Hey patrons! ... and here are the 'weekly news' n°3 with , as a main picture, details about my new workflow to produce artworks (as I promised). So, what's new? #Painting / Speed-painting style : I trained hard this month to speed-up my digital-painting skill. So, now I'm able to get back to a rendering I wanted for Pepper&Carrot since origin : PAINTING ( eg. episode 1 "Potion of Flight" ). The screenshot I shared on Monday had amazing feedback, and I feel more comfortable with this new Technic. Episode 1 with the 'speed-painting style" took me a long long time to produce, and after this experience I abandoned this Technic. It was too long and I wanted to tell longer stories ! Then I started to focus on finding faster workflow. I adopted the line-art+coloring classic workflow for all the 'Potion challenge" series ( ep03, ep04 and ep06 ). 99% of comic-artists use this style, it's fast ; but I was always not really happy with the end result. Practicing 'line-art' since last summer and optimizing color workflow ( thanks to Krita and Gmic developers ) contributed a lot to develop my actual skill. When I tested the painting rendering again for Pepper&Carrot, I was two time faster ! A good surprise. Painting rendering is still slightly slower than regular line-art+color... but much more rewarding for quality ; I feel my result is more near to what I had in mind . I'm also happy to see my comic style starting to get an harmony with my portfolio of illustrator/concept-artist. # Character design update : This month I received a critic : 'not enough moe' . I didn't knew what's 'moe' means , but thanks Wikipedia I found out : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moe_%28slang%29 ( in short: Japanese slang for cute/adorable ). After a review of my last character designs, I thought this critic was right. I decided to focus a bit more on making the comic also looking really positive, cute and adorable. Pepper appears now a bit younger than in ep03, ep04 and ep06, but older than in episode 1. Maybe I found the right setting? Future will tell. :) # Translations status : Dovaa and TheFaico completed the Spanish translation at 100% : website + all comics ! Congrats! Also, future episode 07 version 'colored-sketch' was released on Monday for all translator team. The repo is here ( spoiler alert ! ) : https://github.com/Deevad/peppercarrot_ep07_translation Translations already done for being in time for release : Dutch : Willem Sonke English : Alex Gryson French : David Revoy, Aurélien Gâteau Russian : Denis "uncle Night" Prisukhin and soon Italian ! ( I just receive the Archive, thanks Antonio Parisi ) and Japanese soon thanks Guruguru :) I am continually blown away with everything you are doing to help this project to move forward ; support , contributions, etc. Episode 07 soon ! Thanks for your support!
David Revoy
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