Gunwild: I love the hair in panel 4.
Psu: It's one of my favorites too. I drew very differently in those days, you can see it in the way Cassiopeia has more defined muscles and stuff. But the demands of the comic updating frequently, and the way I wanted to draw characters with more clarity, means in terms of her body she looks very different. But I think part of that is just how her character evolved in the writing too. I wouldn't say she's a totally differen...
2016-11-22 23:08:55 +0000 UTC
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Gunwild: This is a bit of a wordy comic, I know, but I want to make sure everybody sees it, because Psu sure did a cool-looking alien design!
http://www.cassiopeiaquinn.com/comic/for-the-flan-who-has-everything-pt-3
2016-11-20 01:56:16 +0000 UTC
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Psu: Guh, it's like 4am. What page are we commenting on?
Gunwild: This one!
Gunwild: As I recall, I originally wrote this as her straddling the gun in a more ecchi way.
Psu: Heh, I think there's still an original sketch where it was clearly more "Mechanical Bull" in inspiration. But I think a couple of things made more sense at the time with what direction I wanted her to be on the gun when I was drawing the actual...
2016-11-18 09:06:10 +0000 UTC
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Extra WiP this week!
Uh-oh. Well, that explains something.
Worth noting: this is the first time we're gonna see Gleb take off his formal cape and collar! Scandalous.
2016-11-17 00:04:51 +0000 UTC
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Whaaaat the heck is that thing in panel three?! Well, it looks like by panel 5, it has ol' Prince Gleb pretty spooked...
2016-11-15 12:09:21 +0000 UTC
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Gunwild: This seemed appropriate after this month's pinup went up. Recognize HER, old chum?
Psu: I totally and completely forgot about that drawing until you showed it to me again just now. I didn't even remember that Theira was ever NOT an alien.
Gunwild: Well, this was a really good idea, but at the time we decided that an alium character would have more possibilities and add more variety to Maddy's crew.
Psu
2016-11-14 23:20:21 +0000 UTC
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Yoink! Clulu and Krad are two characters who clearly have it out for Prince Gleb. What with his altruistic yet sneaky ways, it's no surprise he can make enemies... but he always plays it cool, in any situation. Right? Well, we'll see...
2016-11-11 09:27:48 +0000 UTC
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This was actually drawn years ago! It's always been canon that Cassiopeia's wristbands and ankle bands are the only physical clothes she wears. They emit the rest of her outfit using holofields. It hasn't really come up, but we want to go into it more - and explain that yes, as we shown in the Halloween comic, it can be used to help with disguises.
In fact, this old doodle is why she was written as dressing up like La Llorona in 2016-11-10 06:49:22 +0000 UTC
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Psu: This is really a perfect example of the kind of paneling I don't do anymore. And it's not because I don't like it, but because the needs of each story have changed a lot. If you were going to do a story where a girl is flying through Zero G and latching onto a giant space ship, you've gonna get different ways to show that than a girl on a motorcycle.
Gunwild: One thing people might not know (or care about) is that in scripts, I usually give a number of panels and the images ...
2016-11-10 04:39:56 +0000 UTC
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Patrons for the month of October, here you go! Your pinup's ready, and you're bound to agree, Psu's done great!
And don't forget to tell us what character should be featured next month! Your comments gave it to Warrant Officer Theira this time, but next time it could be anyone.
Gunwild: I don't think this uniform is reg...
2016-11-09 08:09:47 +0000 UTC
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The upcoming page features Prince Gleb and two all-new Vanaa... who are, unfortunately, not the friendly, adorable kind.
2016-11-04 22:28:07 +0000 UTC
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Gunwild: That's a lot of characters to introduce in one panel!
Psu: I remember pretty fondly about how you described in detail a whole lot of this crew. And this was knowing that, at the time of writing this, these characters were just going to be one shot figures.
Gunwild: More recently I've been trying not to overdo it when describing things in scripts. But I think we had enough nice back and forth about all these people - and have gotten enough mileage out of them...
2016-11-04 01:30:35 +0000 UTC
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Here's a bonus behind-the-scenes art update, before Halloween is out: the costume we didn't go with for Ashley. This is what was written in the script - the little devil-horned girl dressed as an angel. I thought it was a cute idea, but then the idea for dressing her as Princess Leia with her horns helping the cinnamon bun hair was too good to pass up!
Update: Now free for everybody!
2016-10-29 19:37:52 +0000 UTC
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This is a pretty complicated page, but it's not every day we get to include something outright SPOOOOOKY! Hopefully Psu will enjoy drawing that, even though it's bound to be a lot of work.
