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Comic Report #68.1 - My Line Of Work

Hello!  This has been a busy week for me, but I'm happy to have a substantial update for you today! There's a little bit to share so I'm gonna just jump right into it.

Sometimes when I'm working on comics I also need to supplement my work with other work, so I'll hop back and forth between projects.  I'll usua...

Comic Report #68 - Thumbs Up

Hello again!  It's been a half-week since the previous page went up so today's update is a bit different from usual.  Normally if I don't have enough time to sketch a whole page between an update and a Friday I'll just do a gamedev post since that is easier to make small incremental changes on that end but I've been...

Comic Report #67.2 - Packed In

Hello again!  Here is the textless page real quick before I finish lettering and post the comic to the site.  I'll make this write-up short so I can get right back to work.

Now that the whole background of characters in that fifth panel are drawn in the crowd looks a lot more impressive.  I tried to refer...

Comic Report #67.1 - Work The Crowd

Hello again!  This week I made progress on the next page, inking, flatting and making my 80% detail pass on the first half of the comic.  I expect I'll be able to have this page finished by the end of this weekend so please look forward to that!

For a lot of the comic living characters have generally been sign...

Comic Report #67 - The Lads

Hello again!  For this week's work report I got the sketch phase of the next comic page all drawn up and ready to ink.  Since I don't have as many obligations on my plate at the moment I'd like to push forward and try to get another page up as quick as I can.  At my usual pace I can jump from pencils to a finis...

Comic Report #66.2 - Dramatic Entrance

Hello!  Here is the textless page for your enjoyment.  It's about 4:30am local time as I type this, I'd like to get the word bubbles in and put the page up before going to bed so I'll make this post nice and short.

When I was planning these post-600 pages I wanted a shot that let me draw the back-slash-front o...

Comic Report #66.1 - Juiced Up

Hello again!  This week I've made a good bit of progress on the next page.  I expect to have this page finished by the end of the weekend, or Monday at the latest, so keep an eye out for that.  But for now I'll talk about what I've been doing on this page so far, so let's jump right into that.

This scene ...

Comic Report #66 - Quartets

Hello!  This week has been a busy one for me.  I took a bit of time to tie up some loose ends with my gamedev responsibilities and then got to work on the next comic page.  A fun note about the gamedev items: I've drawn everything I need to draw for the next milestone demo we're working on, so any other gamedev...

Comic Report #65.2 - Family Reunion

Hello!  Here's the textless version of the next page!  It's pretty late right now but I want to get this page finished and posted before I sleep so I'm gonna be quick with the text post.

One of the big things I mentioned I was struggling with was how to render a nice daylight sky. I think during this phase the...

Comic Report #65.1 -

Hello!  Here's the progress on the next page.  Since I'm on the other side of a few key moments in the comic this week I'm going to write a little bit about the art challenges I've had in the past and what I'm planning to work on moving forward in the comic.

This week I got my page inked, which is always a bit...

Comic Report #65 - The Gang's All Here

So I gotta say, since around late April/early May I've been more or less nonstop working on animation, either for comics, games or a part-time side job I've been doing (top secret), it's been nonstop making components to moving pictures.  With 600 in the tank, I'm relieved to actually be able to sit down and draw just pl...

Comic Report #64.4 - The Big Finale

Hello!  I just want to make a real quick post about the next update.  I am in a home-stretch right now and I think either tonight, or tomorrow, but probably tonight, I can have this page finished and posted.  To give myself as much time and energy as I can to achieve this, rather than break down the remaining p...

Comic Report #64.3 - The Long Road

When I take a long time to make something like this I sometimes feel guilty about how long it takes to put together, but when I step back from my workspace I can see that the long work time is because of how many small moving parts there are, and they all take time to make; the end product I want requires those parts and so i...

Comic Report #64.2 -

Hello again!  This week has been further progress on this 600th page.  It will probably take me one more week and change to chew through everything I need to prepare for this animation but right now I am fully in the phase of inking, painting and finalizing assets, so from this point on it's all just downhill until ...

Comic Report #64.1 - Gears In Motion

Hello again!  This week I've been making headway on the page 600 animation; this is going to take me a little while to get through so I think these will end up being next Friday's update as well, but I will absolutely have this piece done inside the month of June.  For now, though, here's where my process has taken ...

