[ This is Chapter Four in an ongoing, improvised prose story about three adventurers trying to find their way after the head of their party has died, as well as trying to get paid from a town full of miserable racists. Chapter One; 2022-02-17 15:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
In the images above: many arguing heads, some scenery, and some pencil-inked inked pages. I started using a Winsor & Newton Series 7 sable brush (with Dr Martins ink). It's been sitting in my toolkit for years, and I was too scared to break it out because A) it's expensive and B) what if I really liked it? Then I would be...
2022-02-10 00:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
[ There are captions along with the images if you click through. ]
I'm happy with how those big, detailed wallpaper pages turned out. Thanks to a recent reminder from Chris Schweizer, I was careful not to put the outline on the line, but outside the line, since it's all surrounded by black.
I was watching the Appl...
2022-02-04 14:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post[This is Chapter Three in an ongoing, improvised prose story. Chapter One; Chapter Two. ]
[ 100% of voters decided that the party would go to the unwelcoming town ...
2022-02-02 21:03:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Above: it's tea time once more, and it's time to reminisce about England.
Below: since I haven't had to draw a sailing ship in a while, I figured it was time to add back something equally infuriating to draw, so now there's a horse. Horses live at an inconvenient intersection between being familiar enough that it's easy...
2022-01-26 20:26:25 +0000 UTC View Post
A reader (hello Jason!) was asking in the comments about the inking and how it gets coloured. I'm going to describe it in detail, because not only is this technique useful for specifically this application, transparency lock can be a hugely versatile tool in your belt. It's what makes "flatting" work. I keep the feature set t...
2022-01-20 21:46:17 +0000 UTC View Post~ The continuing, improvised story of three adventurers and their beloved car, under the working title (and Patreon tag) "El Camino." ~
( Chapter One > )
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CHAPTER TWO.
2022-01-16 21:10:25 +0000 UTC
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Above, three images: the first, a challenging page, but that bridge and those fortress-style walls will be important later.
Then, two of my new favourite pages, for reasons I cannot perfectly articulate. So I will not try. It is nighttime. DD and Katerina (who we will meet in the first few pages of the chapter) are look...
2022-01-12 21:51:44 +0000 UTC View PostThis is the very first post of a new venture—an improvised, interactive story that I'll be writing with input from you, Dear Readers. I'm not entirely sure where it will go, because I'll have only half a grip on the wheel. It is exciting.
The story starts below. There will be two options at the end. Readers at the BEN...
2022-01-05 18:24:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Inking begins!
Happy New Year, all! Greetings to the new readers who have signed up over the past few months—thank you for your support of what I now consider the world's most slowly-updated, most tightly-focused Little Free Library (in that it is a place where anyone might read a book, so long as it ...
2022-01-05 18:06:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Literally: housekeeping. I need to clean up this mess.
Highlights (to me):
HUZZAH!
Above: Page 6, the last pencilled page.
Below: The Stack.
Look at those good good green lines, that's what I like to see.
EDIT: Whoops, the lines weren't going to 100%. What can I say;...
2021-12-18 00:44:22 +0000 UTC View PostToday: talk about drawing hands; highlights from recent pencilled pages; George Saunders makes me feel like a million bucks; a happy progress update; and, though I am not inclined to believe in things like "off-days," sometimes you gotta call a spade a spade.
On Tuesday, I Twittered, "Just re-drew the same hand SO MANY ...
2021-12-16 19:33:57 +0000 UTC View PostThis week: I still have George Saunders on the brain, revisiting the Scene-Sequel approach, a TV recommendation, and it turns out I was right??? about how basic it is to light a character in a scene???
But first! FIRST! Some drawings in progress.
As always, absolutely spoilers galore here, just spoilers splatt...
2021-12-10 22:57:15 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, something old and something new.
My “something new” is George Saunders’ A SWIM IN THE POND IN THE RAIN, wherein author 2021-12-01 23:18:49 +0000 UTC View Post
The other night I posted this image over on Twitter, saying, “Filed under ‘cruel things I am doing to myself on a Friday night.’”
