Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

>> [I was actually toying with the idea of making a web comic of my own. 
>> Now I see what an absurd idea that is.]
> 
> Oh cmon, you don't need to have CAD's artistic quality. Can you draw 
> comics as good as xkcd?

You laugh, but take a closer look for a moment.

XKCD is a comic featuring only stick figures. With NO FREAKIN' FACES! 
And yet, they manage to convey emotion. All using nothing but body 
language. From bodies make out of black lines on a white background.

If you stop and think about all that for a moment, you'll realise that 
actually, XKCD is *way* harder than it looks!

> Well, that was another comment he got often.
> "You're a damned perfectionist you know that...?"

LOL! Well, the final results *do* look pretty damn good, no? ;-)

[Actually, it's quite interesting to compare, say, today's comic to 
comic #1. There's quite a bit difference in art style. It changed over 
the years, really gradually, but if you compare the two endpoints it's 
quite striking. Oh yeah, and Lilah in particular looks a lot less geeky 
than she used to...]

>> 4. Woah, that's A LOT of levels of shading!
> 
> Lots of people noticed details while watching the video that they had 
> never noticed on the comics themselves.

I had noticed 2 levels of shading. Apparently there's actually 3 - 
there's a really thin line of light as well as the more obvious dark 
patches. And the shading on the tree is just... wow.

>> 6. This guy clearly has more talent in his left toenail than I have in 
>> my entire body. Even if I somehow purchased the hardware and software 
>> that he has, I wouldn't know what to do with it. Just... wow. I should 
>> go away and be quiet now...
> 
> Challenge him in Haskell programming?
> 
> Different people have *different* skills.

Hmm... I suspect I might get 0wned at that too. :-S

Never challenge anybody to anything. You end up loosing. And then you 
look very stupid.

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