Hello and happy new year! These past two weeks have been restful for me, but between last week, this recent page update and this week it sort of adds up to one normal week of posted content, so thank you for your kind patience and support. This week I have two new minis to share, but they each have a bunch of words attached to them so let's see what we got!
#046: Early on in our gam...
2021-01-01 20:44:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello again! Thank you for your patience with me this week- on Friday I really only had this page inked and I didn't want to crunch out something more substantial on Christmas, so I guess I made up for it by painting really quickly, because this is the textless page before the comic goes up on the main site.
There's been something about these interior shots that have been a lot easier for me to paint. Either my process has become more efficient or the art style has evolved i...
2020-12-30 06:53:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! This week I did a bit of work, but I also wanted to rest for the holidays, so I'm just going to post my minicomics, since I could spend all day typing up about the main comic page. I made progress on it- inking and flatting it- but I'll have more progress to share next week. Today, though, I have three new minis to share with you, so I hope that will be a nice gift for your holidays!
2020-12-25 21:15:22 +0000 UTC
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Hello! This week I got another batch of minis ready. I burned a bit of my buffer the other week so I wanted to do a couple more to get back up to a 20-page lead, which I'm at right now. This week's strips bring us from #40 to 42, so let's hop in and get to it then!
#040: This strip was actually the very first idea I wrote down on my .txt file for mini ideas. Way back in ...
2020-12-19 04:58:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello again! Today's a bit of a late edition, thank you for your patience. I've got the sketch phase of a new page ready for you, so it's time to expand a bit on the storyline!
The last few pages have been a bit of a segue to address an important issue and set up future interactions, but "I think I might actually be in love with this person" wasn't the issue Lizzie was seeking Monday's help with. She has a name from a book she found in a bus where an old lady spotted s...
2020-12-19 04:05:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello again! Thank you for your patience last week, I wanted to get that page up and didn't really have the time to spare for extra minicomics, but this week I wanted to get back into the swing of things so I've got two new strips for you. I also have a fairly large gamedev art post to write up after this post, so keep an eye out for that, but for now I'll go right in and share the new minis with you.
2020-12-11 23:23:57 +0000 UTC
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Hello again! This week I happened to hit a hot streak and got the whole comic inked and painted just in time for Friday, so since I can't get anything else drawn by tomorrow afternoon this is going to be my work report for the week as well. I put off working on minis to put my free time into getting this page out as quick as I can and, I'm pleased to report, I did just that.
The third and fourth panels of this page were the most fun for me to actually paint. Everything...
2020-12-04 08:54:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay so, this is my first holiday week working on this minicomic project. I managed to get a new page sketched, but I only got two minis drawn in this batch, as opposed to the three or more I've usually done. This is fine, though, since it evens out with my buffer. Brain-wise this also means if I get three more done in the coming week that will land right at the nice round number 40, which I'll be happy with. So anyways, here's this week's minis:
2020-11-27 23:00:40 +0000 UTC
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Hello again! This has been a busy week but I managed to get the next page started, so I've got that to share with you today. This one's got a bit of weight behind it so there's a lot for me to talk about, so I'm gonna jump right into it.
Over the course of however many pages I've spent a lot of time setting up Tombstone as a place the characters live and established a bunch of new characters and new threads, so for this scene I wanted to tie up some loose ends with older cha...
2020-11-27 22:33:45 +0000 UTC View Post
So it's been about 24 hours since my last post, but I'm pleased to say I was able to knock out the rest of this comic in that time and so I have a textless version to share with you now!
Compared to the block-in phase, adding all the details in the background really turned this scene from a big grey box into the actual diner with all its character intact. One of the things I really like about painting interior shots is being able to paint really clear cast shadows on ...
2020-11-21 23:44:50 +0000 UTC View Post
As I've been working on these minis for a little while I've received words of encouragement from my friends, but also they wanted to get into it too and make some suggestions for strip ideas. Since these are so simple and self-contained that's an easy thing to accommodate I'm happy to put them into my ideas list. This week I drew a couple suggestions that came from my pals! I'm also planning ahead for the end of the year holiday week, where I'd like to buy myself enough time...