2016-10-26 07:26:04 +0000 UTC
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Gunwild: I'd probably have paced these pages differently if I'd known they were gonna be in a webcomic released a page at a time. Or I'd have tried, anyway, but that was a whole separate skill to learn as we went.
Psu: here are a lot of things we do differently now. For one I can't even remember the last time we did a narration. But there are still a number of things I'm kind of proud of here even though they don't all make sense. But since I knew I was working purely in black an...
2016-10-26 03:26:19 +0000 UTC
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You rad $7 and up donors get this secret concept art today, which is actually work done to design the costumes for the costumes in the (8/22/16) Halloween page! Nizka was gonna be President of Earth, so her flag has Earth's astrological symbol on it, but we wound up changing that for the final design. Meanwhile, Ashley's curved horns were easily turned into cinnamon bun hair as Princess Leia. Even Mr. Shnouf has dressed up! I like his costume best, personally.
Update: Now free f...
2016-10-21 08:19:28 +0000 UTC
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Must be the season of the wiiitch~!
The plan is to do a Halloween story this week and next week. It's the first time we're not breaking in on an ongoing plotline, so we're not just doing a little strip.
2016-10-19 22:16:22 +0000 UTC
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Gunwild: We were just talking about how we need to re-establish that Cassiopeia is actually really, really intuitively good at astrodynamics. So she can do things like shoot a moving drone fighter with a harpoon.
Psu: Looking at this page, it's pretty cool how different the style is. The fact that the edges of her figure are still done in pencil and all the texture is left in the negative space is really different than any of the current pages. But you might notice how really lim...
2016-10-18 03:21:09 +0000 UTC
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Comic Updated!
Do you think people will notice how different Kettlehead looks on this page, or will they be distracted by something else?
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2016-10-16 03:09:42 +0000 UTC
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Gunwild: This is from before her outfit was finalized.
Psu: Oh I like that outfit, AND the blue hair. I think you nixed the blue hair.
Gunwild: I'm boring like that. I imagine I supported this outfit, though, but you wanted to go a little wilder since it's made of holograms and forcefields.
Psu: Yeah, the idea was to come up with something impossible AND bikini in it's idea to keep it more in line with Monro...
2016-10-15 03:11:49 +0000 UTC
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Kettlehead and Talps both look a little different than usual, but it's for good reasons! Look forward to this week's update!
2016-10-13 09:42:43 +0000 UTC
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Gunwild: The quote in the alt-text lets you know I thought the use of magnetic harpoons in Snow Crash was awesome. The fifth panel also has the sound effect "FPOON" because of that one Key & Peele skit with the continental breakfast.
Gunwild: Clearly my influences are varied but excellent!
Psu: This page reminds me that we haven't done a LOT with zero-g since then, and there are a number of things I used here that I expected to use more of in the future but didn'...
2016-10-13 01:45:08 +0000 UTC
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Comic Updated!
Just in case anyone missed it over the weekend, here's a link to the latest page.
2016-10-10 15:01:54 +0000 UTC
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Oooo, what's she looking at? You can't see, because it's the sketch phase... how mysterious!
2016-10-06 12:15:20 +0000 UTC
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And don't forget to tell us what character should be featured next month! You decided this time, and Psu was happy to take your pick.
Since we broke the $300 mark in the very last week of September, Psu kinda hurried this one even though I said it would be all right to put it of...
2016-10-04 08:57:14 +0000 UTC
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Gunwild: "Psu, draw me a big space battle with lots of stuff going on."
Psu: Jimminy Christmas what were we thinking...
Psu: Okay, some actual notes on this thing. At the time of drawing this, there really wasn't much in the way of design bibles to work from for the various factions in the story. When we did this first story, there was part of our thinking to make sure we could get these stories out there quickly and keep the energy fresh and avoid getting bog...
2016-10-03 07:00:34 +0000 UTC
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Comic Updated!
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2016-10-02 09:20:03 +0000 UTC
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The lines are given weight when they become final, and so the figures gain definition.
2016-09-30 07:24:26 +0000 UTC
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Here's the redline phase, where sketches become more concrete shapes, "corrected" from the sketchy, loose ones. This about determines where the final lines will go on the page.
2016-09-29 20:46:00 +0000 UTC
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So, this is the sketch phase. The script is turned into some loose art so we can know what the page will look like. This also involves the critical step of the layout being established.
There are a lot of things to consider in addition to including the stuff the script calls for drawings of - for instance, where the dialogue will fit once all the other details are in place.
(Personally, for that very reason, I try to use no more than 25 word in any given bubble. More than that, and...
2016-09-28 06:51:42 +0000 UTC
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