like circles, squares etc. in normal art apps). These could be used by tableteers and non-tableteers alike.
November 16, 2005 2:21 PM
 

LorenHeiny said:

Your idea of having pre-built caption shapes is a good one. Not only would it help to make things look better, it would also define a space where reco might be limited to.

Loren
November 16, 2005 2:54 PM
 

brehloi said:

I think your plans are quite ok and also like the idear of default shapes. One thing I really miss in this is the ability of commenting in ink also.
November 21, 2005 7:44 PM
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