2020-11-20 23:16:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello again! This has been a fairly eventful week- our longtime website host had been bought by another company and merged with a third company that didn't support features that make the site work, so we had to find a new host and transfer the site over to keep it running smoothly. We got those fires putting out and the site seems to be running just fine, but if when the next page goes up there ends up being some hiccups, you can know in advance it's stuff we're ironing out for as...
2020-11-20 22:42:19 +0000 UTC View Post
This has been a productive week for me. I drew three minicomics last weekend- all in one 24-hour span, in fact!- and that put me up to 32 strips! And since #12 went up today that means I'm officially just flatly 20 strips ahead, I've hit my target buffer! Also, being able to do all three in one day is probably what afforded me enough time to just knock out page 606 of the main comic. These strips have always been meant to be cheap and quick to do so they don't impede o...
2020-11-13 23:20:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello again! It's been about a day since my previous page went up, and I've met my personal challenge to get the next page sketched in time for today's write-up! Some of the panels are a bit fast and loose but I got what I needed blocked in so I can just start pushing forward on this page. So anyways, let's jump into it!
It's been a little while since Lizzie and Monday have had a one-on-one interaction with each other. Throughout the comic they've had a conflicti...
2020-11-13 22:24:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello again! I think last Friday I anticipated having this page done by the end of next weekend, but I'm happy to report I have the textless page available for you today! There's like two speech bubbles on this page so there's not a lot of writing before it all goes up, I'll be quick with my writeup for this post.
Thinking back I had a large outdoor scene in the fight with the Yellow Ponchos, then a brief string of indoor scenes with the post-mission review and then another outdoo...
2020-11-12 08:20:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello hello! Once again I've got a batch of new minicomics to share with you! I posted #010 officially today and I've got minis #027 to 029 to share today, which means if I can do three more by next week I'll have 12 posted officially and 32 in the tank, which puts my buffer right at the 20-strip mark I've been aiming for! This week's batch have been fun, so without further ado I'll jump right to sharing them with you!
2020-11-06 23:24:46 +0000 UTC
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Hello again! I have a new progress report to share this week. I didn't make as much progress as I had wanted to this week but I think many of us didn't get as much done as we'd set out to either, so I don't feel too bad about it (I still feel bad). I did pick up a new painting trick this week, however, so I have a bit to share with you. Anyways, let's get to it!
I made a push through the ink and flat phases of this page to get to the painting phase, which is hone...
2020-11-06 22:56:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Here we are, another week in, another batch of minicomics to share. I'm still having a lot of fun making these, just throwing whatever silly idea I have onto a strip and then following through and letting it ride. I got another three strips done this week, which I think is a sustainable amount to balance with the rest of my workload. Since I'm posting two a week on Tuesday and Friday I'm on a pace to maintain a net-positive buffer. It's actually been kinda fun to be po...
2020-10-31 01:15:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello again! This week I have a new page sketch to share, which if you've been following this blog for the past few months you will know I'm really excited about. I've been super exhausted drawing that outdoor crowd scene in an intersection so moving to this nice indoor scene is really energizing me to push forward on the comic. So let's just jump right in and talk shop.
On the previous pages I wanted to set up Lizzie pursuing her secret mission in town and Monday read...
2020-10-31 00:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello again! This week I put up a new main-comic page, I thought about getting a jump on the next page for today but I was really exhausted and I had a bunch of other tasks I needed to attend to, so I decided to just let this partial week be about minis and gamedev- there'll be a games post coming up after this one. I've gotta say, getting deeper into the covid quarantine cabin fever madness these little mini strips have been really good for my mental health- not only do I have th...
2020-10-23 21:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello again! Here is the unlettered page preview before I finish it up and put it online. This one has been a stressful one so I'm really glad to be through this whole crowd scene.
