Contemplating from afar

One more preview; and it might be the last one if there is no more updates, as we getting closer to the first Comiket day. My French translation is now available at Doujinsuki. Now everyone I know has put their own articles for the upcoming Comiket, and while there is a redundancy in the information, it’s interesting to see how everyone cover it and the circle they are interested in. Also, Crescent Shop is closed until the 2nd, but I’m too lazy to make a deposit to another deputy, so I guess I will have to wait. Hoefully, I just put my pre-order before they closed ^^. Now it seems that for this third preview, I have quite a number of well known artist this time. Oh and quick warning, this post start with a pantsu collection.
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It’s that time of the year again! I first didn’t plan to do any preview for this upcoming Comiket since icie did it for each Comiket with plenty of details and circle, which I don’t always follow. My scanlation teammate did it as well, so it would be quite redundant. But I was contacted recently by Fettgans @ Doujinsuki and asked if I wanted to promote doujinshi in France. This is something which I would like to do, and is the primary reason I will do the preview. While the French translation will be aimed at a broader audience, the one I will put here in English will be more personal and I won’t bother people with details. I will also split these preview in several part as we are in the middle of the updating period meaning not everyone has information about their release. A change from previous update is also the use of Pixiv to spread the update. It’s going to be in random order, and I must remind that I don’t speak Japanese.
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Today, most artist use computer to create their artwork. Artbooks are, as much as it might seems derogative, an industrial product, printed in a certain quantity. Quality is affected as soon as it’s printed, and I will explain how in this article. There are several steps on the road to printing, but the major two are the drawing and the printing itself which I will try to explain in-depth, though I can’t guarantee the accuracy of my information. I will also provide several reference to artists and artbooks to illustrate the technical aspect. This is the first article in a serie of 4, as it’s a bit too long for one post.

The road start from the white paper, and I will go until it get digitalized. Second article will be about colors on screen, then colors in printing, and finally paper and screening. I’m also introducing the Shadowbox on the blog since the Lightbox didn’t work. To get the full size of an image, you will have first to click on it, then save the image on your computer.

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