Goood morning! Here's the Engelbaum Discord chat times for the month. All times in GMT:
Friday 3rd -11pm to midnight
Friday 10th -11pm to midnight
Friday 17th -11pm to midnight
Friday 24th -11pm to midnight
Hope to see you there! :)
2021-09-02 10:52:56 +0000 UTC View Post
I tend to blend in regular artist problems with meta Creator problems when it comes to themes in the comic - and with the next section of Meio's explanation you might get to see a familiar artist problem that's been only accelerating lately.
Let's see what she has to say next month~
I've wanted to explain why The Folio is the way it is for years now.
2021-08-31 22:13:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Imagni's just happy she has a nice new desk.
Pi isn't scared of much in the multiverse but serious talk about the Void and Collectors is something that really gets to her. Not that she'd admit that. She walked out of the previous lesson.
Meio Dia, tell us more about certain doom! Lol you can tell she's being serious when she's drawn sexier XDD
2021-08-30 23:11:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Imagni giving off big gacha crane machine vibes hahaha.
TIME FOR A LESSON!
2021-08-21 22:09:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Way to bum everyone out Imagni.
This page is really important character-wise for Imagni. She's super talented but is always going to compare herself to other people. Hopefully after a while of being around other artists she can figure herself out and make something she's really proud of, huh?
Whatever that may beeee.
2021-08-15 22:21:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Heeeere you go:
Dropbox link (24mb)- https://www.dropbox.com/s/346wto04gn2qwtk/august2021layeredfile.clip?dl=0
Enjoy the angst and snowflakes! She's come a long way from there, lol.
2021-08-13 15:46:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Lol Imagni thought she could escape the extreme discomfort.
THINK FAST.
2021-08-09 20:23:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Times for this month (GMT):
Friday 6th -11pm to midnight
Friday 13th (oooo) -11pm to midnight
Friday 20th -11pm to midnight
Friday 27th -11pm to midnight
Hope to see you there! :)
Also! We have an art channel in the Discord now so feel free to share your artwork with the community. Thanks to Sani for the suggestion~
2021-08-01 21:48:18 +0000 UTC View Post
She just really loves her work, okay? XD coming to the Core was probably the worst day of her life.
2021-08-01 02:16:49 +0000 UTC View Post
When you need to go buy groceries badly and have to sit all day drawing tasty breakfast foods instead ;u; aaaaaaaa, lol. This page gave me a lot of trouble but I think it turned out good so I'll just forget yelling at the screen all week XD
Thank you to Twitter friendos for the food suggestions! :)
2021-07-31 23:35:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Ah Gala. So soft, so pure, so very angsty.
2021-07-21 22:36:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Can someone smuggle me some air conditioning in an envelope? London sunshine is mauling me right now XD;; I hope it's slightly cooler where you are.
I braved my hot graphics tablet to put this file together for today~
Dropbox Download Link:https://www.dropbox.com/s/llncmikgueds3h3/July2021layeredfile.clip?dl=0
Eeeenjoy!
2021-07-18 12:31:16 +0000 UTC View Post
*Fringes
Had a silly thought earlier and ran with it. I like big fringes on characters. A lot. Probably too much *side eyes Unusti* but then I thought.... what if some of the other characters had a fringe/bangs?
And this was the very quick result XD (AKA FORBIDDEN KNOWLEDGE)
2021-07-10 22:20:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey folks! Here's the times for this months Discord chats:
(All times in GMT)
Friday 16th 11pm- midnight
Friday 23rd 11pm- midnight
Monday 26th 11pm- midnight
Friday 30th 11pm- midnight
Hope to see you there :)
I wanted to do a quick picture for NiGHTS 25th birthday and this was the result of a bad Sunday and some laser focus to get me through. I've not drawn my UV NiGHTS design in so many years and it felt nice to remember what inspired parts of Imagni's design (her colorscheme anyway, lol). I uploaded it to Twitter and Insta so here's the picture without horrible compression.
2021-07-06 15:44:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Don't let the loud ones push you to the side Gala! You're important too ;_;
The loudest of all will kick their asses *lol*
2021-06-30 20:32:58 +0000 UTC View Post
DO NOT PERCEIVE HER.
2021-06-29 00:12:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been working on this draft page for what feels like decades, lol. Clash of the ego's XD
Dropbox link 51 pages (zip): https://www.dropbox.com/s/s2qphqg2pz3azzb/TRiPPY%201995%20Sonic%20comic%20Pt2.zip?dl=0
Here's the remaining part of my reaaaaally old Sonic comic I done as a wee little babb. Enjoy the C R I N G E :D
I dug this all out of storage especially for you lot haha. I might do more uploads like this in the future (old NiGHTS stuff, ancient Gen stuff etc etc)
2021-06-25 10:49:23 +0000 UTC View Post
On my adventures of tidying up my entire life I found this page in one of my old art boxes! It's the very very first ideas I had for the Engelbaum logo before I'd started Branch 0. I forgot I'd even done these!