2021-11-25 20:44:40 +0000 UTC
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[ ^ Above: an elaborate cemetery complex carved into the hillside. ]
Roughs continue! I've included a few notable panels. As always, mild spoilers. You know what you're doing, I trust you.
[ ^ while working on th...
2021-11-16 22:04:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm now neck-deep in the process of laying out my pages for Chapter Two. (Specifically: I take a big sheet of drawing paper, trace my page-size border template onto it, then, referencing that page's thumbnail, I start roughing out the drawings.)
At the top of the post, one of my favourite drawings so far, of Alexandra a...
2021-11-11 19:16:39 +0000 UTC View PostThis is a cautionary tale, and is a personal story about my mother’s death. It is not gruesome, but you might not want to read something like that, for a whole variety of very good reasons.
I am not asking for condolences. On the other hand, I have discovered that it can lighten your heart to connect with o...
2021-11-04 18:23:04 +0000 UTC View Post
This is exciting. I was reminded of a long-running, irritating problem that I often forget, and am now, finally, solving it.
The other day, friend and brilliant artist Rebecca Dart posted this tweet:
…where what we're l...
2021-10-26 18:36:04 +0000 UTC View PostThumbnails for Chapter Two are finished! I still have to review everything, but in my mind, right now, it feels good and solid and like it does what it needs to do. And my worst fears were in fact unjustified—the whole chapter only came out to 80-someodd pages (instead of the 176 that my lazy estimation gave me).
I had a scare yesterday. I wrote about 14 pages of "writing." Yesterday, I finished thumbnails representing the three of those 14 pages, and, if I follow through on those thumbnails, they will be thirty-ish finished comic book pages.
Thinking, "that seems like a lot," I did a quick estimation. At the rate I've been goin...
2021-10-13 19:48:19 +0000 UTC View PostI'm in the middle of writing Chapter Two. Here's how things have gone so far and how I'm planning to proceed.
1) POST-ITS. 2021-10-05 18:34:09 +0000 UTC View Post
The final pages of Chapter One! It is a small update, I will admit, but these are also a few of my favourite pages.
He he he. During the writing process, when I stumbled across that final line, I knew, "yes, yes, this is exactly how I want to end the chapter, it is perfect." I like how the setup for it tells us about Al...
2021-10-01 18:46:57 +0000 UTC View PostIn the past, when I was posting DD to the web, I put out new instalments on Saturday morning, thinking it would be a nice part of peoples' weekends.
Thinking about DD4, I figured I would ask: assuming you read webcomics, is there a day you would like DD4 to pop up in your various feeds, however you get it? Do you like a...
2021-10-01 16:52:19 +0000 UTC View Post
If you'd like to see what the page presentation looks like on delilahdirk.com, I've posted the first few pages… including the Patron Acknowledgements. If there are CSS issues or something else, I guess I would be grateful if you let me know, though I am skeptical of my ability to fix them.
(Hmmm, I have to update that...
2021-09-27 21:10:55 +0000 UTC View PostFirst, what to anticipate from Chapter Two. Then, a promise. Finally, a little bit of blue-sky dreaming.
CHAPTER TWO!
“Hey Tony,” you say, “why are you so excit...
2021-09-26 18:59:16 +0000 UTC View Post
… in which the truest type of familial affection is demonstrated.
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Good news everybody!
Finally, FINALLY! I get to start work on Chapter Two. I am excited (there are so many fun/dumb things I want to do) and terrified (I'm certain it will be the most difficult chapter to bring t...
2021-09-24 16:06:00 +0000 UTC View Post
…in which Alexandra's mother demonstrates a disappointing view on human behaviour.
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Okay, arts grants are sent off! After proofreading my applications one million times, I'm sure there are only a dozen embarrassing gaffes in there, as opposed to a-dozen-and-one.
I've been busy with a few other sma...
2021-09-17 16:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
We're at a big milestone: after many months, Chapter One is done. The first chapter of DD4, wherein I thought I'd try a few new things, is all coloured-up and finished. Let's do a little reflection, a little personal accou...
2021-09-16 22:20:41 +0000 UTC View Post
