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Comic Report #41.2 - The End Of The Beginning

This page marks the beginning of a fun adventure, and this post marks the end of the art half of making it! I've still gotta put in the text so I'll be quick with this post, but I wanted to share the textless art with you before the page goes up.  

I'm really pleased with how this page came out. The lighting came out how ...

Comic Report #41.1 - Lighting

Hello!  This week I worked on the next comic page.  I inked it, flatted it and I got one-and-a-half panels done, but the first panel was such a doozy it account for probably 2/5ths of the page's total workload.  Most of the rest of the page is easy shots to paint, and I feel like I can have this done and posted by...

Comic Report #41 - Bright and Early

Hello again!  I'm going to be away from my workspace this weekend so I wanted to get my week's post finished beforehand. This week I started work on the next comic page, which is an exciting return to action sequences!  I love to draw action more than anything else, so as you can see I fully fleshed out a very detailed...

Comic Report #40.2 - The Final Form

Here's the quick textless final page post for this week.  This has been one of the most organic pages from planning to execution, just by virtue of it being a page I felt I needed to fill things out.  Back in the beginning of the comic, in like the 2000s years, I had a lot of late nights like this where I would constan...

Comic Report #40.1 - Revisions

Hello!  I worked entirely on comics this week. I always say to myself, oh, what if I do half-gamedev half-comics for a week and make two Patreon updates, and I never do it because I just get focused on the one task, but last week I did it, and to be honest I kind of rushed my comic page to fit it in under the wire.  So...

Comic Report #40 -A Prelude to Adventure

This week I'm starting a new comic page.  I'd spent the past two weeks ironing out some gamedev odds and ends so I'd like to get back into comic mode again and keep this momentum going.  I've mentioned it before but it's kinda hard to shift between making comics and games, since both art tasks require different focus o...

Comic Report #39.2 - A Glint In The Darkness

Hello!  Here is the finished, textless comic art for the next page.  This is also going to be my Friday update for the week, but I also want to get back in and letter and post it tonight before I go to bed, so forgive me if this is a shorter post than usual.  

2018-07-06 06:31:51 +0000 UTC View Post

Comic Report #39.1 - A Slow Start

Hello again!  It's time for another weekly workshop report.  This week I had a last-minute emergency commission I had to spend a few days getting right, it's a UI for a broadcast overlay I'm excited for people to see, it'll be in use Saturday and I'll probably tweet about it, but that took a bit of my work time to get ...

Comic Report #39 - Throwing Gas On The Fire

Hello!  I'm really far ahead on my game asset creation so I'm gonna focus on knocking out some more comic pages this month and the next, with a couple art commissions in between here and there. I'm excited to be in this part of the story, so today's post is about accelerating the momentum of the comic.

One of my worst hab...

Comic Report #38.2 - The Rest Of The Picture

Here's the textless version of the next comic page!  This is gonna be a short update since I want to get back to work ASAP before I run out of steam, but I'm happy to share this phase of the work with you kind patrons.

Last week I think I mentioned a bit about building momentum when I shift between game animation and comi...

Comic Report #38.1 - Meeting Half Way

Here is my progress update for this week!  I switched back to working on the comic page after a short stretch of cleaning up some game art revisions. One of the challenges of trying to juggle both comics and games is the mechanical art requirements of each are really different, so it takes me a day or so to actually get int...

Comic Report #38 - Fun With Borders

This week's task was the first phase of the next comic strip.  The rate at which I can finish comic pages makes it harder to maintain the correct timescale for story beats, as I have to make sure that I'm giving scenes the correct number of pages to unpack without rushing them out the door. Because a handful of pages are dr...

Comic Report #37.2 - I Didn't Forget A Title This Time!

Hello it's me again!  Here's the textless version of the next page. This one will probably be a quick post since I want to get right back to work typing up the dialogue.  Some notes from before: I ended up lightening up Lizzie's face in panel two, and I think it helped give contrast to her face in panel six. Also, I ju...

Comic Report #37.1 - I Forgot To Type In A Title!!!

This was a productive week, even though I did not hit the milestone in my comic progress I thought I would.  I spent last weekend working on a large commission, and started work painting this page shortly afterwards.  The page will likely be finished by the end of this weekend, but for now I'll type a little bit about ...

Comic Report #37 - Digging In

This week I began work on the next comic page, as you can see above. I was excited about the last one for a couple fun details it let me draw, and I'm excited about this one for much of the same reason.  I guess overall you could say I'm excited about making my comics, which isn't a bad problem to have. I've got plenty to s...

