..Or most of them, anyway. I really, really dislike drawing these goddamn desks. Thankfully most of that huge panel's gonna get covered up with speech bubbles.
2017-07-18 00:24:20 +0000 UTC View Post
I was gonna wait till i collect a few more, but i'll be busy with BPA and other stuff soon, so, eh, here's some drawings!
First one is Nate I drew after watching melbourne shuffle vids on youtube all night and realising hardstyle dancing would totally be Nate's thing. Obnoxious, show-offy, giant pants. Perfe...
2017-07-16 00:22:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Finally got around to finishing this! $5 patrons will get a full 1920px version in their inbox. Might sleep on it first and see if anything needs tweaking in the morning before I send it out, though.
I hope I never have to draw Lin in a tanktop in the actual comic because I'm not gonna make it.
2017-07-12 00:52:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Meanwhile, here's what would have originally run in Chapter 3 if we didn't have to sacrifice a few less-essential pages to the Mighty God of Overruns. Nagy's lock-pick hand might count as a spoiler if I wasn't only about 30% certain it'll show up in the comic for real. But hey, if it does, you get to feel all smug for knowing about it in advance. Service!
2017-07-10 22:24:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Rewrites are a fact of life here at Camp D&W, but when we mess with a page, it's usually for punch-ups or continuity purposes; the "skeleton" of the scene stays intact.
Today's page, however, was a bit of a special case - in the main because it was first conceived for Dan's OTT bender in the latter half of Chapter 3, and revolved around him blitzed out of his ever-loving mind on a Vitaly Special. (There's a little nub of that scene left in the finished chapter - specifically, the part when...
2017-07-10 22:11:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Since I'm a bit limited with my current setup and can only really pencil stuff, I figured I'd start pencilling some BPA pages, since the beginning of the script is pretty settled at this point. I've also done a quick concept of one of the idelogically pure arcade machines from the soviet days. ("Harvest: Yesterday is innovator's frontier, today is the worker's norm")
2017-07-04 20:38:34 +0000 UTC
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So this was a fun page to draw. I think we've already decided to make that first panel into a poster sized print, for every suffering Vlad fan out there.
I'm gonna have a go at inking this over the weekend, but unless I can get the brushes to perform in the exact way as I do on my normal setup, i might have to postpone the update. I've been doing my best to improve my inks this chapter and I'd hate to have any inconsistencies in the quality. We'll see though!
2017-06-30 20:59:21 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been working on a new Summer time wallpaper for our $5 tiers! Sadly I'll have to finish it up after 7th July as I don't get on with my Surface Pro very well. (Doesn't help that Clip Studio crashed on me for the first time ever while saving causing me to lose all initial progress on this)
Unfortunately this means the upcoming page is gonna be running late, too - but i'll try to post the pencils for it at least, and rest assured, I'll compensate by doing a double update as soon as I'm...
2017-06-29 21:57:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Early update of next week's extra page made possible thanks to you, our lovely patrons :D
You have no idea how excited I am for Vlad to be back, if only briefly. Love drawing that dweeb.
2017-06-23 11:40:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Early update! FOR ONCE.
I was very excited for Tatar's appearance, though his design took some effort - but I am happy with the final result.
Initially I just did a front view concept, but after trying to wing his profile straight in a panel and failing, I did a proper turn around projection and ended up with a better result:
That giant text bubble in the last panel is one thing I'm definitely gonna avoid in the future. (normal...
2017-06-21 02:24:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Posting for consistency! I'd put it up sooner, but Patreon was acting up last night. Not much to post in terms of commentary, but here's a screen of Dan's...well...screen.
I had more ambitious plans for that layout, but after pasting Io's ads into the panel and struggling with text readability, I had to keep it super simple and craigslist-y.
2017-06-21 02:13:38 +0000 UTC View Post
...When you expect something to be so bad it's good, but then it's so bad it puts you to sleep.
I should probably start drawing the damn prequel already. The beginning of the script is pretty much ready to go and I do have all the thumbs ready...
I was gonna wait for the end of the month to do a sketchbook compilation, but I don't know how self-control works.
less jpeg version: http://i.imgur.com/pThiF4T.jpg
... 2017-06-15 02:53:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Realised I've been forgetting to put up the final pages on here - not sure if it's needed for those that go up at the same time as the public ones, but why not.
Anyway, I'd give artist's commentary, but this page is pretty straight forward. I do wish I put a bit more detail into the background, though.
2017-06-11 23:21:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Slowly working on the next pages! Trying to get ahead before my trip home in just over a week, so Patrons should hopefully see more early pages!