For the couple months that I've had this scene going I've had these two or three screenshots I took from page 600 open on tabs on my laptop that I could reference for everyone's crowd position, and I'm relieved that I can finally close those tabs. I've felt somewhat gassed out referencing position...
2020-10-20 00:08:55 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm really happy this week. My goal for this project was to hit 20 strips drawn before I began posting them, and with a little bit of crunching I managed to reach that goal before the first strip went up on Tuesday. This project is officially live now, so I'll be maintaining my buffer as best I can. I think moving forward you can expect two or three strips per week, that would either maintain or slightly grow the buffer, although some weeks after I finish a comic page I coul...
2020-10-16 22:23:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello again! Another week has come and gone, I hope it has treated you well. I have made progress on the next comic page, I'm looking to get this page finished this weekend, or by Monday at the latest, so today I'll talk a little bit about where I am in the process.
The roughest part of this page is probably the first two-and-a-half panels. I'm honestly pretty fatigued by painting a big specific crowd at this point that I'm just blocking the background people in and I'...
2020-10-16 21:51:22 +0000 UTC View Post
This week I made some more progress on building my comic buffer, and I feel confident enough that I've decided I'm gonna start publishing them this coming Tuesday. I originally updated Dead Winter on a Tuesday/Friday schedule so I'm gonna go back to that for these minis. I managed to draw three more this week around all my other work, which is good, since if I can fit three a week around other tasks and I post two a week that's net growth for my buffer. I was aiming to have ...
2020-10-09 22:06:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello again! This has been a bit of a slog week for me- I can't explain why, it's one of those times where your batteries are drained. I think I've been trucking along pretty well during covid quarantine but this week I might have just gassed out a bit, and I didn't get as much work done as I'd have liked, but I did make progress on things. I've been working on some more Dead Winter style portrait commissions and made headway on some side-job work, but I also managed to ink and fl...
2020-10-09 21:41:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello again! This week I have a pretty content-heavy update to share with you. Over the weekend I'd initially thought about just doing a weekend run of minicomics and then shifting over to the main comic, but like how I have alternated between comic weeks and gamedev weeks I decided to spend this whole week making minicomics and I'll resume the big comic afterwards. I want to build a buffer of about 20 strips before I start posting them publicly so there's minimal stress on ...
2020-10-02 21:32:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, so! I've had this little project I've been thinking about for a while, and this week I finally committed to making it real. I have a lot of projects on my plate right now- I work on the fully-painted Dead Winter comic pages, animating art assets for the Dead Winter game, working as a sprite art contractor for another game studio, self-studying Japanese and presently working on some 6x6" portrait commissions. I've got a pretty full plate, so if I add something else to m...
2020-09-25 22:23:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! Today is a special update day! In addition to this post I'll have another comics post to write up right after, so stay tuned for that! For now, though, I wanted to get the next page sketched up and posted for you. But for now, let's dig into the next page write-up!
The past few pages from page 599 to today's page 605 have been about bringing back and re-establishing the Omni-mart crew, with a bunch of narrative threads tying into that event. It's sor...
2020-09-25 21:44:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! Here's the textless version of the next page. I'm gonna be real quick with the write-up and get to lettering so I can put this thing online real quick.
I kinda expected I'd have had this page finished by Saturday night but I neglected to really factor in all the background dudes I put off blocking in, and how long they take me to add. The system I've developed sorta treats non-focal characters as LOD models- the lower-detail models used in 3D games when a charac...
2020-09-21 08:33:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello again! This week I made a pretty good push on getting this page painted and ready to post. It's a bit of a process to create the look I want for my comics but it's fun to pause every Friday and see how it's coming together.
Painting comics in this style is very labor intensive, so one of the practices I've adopted is to take it in two passes, an 80% pass and a final detail pass. I have some quality about me where if I dwell on fine detail too long it puts a stra...
2020-09-18 21:01:27 +0000 UTC View Post