Comic Report #36.2 - Small Details

Hello again.  Here is the finished, textless page for you to enjoy.  It's more or less just like the last update I did early Friday morning, but with a few little details to help flesh it out.

When I blocked in all my background dudes I decided to just pick one at a time and paint them in each panel they appear in be...

Comic Report #36.1 - A Light In The Darkness

Hello again!  I've had a productive week and I'm happy to get this page about 90% of the way finished in this work cycle.  I think the relative speed of painting this strip has a lot to do with the main subjects and panel counts being fairly low- pages where I have about nine panels cycling three or more characters in ...

Comic Report #36 - An Old Friend

Hello again! This week has been pretty productive for me, I got further ahead on a comic page than I usually do and I'm ready to have it finished by this time next week, so that will be this coming week's objective.  As for this previous week, I'll give you the rundown on my work process real quick.

Part of why I got so i...

Comic Report 35.2 - Guest Check

Here is the letterless version of the next page. It feels nice to get a fully-painted comic finished again after a string of three intermissions. I don't slack off on the intermissions, but they're definitely easier on me and give me time to breathe and do other things- in this case, hammer out one last stretch of gamedev animat...

Comic Report #35.1 - Back In The Rhythm

Here's my Friday work report!  Shifting my mental gears back and forth between game animation and comic painting is fairly taxing but once I'm in the right frame of mind things move along pretty fluidly.  I wanted to have more of this page done by now but I have to remind myself I actually finished penciling it I think...

Comic Report #35 - One More Thing...

Hello! I wanted to post this yesterday but I honestly didn't have the time to crunch it out before my update time, and I opted not to overdo it staying up all night drawing things in time, so I'm giving it to you today. I've been doing a lot of gamedev work and I want to make sure comic-only patrons aren't left wanting.   2018-03-04 07:51:15 +0000 UTC View Post

Comic Report #34.1 - Lending A Hand

Here are the inks for the next page. This one was a lot of fun to draw, it felt like getting back into the swing of making comics how I used to. I'm excited to have two comics posted in the same month again, so I'm gonna make this update short and get back to writing up word balloons.

For this page I wanted to use a lot of sol...

Comic Report #34 - Tying Up Loose Ends

Hello! Today I have the sketch phase of the next comic.  As an aside before I go into detail about my thought process on this page, I'd like to mention that I've hit a milestone in my gamedev work where I've just plum run out of things I need to animate in preparation for our next game build. It's taken me like a year to ge...

Comic Report #33.2 - Ta Da!

Hello again! I'm back real quick with the finished inks for the next intermission page before I letter it and put it up on the site. 

When I do black and white illustration like this, I try to have a couple rules for myself to make life easier.  Since I don't have my beloved value range to simulate depth and form wit...

Comic Report #33 - Dinner Time

Hello! I spent much of this week processing and exporting game art assets BUT I did get to work on the next comic page as well! Previous intermissions I've done three one-shot pages and a full set of three pages for one story beat, but for this one I wanted to do a two-pager and then a one-shot after it.  For now, though, o...

Game Journal #49 - Finally, All Done

Here is this week's update. I'm making it available to all patrons because I honestly feel bad that I've focused so much energy on getting these art assets finished, I hadn't had time to get a comic sketch up. I want all patrons to feel included so I'm opening this one up so there's something for all tiers to read.

This week I...

Comic Report #32.1 - 白黒

Hello! Here is the textless comic page for the next update.  I'll come clean: I'm sort of finishing it right now because I took the days around New Years to rest more than I did the days around Christmas, where I was finishing up a big game animation. Inking this took me about two days but I let my brain relax so here it is...

Comic Report #32 - A Reunion With Old Friends

Hello again! It was a holiday week but I managed to make both comic and gamedev progress, so I've got two posts to make this week.  I promise you I didn't work all the way through Christmas, the gamedev stuff just didn't take quite as much of the week as it normally does.  I also felt like I didn't want to leave comic-...

Regarding Upcoming Patreon Changes

As you may have heard, Patreon is making changes to the way they're billing patrons.  Rather than fees coming out of my side, they are tacking extra fees onto all patrons for all individual pledges at a rate of $0.35 + 2.9% of their pledge total. I do not approve of or condone this, as this could negatively impact patrons w...

Comic Report #31.2 - Chapter's End

Here is the traditional textless version of the next page posted early for you. This page ended up running later than I thought, so I apologize for that. The geometry stuff is always a pain to paint but I'm always happy with how it comes out in the end. I always get a bit paranoid that I missed some small detail too, like I hope...