Thanks for all the great info! You really went out of your way and even highlighted the important stuff. I'm deffinitly going to refer to your post while I shop and consider a tablet. Oh and thanks for the PSG Art Tutorial link. I've added it to my art bookmarks.

If you get into pixel art you should consider trying animated gifs. Since pixel art uses so few pixels it's fun and fast to make animated characters. It'sa  great way to try out animation without getting in over your head, if your interested.

Here's some of my pixel art from some of my games:

Magic Star Night

Panic! on Planet Space Cucumber

Halo Gallant Girl (Game Gear) & Halo Gallant Belle (Gameboy)

Left 1 Alive

thanks! I used Mayas cell shading with a cup of PS and a pinch of Fireworks for both of them :)

your Pies look really nice and tasty!

good to see everyones artwork,keep it up,i love looking at artwork from fantasy/sci-fi worlds it really is amazing what people can do out there

When I was in college I worked for the newspaper as the Production Manager. I decided to run a "University Life" type of comic in the style of the classic "The Far Side". I called it Eastward Bound because it took place on a fictionalized Eastern Oregon University campus. After a year I redesigned the series with fixed characters as a roomate comedy comic strip about dorm life. Kind of like an "Odd Couple" with video games and homework.

Here's some of the more video game related ones:

Those are pretty funny. :) Especially the comic strips. lol

Yeah, they're actually pretty cool.

Thanks. I animated a bunch of the comic strips and recorded voices. Maybe I'll post some of those. I think they work better as short toons. To make the comic physicaly fit in the school newspaper I was very limited in how much dialog I could wright. Also with animated cartoons you can tweek the comedic timing. With comic strips all you can do is set up a joke and hope that the punch line is funny enough to get a chuckle.

Comedy is really hard, especialy when you trying to make it relatable to a general audience.

Please do. You've a knack for writing comedy, and I find your comics oddly nostalgic, so I'd love to see them animated. :D

I agree that timing is everything with comedy. An awful joke can be funny with the right delivery, and vice versa. I do feel that comic writers can exhert a certain level of control over comedic timing, though. For example, a number of comedy manga writers repeat frames to indicate a pause, or "draw out" certain actions/reactions to control the way the reader approaches the page, etc, and online comics like Looking For Group and 8-Bit Theatre do a good job of pulling you into the flow of the joke. Then again, I guess none of that is really possible with the space limitations of comic strips in newspaper publications.

Even though I'm not into ponies anymore, here is my most recent work:

Gimp taught me a lot. Especially layering techniques.

Here's another:

Nice work. Did you use vectors or free hand it? I love using vectors because you can so easily modify the shape.

Now that you've learned how to use layers, loook into masks and adjustment layers. They will blow your mind!