Koremyth

Hey, thought I would post a new journal entry since it's been awhile :) I haven't been very good about updating here on DA, but I update my blog more regularly and I'm about to start a tumblr, too, so if you want to see some more stuff (and sketches and things that I don't post on DA) then check out one of my blogs: My blogger blog: http://amandasketches.blogspot.com/ my tumblr blog (just started so nothing there yet, but stay tuned): http://amandaho.tumblr.com/

I've read manga since I was a kid, but it wasn't until the past couple of years that I started reading western comics. I always thought that all western comics were just superhero stuff, but I've realized that there are all kinds of good comics out there now (not that superhero stuff is bad, just not my cup of tea most of the time). Anyway, I know a lot of people who only read western comics, or who only read manga (or neither!), and I think that's a shame because there are a lot of good things about both kinds of comics, but I think that you have to get past certain conventions in either manga or western comics when you go from reading one

I could tell that my monitor had been getting very out of wack over the past few years I had it, so I finally invested in a colorimeter and got myself an X-rite Eye-one Display 2 (yeah long title). The difference was huge after calibrating my monitor. Not only was it way too blue, it was too bright and the contrast was off. Hopefully my more recent stuff will look more accurate now (unless everyone else has bad monitors, too, or maybe just calibrates them differently). Digital art is kind of funny that way--there is no original to look at. I'll never really know what exactly anything I paint on the computer looks like. But the pros of course