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Just a ransom anthro :P What math class does.
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A couple of possibilities that I have are:
Do you own some shop work lights? Two setup to shine down at 45 degree angles from the left and right can do wonders for improving the quality of the picture. The bright light will also help improve your depth of field.
If you have one of those photography kits for selling things on eBay, they also work well.
I stopped ny your Mother's strip, It looks interesting, I am going to add it to my Belfry Web Comics list and peruse it some later.
http://www.cyberguys.com/product-details/?productid=16007
http://www.cyberguys.com/product-details/?productid=13214
http://www.cyberguys.com/product-details/?productid=66319
http://www.cyberguys.com/product-details/?productid=66338
Also, on ebay you can probably find some good deals on flatbed scanners (worth keeping an eye on, at least).
http://www.ebay.com/sch/Scanners-/11205/i.html?Type=Flatbed%2520Scanner&_dmpt=US_Scanners&rt=nc&LH_BIN=1
I've got an old flatbed scanner (a Relisys Reli 2412) that was working fine when I quit using it, but it requires a SCSI host card (which I have a couple in my used parts collection) and the drivers I have for it were for Windows NT4 Workstation (might work with Windows 2000)...so that probably won't do you any good, otherwise I'd give it to you (it's just collecting dust). :(
[b]WARNING! WARNING! Will Robinson! The Engineer has an IDEA![/b]
Go to Wal-Mart (or a local hardware / farm & home store) and get a couple of "brood lights" - they're usually low cost (a few $ at most), and then get a couple of bulbs (GE Reveal halogen, A19 General Purpose, 72 Watts, 1120 lumens, would be great as they provide a nice crisp white light). If you rig up something using an old white sheet (take a look at those items from Cyberguys for the idea), that will probably do just as well and for a lot less. As SMWolf said, put the lights at a 45 degree angle on either side of your setup. You could make a simple little frame using some 1/4" - 3/8" diameter wooden dowel rods or something similar (might be able to find them at a hardware store, or at an art supply store, such as Hobby Lobby), or maybe use some smaller diameter PVC pipe (1/2" maybe) and some 90 deg elbows and some "tees" (if you don't glue them together, or at least not all of them, you would be able to take it apart to put into a bag for storage). I can draw you out a picture of what I'm thinking and post it -- in fact, I could make one and show step-by-step photos and give a list of materials so anyone could make their own.
And to think I came up with that before I've even had my first cup of coffee for the day! (Shocking, eh?) :O
[b]Engineering definition:[/b]
"Coffee: a mechanism for converting ideas into designs.
Have a friend in Belarus who sent me a couple of text messages on my cell phone last night after I went to bed...wanted to know if I was "in any storm" (meaning hurricane Sandy). I guess she forgot that I'm in Missouri and in the middle of the U.S., and over 1,000 miles away from the east coast...and that she's 8 hours ahead of me.
As another friend of mine (who lives in Tambov, Russia) says, [b]COFFEE!!! COFFEE!!! COFFEE!!![/b] :P
Great job on the drawing. :) You did really great on the detailing and shading. :D
Math was my least favorite subject...but somehow I ended up being fairly good in it. I guess the stranger it got, the better I liked it (Calculus 1 - "C", Calculus 2 - "B", Calculus 3 - "A", Differential Equations - "A" (4.0)" I've had a lot more than that, but it should give you an idea). Now, I can't hardly add a bunch of numbers without a calculator, but I can work 2nd Order Partial Derivatives in my head. Go figure. :P