More Chapter Four Pencilling!

Happy International Talk-Like-a-Pirate Day, everyone! The nice lady who runs the preschool gave me a funny look when I made my goodbyes by saying, "aye, and may a fair wind ever blow for thee!"

The entirety of Chapter Three is now free online! Though… I am getting the strong impression that most people would rather wait for it to be a book. I don't track or monitor website visits, so I don't know how many people are reading the comic online, which I guess would be handy in this circumstance. Oh well! There it is! Please tell your friends! Celebrate this notable holiday by sharing a comic that does, at last, after 180 pages, actually include some pirates. Probably.

Semi-related: this week I learned about piperka.net, a website that makes it easy to stay up-to-date with static HTML webcomics like the pages on delilahdirk.com. It is gloriously "Web 1.0." I love it.

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More Chapter Four pencil sneak peeks.
Spoilers! There maybe might sort of be some!

I am extremely pleased with this old man face:

And feet are tricky to draw — they're made of so many confounding shapes smushed together in confounding ways — so I like how this turned out:

And that means that I've been pencilling the fight sequence whose thumbnails I detailed in this video. When I re-thumbnailed the sequence, instead of five rows of panels per page, I spread it out to three. But that looked weird, proportions-wise. Now there are four rows and the fight lasts a page longer. It feels less compacted and probably reads better.

Related: Getty Images is usually where I go first for my photo reference, but they have a disappointingly sparse selection of nude figure photos, which is not helping me draw the back anatomy on One-Scar, the semi-nude pirate flag-bearer.

aaaaannnnnnd as I was typing this out I just realized I could open any one of my handful of anatomy books, which I keep within easy reach but I guess never think about. This literally did not occur to me at all until just now, when I was about to ask, "does anyone have recommendations for figure drawing sites???" *sigh*

An early post this week! I wanted to celebrate the only calendar holiday (I think?) that's thematically related to this project.

NOW: TO DRAW

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Big hugs to all of you, thank you so much for your great comments and making this project possible.

Until next week,
I remain,
weird, proportions-wise,

TC