Hi Patrons! Last week, I made good progress into the production of episode 26. All pages reached a black&white milestone: pure black&white character over simplified gray-scale background.
After around 50h of practice, I started to get used to the "painted line-art" rendering and brush preset. I feel less pressure to "paint my line-art", but at the end, it looks really like a normal black...
2018-07-16 16:26:51 +0000 UTC
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Hi Patrons!
Last week started with optimizations for the renderfarm: changing the code was a necessity (44 languages now, 34GB of files online) and I'll move soon (end of August) to a new place with a slower Internet. I'll skip the technical details of what I did to just tell the result: the whole process is faster (x2 and a bit more) and more secure now. (You can read the commit history here i...
2018-07-09 17:27:44 +0000 UTC
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Hi Patrons, last week I focused on finishing page one of episode 26. I often do that; experiment new strategy on the page one (a full loop of the workflow). Pause and learn, then apply the big steps to the other pages.
Under is the three key step of the method I'm using: (1) storyboard. (2) Then a black and white pass where I experimented around my "painted contrasted black&white line-art" for characters (on a layer) and the backgrounds painted with simple greyscale. (3) Recoloring a...
2018-07-03 10:38:17 +0000 UTC
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Hi Patrons! Since last week, I'm doing a lot of digital painting test: I tested Krita 4.1 of course; but I also tested Kubuntu 18.04 and worked on integrating in my workflow new tools and features that appeared since the Krita Sprint in May and mix that with what I learned from all the test of episode 25.
The experimental panel of ep25:
On previous episode 25, I used a new method for a single panel and it was really effective and also fun to paint this way: this method f...
2018-06-26 17:20:27 +0000 UTC
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Hi Patrons! Today is my birthday and I'm really happy it sync with a weekly report.
The surprise
Last week, while future episode 26 storyboard was still in a proof-reading process, I decided to jump on a big item on my Todo list, one that was around for a long time and a surprise for the Pepper&Carrot reader: an official e-shop!
(pictur...
2018-06-18 15:35:15 +0000 UTC
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Hi Patrons! I focused last week on the creation of the final storyboard for episode 26.
I decided to draw it on large sheet of paper; A3 (29,7cmx42cm landscape, 11,69inx16,54in) using a new process: I just drew every ideas of panel I had in mind, every sequences, even half pages; or two or three pages with adding a big padding around every thumbnails. I then completed the puzzles and obtained in total...
2018-06-12 17:17:48 +0000 UTC
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Hi Patrons! Last week was spent into improvements and bug-fixing. Here is a list of the things that where done with link if you want to get more information:
Website:
- New presentation for the donation buttons on the frontpage.
- New possibility to transfer donation via bank (IBAN).
- ...
2018-06-04 15:16:30 +0000 UTC
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Hey Patrons! Last week I had the time to make a new video tutorial ( how to do the "dark matter particle effect with Krita" ), show the Android e-Reader of Imsesaok in a video, work on the scenario for episode 26 and also work on general maintenance. ...
2018-05-28 14:02:33 +0000 UTC
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Hi Patrons! Many thanks for all the comments after the release last week of episode 25; I discover them just today. After publishing episode 25, I immediately packed my bag and joined the Krita Sprint 2018 in Deventer (Netherlands). I came back yesterday. You can read the blog post published on the Krita website for more details and photos about it.
I also started this week-end to brainstorm a lot of id...
2018-05-22 14:02:31 +0000 UTC
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Hi Patrons! The new Pepper&Carrot Episode 25 : There Are No Shortcuts is now published online!
Every five episodes of Pepper&Carrot, I release a muted episode without texts: It's a tough artistic constrain. As if it wasn't constraining enough, it was necessary for me at this point in the story to rebuild the house of Pepper (destroyed in the previous episode), remotivate Pepper to finish her studies and finally showcase the power of the old witches Thym, Cayenne and Cumin (...
2018-05-17 16:46:51 +0000 UTC
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Hi Patrons! This is a late weekly because episode 25 is around the corner and I'm spending all my time on polishing every panels of the nine pages. On Friday, I'll fly to Krita Sprint 2018 in Netherland and I really want to release episode 25 before this event.
A step by step:
I kept screenshot and photos while making a panel, the workflow for this one isn't representative of what I used to do all the episode, but I thought it was interesting to share the making-of of th...
2018-05-15 11:41:58 +0000 UTC
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Hi Patrons, after an intensive week, I finished to 'pre-color' all the nine pages of episode 25 yesterday and I posted the full beta version on Framagit for feedback and translation.
