Just drawing and coloring

Today I've been working on drawing my first comic strip for some time.  I'm drawing it on the computer, in Corel Painter 11, and have yet to decide if I prefer that to drawing directly on paper!  The pen and tablet technology these days, while vastly improved over what was available a decade ago, are still not as precise as a real pencil and dip pen.  


Also I need to decide if coloring the strip is a good idea.  I'm so used to reading the old fashioned comic strips in black and white, that I wonder if the color is just a secondary consideration.  It's the characters and the idea that count, and if the color in strips is not going to be done in a beautifully detailed manner, then maybe it's best left out.  On the other hand, even flat colors can add a type of 3d depth, so I do lean in favor of it overall.  Plus it's more current with the contemporary style of comic strips.  


I have a cast of characters which I invented a long time ago, which always appear in my writing and comic strips.  I feel there's a story to be told with these characters, but I always debate if that should be in the form of a novel, or through comic strips.  There was a day when I couldn't imagine writing 4-panel comic strips, because I always considered my ideas to be lacking in brevity.  I drew cartoons as a youngster, but they were typically long, drawn out affairs, covering dozens of pages.  I think it was something of an accomplishment when I decided that I was able to write the short comic strips!


Enough for today.  I'll do more doodling and pondering tomorrow...