2021-06-21 11:17:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Full comic download (ZiP) 28 pages:https://www.dropbox.com/s/dtq3bjioec2uzcv/TRiPPY%201994%20Sonic%20comic%20Pt1.zip?dl=0
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Hey everyone! I thought it would be a fun idea to start uploading archives of all my really old stuff from waaaay back that you may not have seen before. I'll be doing things like scanning old boxes of papers, high-school sketchbooks and stuff. No matter how cringe it is, I commit to uploading it for you!
This started because for the past month I've been going through all my belongings and tidying up things I have in storage to try to downsize. I kept finding all this old art that I never put online so I wanted to share it with the folks who care about my art the most. Hopefully you can get a laugh out of it X) Seeing where artists start out is always fun to see.
My journey into making comics pretty much started with this little Knuckles fan comic. I'd tried to do book illustrations before on single pages of paper but after I started getting really into the UK Sonic the Comic around 1994 I suddenly really wanted to try making comics of my own. I was 12 or 13 at the time and the only comics I'd read were the British 2000AD sci-fi comics my brother would collect. He was collecting STC before me, then Sonic 3 and Knuckles became a thing and suddenly I was way more invested in SEGA stuff (lol fangirl).
At the time I was going through some really grim stuff with being homeless, poor as hell, and living in a refuge with all kinds of strangers and crazy. So the house had this empty room for toys and storage stuff for the children workers that would come around sometimes to do activities. It was normally locked to stop people stealing things but they let me in to sit at the desk and draw. So after school each day I'd sit in this little box room with my radio and a stack of paper to draw comics. It was all I really had going for me at the time so it gave me a lot of time to focus and concentrate on getting better. The internet wasn't really a thing back then so I didn't have that to distract me either haha.
Little me made a big progress jump in the space of a year. Kinda makes me wish I could do that now lol.
I had to take phone photos of these because the paper size changes to some weird massive impossible to scan size at one point. I used to draw on anything I could find and someone at the office gave me a stack of printer offcuts to use. Also the weird yellowed edges is because I didn't own a folder to put my pages into to flip it like a real comic so i sellotaped all the edges together into comic format. The glue destroyed the paper over time XD;
Anyway! Prepare for bad art and story! You've been warned ~ More coming soon this month.
2021-06-19 10:57:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone!
Chat times for June:
Friday 18th - 11pm to midnight
Wednesday 23rd - 11pm to midnight
Saturday 26th - 11pm to midnight
Tuesday 29th - 11pm to midnight
(All times in GMT)
Hope to see you there :)
Heeey! I have a general question and just wanted to know if it's something you'd like to see so I don't go putting time into it if nobody cares XD;;
I've been editing the comic from the start for print and was wondering if you'd like a 'patch notes' list so you can read exactly what I've changed. I know a couple of you enjoy going back and comparing things yourself between draft pages like dialogue and stuff. But it might be useful from an editing POV for you so see why I choose to change things around (Time is a great teacher, lol).
I don't think I'll be uploading the edited pages to Patreon since that's kinda overkill on things you've already seen. I have no intention of charging on the edit pages either despite the time spent on them, I'd rather keep that for new things. Edited pages will start popping up on my main site spectramisarts.com (...... once I figure out if I can swap out the old pages without having to reupload all 180something pages from scratch there).
It'd be per chapter so I'm not spamming up Patreon with constant updates on edits.
As you know I've been going all the way back through the previous chapters and editing stuff for print like changing speech bubble colors and fixing cosmetic things. The regular fancy *cover* image of Imagni standing on top of the hill with her Flow behind her is being kept for the actual front cover of the graphic novel. Meanwhile this new image is being added as a page divider for Chapter 1 at the start. This is the page that will lead onto Spectramis creating Imagni, so see this as Imagni's base universe bubble being constructed by Spectramis :) I wanted it to be basic but shiny. Originally it was just going to be a blue grid on a white background but I wanted it to be like the next page so it matches the cool sparkly spacey stuff.
2021-06-09 16:41:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Heeere's this months Clip Studio layered file for download.
Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/s/97jiofwntcoi9rg/june2021layeredfile.clip?dl=0
Have fun exploring the file~
2021-06-09 12:26:50 +0000 UTC View Post
I think they just need to kiss already *lol*
2021-06-01 00:14:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Poor Imagni, lol. She might be in over her head.
2021-05-31 14:06:56 +0000 UTC View Post
This page was so fun to work on despite how long it took me. I kinda get carried away with the hair all the time, lol. I want this scene to be really warm and cosy since so far her room has looked like the backroom of a rave warehouse XD *glowsticks*
Ahhh it's so good to be drawing her again. I feel like my art has gotten better too. I can't wait to see how the rest of the pages turn out in this chapter, it's exciting!
I'm working on more draft pages tomorrow so keep an eye out.
2021-05-28 23:40:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Going to refine these tomorrow and get the colors done :) I got the expressions exactly how dorkass that I intended, hurrah! At least you woke up in your own bed, Imagni.
2021-05-19 21:02:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Unusti, all work and no play makes Imagni a sad muffin. Here's today's draft :)
2021-05-15 22:15:51 +0000 UTC View Post