Comic Report #64 - Getting Down To Business

Alright!  After a bit of a detour into getting some animation work done following the previous page it's time to start work on the Hell Task of animating page 600.  I haven't documented a 100-page animation process on this Patreon before so this week I'll do my best to outline my process.

One of my primary rul...

Comic Report #63.2 - Rudely Awakened

Hello!  Here is the textless version of this page for you!  My next task after writing this little update is writing in the dialogue and putting it up, and then I'm going to be on the hook for page 600.  I'm not entirely sure how to present the process of creating one of my animated pages on Patreon yet, but I'...

Comic Report #63.1 - The Home Stretch

Hello again!  This week I spent a bit of time wrapping up a large commission job, but I've hit the halfway mark on painting this page and getting it ready to post.  Sometimes I worry about taking too long to make pages, but I expect to have this finished by the end of the weekend and that would put me well within ha...

Comic Report #63 - On The Threshold

Hello!  This week's update is a comic page.  I started the week working on gamedev stuff but I have some mental gears I need to turn to get into that workflow- I'm ready to begin animating human enemies and I need to develop a plan for doing that, since until now I'd been making undead enemies who could be floppy an...

Comic Report #62.2 - Up Late Feeling Great

Hello!  Here is the textless version of this page.  It's about 4:30am my-time as of this writing so I'll be brief and get to the lettering so I can get it up to share before going to bed.

In doing archive dives to research my comic I look back on the way I used to paint pages and I like to observe the ways in ...

Comic Report #62.1 - Stuck Indoors

Hello again!  This week I have something different planned for my work report.  I'd been battling the cabin fever of not leaving my apartment for so long, and so I didn't get quite as much work done as I'd like to.  I'm at a point where I can say "I'll have this page finished and posted before the weekend is ov...

Comic Report #62 - Bunkmates

As the comic numbers have drawn nearer and nearer to that big 600 mark, I've been pacing myself to land on a specific moment at a specific time, and with Lizzie's mystery-solving job established I have a bit of narrative time to relax and decompress.  Throughout the comic I've paced out days in the timeline with some sor...

Comic Report #61.2 - Happy Birthday

Hello!  Here is the final textless version of this page before I get to lettering.  It's about 4am as I type this so I'm gonna be sorta quick so I can post it and get to sleep, but I wanted to share this one with you because it's a very special page!  Way back on March 13th 2007 I put my very first comic page o...

Comic Report #61.1 - The Hard Things

Hello! This week I had to do a lot of traveling for personal matters and I didn't get as much work done on the comic page as I'd have liked.  I always try to land on some kind of state of the comic at the end of a week where I can make a meaningful post about some aspect of the process, and where I ended up today was at ...

Comic Report #61 - Loose Ends

Hello!  This week was all comic work as we get closer to page 600.  When I get within about ten pages of a 100-mark I try to plan my pacing to land the narrative right where I want it to be so an animation-friendly, important moment lands on the hundredth page.  For page 600's lead-up I have a bit of breathing ...

Comic Report #60.2 - Lights Out

Hello again!  Here's a quick look at the finished textless page.  

Whenever I get to this point I always really like how my art looks, I save the glow effect for the very end phase and that always makes the characters pop from the background.  I paint without them so I can get good value contrast internal...

Comic Report #60.1 - Illuminating

Hello! This week I worked on inking and painting the next comic page, and I've hit a "pretty close to almost done" point in time for today's work report.  I expect I can have this page finished probably by the end of Saturday or Sunday at the latest, so you can keep an eye out for the textless version to be posted in tha...

Comic Report #60 - No Place Like Home

Hello again!  This week I've got pencils done for the next page to share with you.  There's a lot of little details I'm having fun with on this page so I'm gonna jump right into posting about it without any further delay.

Coming off of a big action scene I wanted the next short little scene to be a wind-down, ...

Comic Report #59.2 - Put A Bow On It

Real quick, here's the finished textless version of the page for you!  I'll keep this write-up short because as of this moment it's 3:20am and I am excited to get this page online for everyone to see.

I think one of the things that gave me the most challenge in painting this page is the helmet guy's puffy coat. &nb...

Comic Report #59.1 - Fresh Perspective

I didn't get quite as much work done on the page as I'd have liked, but fortunately there's not a whole lot left undone on this page. I expect it to be finished by the end of the weekend, or maybe sooner if I catch a burst of momentum, but even still this shouldn't take longer than Sunday to finish.  Since I started pain...