Figuring out another Digital Serenity-related character. Kinda struggling, probably not the final iteration. It's also one of the few ones where I've actually got Io's description to work with! I'm probably ruining it.
And here's another bunch of Digi managers, one's more like a tripper that got promoted and had to smarten up a little, the other's...some kind of cybered up mafia brute. EH.
A version that doesn't destroy your eyeballs quite as much \o/
Well, this one was fun to draw. I've been looking for an excuse to stick a giant Lenin head into a landscape for ages and it finally happened (though probably not the last time) Also included some soviet and US toys in the foreground, though I sure am glad I won't have to replicate that exact pile in subsequent pages.
2017-06-04 00:14:43 +0000 UTC View Post
And if you thought the form was overkill, you've clearly never seen the fake portfolio report I wrote up for the blimp scene in Issue 2.
2017-06-01 21:28:10 +0000 UTC View Post
"What's that? This upcoming page features a form that'll be barely visible in two frames? Better go and mock up an entire document, complete with an in-joke literally nobody reading the comic will ever see."
2017-06-01 21:19:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Because we write stuff that amuses us first and foremost and then worry about hammering it all into a modestly coherent story, the process of prepping each chapter invariably comes down to a hell of a lot of chopping and rejiggering.
Unfortunately, that also means sacrificing some pretty decent material at the Altar of the Almighty Pagecount. Here's one such victim, originally intended to slot in directly after 2017-05-27 19:13:55 +0000 UTC View Post
So Io and I had a last minute epiphany with this page, hence it ended up getting both a rewrite and a redraw. Dan seems to be having a bit of a meltdown. I was hoping to finish it before MCM, but between commissions and packing for MCM, it was a bit too optimistic. Thankfully MCM is the last time I'll need to leave the house in a while, so once I'm recovered from that, it's gonna be all the comics, all of the time!
2017-05-25 11:14:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Some silly mockups for next week's page background elements. Because here at D&W we take background seriously. (not sure if they're gonna be used as they are now though, gotta consult with Io. The last one was an addition from me, but that might be hitting a liiiittle too close to home for all of us here in the UK :p) The Don't Believe The Lies one is actually based on a real campaign too, but I'll leave that to Io's script commentaries.
2017-05-23 03:01:19 +0000 UTC View Post
TCAF and being ill set me back this week, but i'm back to pencilling and will hopefully have a page upfront for patrons again! Next weekend is MCM London (fingers crossed I get better for it) so that might make things difficult, but here's hoping we'll be back on track once that's done!
I'm trying to be more thorough with my pencils, especially now that i'm going for more delicate linework, but damn, it's hard. Page 4 still needs that green penc...
2017-05-20 20:06:24 +0000 UTC View Post
New page! Finally trying to keep our Patreon ahead. Next week might be tough to catch up on with TCAF coming up, but we'll see how it goes.
2017-05-09 11:24:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Looks like we're finally back! I was hoping to get page 2 completely finished for patrons, buuut I forgot how long these things take, so here's some lines for now! Will try and post the finished version as soon as I can.
Over hiatus I've been trying to up my lineart game a bit and I thought I'd apply what I've learned to the comic - so far it only really works with the areas i'm confident in, but hopefully I'll get better at pencils s...
2017-05-08 02:33:43 +0000 UTC View Post
My thumbnails are becoming progressively less coherent. But hey, at least they're happening!
2017-05-04 14:39:01 +0000 UTC View Post
So we have a new face on the Synacon side of our cast, and two new faces back in Unylsk. That's all I can reveal for now, so here's also a random page layout I drew up that isn't even in the script yet and might not get used in the end. I just keep hijacking Io's hard work lately.
Here's a thing I'll probably post on Monday! Still tweaking the colours and things, but I thought I'd put it up anyway. It's pretty similar to the drawing I did back in 2014, but at at the same time it's pretty fitting for the upcoming chapter, so...
2017-04-29 01:50:53 +0000 UTC View Post
An early peek at tomorrow's update. Looks like Dan's in good hands here!
2017-04-23 21:25:50 +0000 UTC View Post
If anyone wonders why I've been a bit quiet on Patreon, here's why. I've been indulging in something I've been wanting to do and couldn't back when i had a real job: making a crap animation in After Effects. Ever since I did that little slideshow for our Patreon video I felt like doing more, and, well, now I have. The resulting attempt is only 40 seconds long and I'm ready to never touch After Effects again, but at least it's done-ish. The video you see is an unlisted version and I'll prob...
2017-04-22 11:05:39 +0000 UTC View Post