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Title: help! (trying to find a particular comic)
Post by: icarus on August 01, 2011, 12:52:25 PM
i'm trying to find the DMFA comic (i think it was a questions from readers strip) where amber explained "artist-vision" where all you see are the flaws.

a kid i know (she just graduated the school i work at) is entering her "i see all my flaws oh god it's horrible" phase and i wanted to share it with her to show how it's a normal, healthy part of becoming an artist. but the DMFA archives are SO HUGE D:

help me, DMFA forum! help me help the 8th grader!
Title: Re: help! (trying to find a particular comic)
Post by: icarus on August 01, 2011, 01:20:36 PM
disregard this - after much hunting with a buddy, it was located.

strip 672! (http://missmab.com/Comics/Vol_672.php)
Title: Re: help! (trying to find a particular comic)
Post by: Naldru on August 01, 2011, 01:31:53 PM
Rats.  You beat me by five minutes
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There are a few techniques that may prove useful.

If you look at  https://serialist.net/archive/1132 (https://serialist.net/archive/1132), it has all of the archive table of contents pages on one page.  You can search for text.

In a major "Doh" moment, I also realized that googling DMFA artist vision would have found the page.
Title: Re: help! (trying to find a particular comic)
Post by: llearch n'n'daCorna on August 01, 2011, 03:32:21 PM
Glad you found it, icarus. Someone, somewhere, has a searchable index of the strips. I need to update my own collection of strip text, though - it's about 200 strips out of date...
Title: Re: help! (trying to find a particular comic)
Post by: icarus on August 02, 2011, 08:18:17 AM
it's still appriciated :> it took me and a friend (him reading backwards, me reading forwards) a little while to locate it...i don't know why neither of us thought to google :B

i'd link to the student's deviantart, but i dunno if people would be gentle or not. she only just got her first scanner and she's still in her 'awkwardly eyeballing other people's art' phase.
Title: Re: help! (trying to find a particular comic)
Post by: justacritic on August 02, 2011, 09:58:08 AM
That's not too bad, as long as she's trying eyeballing other styles besides only one artist.
Eventually she should be able to find her own style :mowcookie
Title: Re: help! (trying to find a particular comic)
Post by: icarus on August 02, 2011, 03:59:51 PM
she's a good kid, she mostly eyeballs pokemon/zelda/other anime art.
Title: Re: help! (trying to find a particular comic)
Post by: Sofox on August 03, 2011, 06:49:16 PM
The dialogue searcher is here: http://www.littlelevers.com/dmfa/dmfasearch.php
Whenever I want it, I just google "dmfa dialogue search" and it give me the Wiki page that links to it.