SFX can quickly be spruced up with a Gradient Fill:




Don't forget that you can change the angle of the Fill:




You can spiff it up still further by adding an inline:



I kept an eye out for this and notice the gradient seems to go in the direction of action (light to dark), so with someone being shot from the readers point of view it was above the person being shot and the gradient went from top to bottom. Have you got an example where a radial film might work?

That inner stroke is nice touch too - possibly not something to overuse but if you need to turn it up to 11 for something special you've got that bad boy in your back pocket

I kept an eye out for this and notice the gradient seems to go in the direction of action (light to dark), so with someone being shot from the readers point of view it was above the person being shot and the gradient went from top to bottom. Have you got an example where a radial film might work?

In other news- I've been offered work by another comics comp- does that make me a pro? [drunk as fuck]

Hey, I got a couple of questions...

I've just started using illustrator to letter comics. I seem to have the general idea of what has to be done, but a few things really irk me.

In other news- I've been offered work by another comics comp- does that make me a pro? [drunk as fuck]

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I can't find this menu to give me sharp points on the edges, rather than curvy ones:



also, the square balloons for 2000ad robots...
I can't find this tab for converting the anchor points to flatten the corners...

Soon you'll all be too famous to talk to us little people,

Eh? None of those things sound like Illustrator's standard behaviour! The stroke and fill options should serve all the necessary purposes. I have to say that -- in fifteen years of using Illustrator -- I've never used the Paint Bucket tool for anything.

The whole point of Illustrator is that it's vector rather than bitmap based, so nothing should ever be jaggy. Can you help me out? If you follow through the steps I've described upthread, where does it all start to go a bit Pete?

I think the problems I'm having come down to not having worked out my working process properly.