( [spoiler] you can read it here [/spoiler] )
"Pre-color"?
The purpose of the Pre-color step is to paint the global ambiance of the scene with skippin...
2018-05-07 12:59:19 +0000 UTC
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Hey patrons! As you can see on the screenshot above, I started this week detailing on episode 25. I also finished all the drawings of the episode ( in black & white, with a digital pencil brush preset ) so now I have a lot of coloring to do. I'll still need at least ten days of full-time coloring now ; so I know already exactly what I'll do next week.
On other news; I painted on Wednesday this art...
2018-04-29 17:12:46 +0000 UTC
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Hi Patrons! This week, I focused all my time on the production of the next episode. I'm about to finish the drawing step on episode 25 ( I even drew a panel 'live' during my weekly streaming ). I also released on my blog the review for the Purism Librem13 laptop .
The weather in south of France evolved ...
2018-04-22 17:04:23 +0000 UTC
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Hi Patrons! Last week was short but productive.
Episode 25
I'm applying slowly but surely my new digital painting workflow to the comic pages. It's a long episode ( long for the Pepper&Carrot format, 10 pages ) and it respects the tradition of being totally muted and without speechbubble. (similar tradition on ep05, 10, 15 and 20). So, right now I'm working on all the pages to reach a "colored sketch" status. An extra pass of painting will correct everything later. I...
2018-04-16 12:52:43 +0000 UTC
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Hey patrons! This will be a short weekly report. My holiday period in the family of my wife is almost over now and I'll flight back to home tomorrow; ready for production of more comic pages and the Wednesday live-streaming!
Have all a good start of week!
2018-04-09 11:48:37 +0000 UTC
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Hey Patrons! A period of easter holidays started for me here; so I traveled to Poland for visiting the family of my wife. As I was traveling on Sunday, I'm writing only now the weekly Sunday blog entry.
The main task on my radar last week was to end my rendering researches. I'll try to explain it even if it's not easy. The artwork I posted "The rendezvous" (on top) was the conclusion of this research period and also a mini laboratory full of experimentations. The landsca...
2018-04-02 18:35:34 +0000 UTC
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Hey patrons!
Krita 4.0 release
This week big news was the release of Krita 4.0. It was also the final stone for my mission on the new preset pack : publishing the documentation here with a visual example for each 120 brushes. It took me a big part of the week :-)
Research...
2018-03-26 01:39:21 +0000 UTC
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Hey Patrons! I don't have a lot of visuals to post this week as I focused a big part on closing items on my to-do list.
The to-do list items in question were mostly non-artistic todos (backup, rearranging my workspace, administrative papers and repairing things at home). Among the list, this might interest you: I'm trying to improve the level of privacy on Pepper&Carrot (propose a future postal address for direct donation or letters, propose also donations via IBAN). This is somethin...
2018-03-18 14:33:05 +0000 UTC
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Hi Patrons! I spent the first part of the week around the Krita project (I still had to work on the default presets/tags/bundles/palettes) and then in the last part of the week I took time to experiment and beta-test how the new features of Krita 4.0 can help me to produce my artworks (Krita 4.0 will be released this month).
First, I made a presentation of all the new default brush for Krita 4.0 in my weekly wednesday live-streaming. Brush after brush, explaining how to use them. You can...
2018-03-11 20:38:44 +0000 UTC
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Hi patrons! My week was going to be a week of production on episode 25, but that was until it took a special turn last Sunday afternoon: the long thread about refactoring the default preset in future Krita 4.0 started to be confusing and very hard to get a consensus to move on to the next step. The refactor of the brushkit was done (see the "Before" picture under) with plenty of new and cool presets; but the brushkit wasn't balanced for all the target usage of Krita, brush icons were repetitive ...
2018-03-04 18:36:21 +0000 UTC
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Hi Patrons! I'll maintain a weekly Livestream on Youtube LIVE! It will be a place where you'll see me weekly working on my pages of Pepper&Carrot. Sometime an artwork, sometime inking a panel, sometime coloring. It will depend the step of the production of the episode. I'll interact with your question via the chat windows and my microphone. I hope you'll like it!
Where?
Link:
2018-02-26 14:40:07 +0000 UTC
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Hi! I spent the first part of the week to travel back to France after Japan-Impact. Then, I drew more (digital inking) on episode 25 as you can see on the montage picture I added on the top of this post.
On wednesday, two panels were inked while being video-live-streamed on Youtube . It was an experimental test to see if my three monitors (just a dual 1080p, plus the monitor of the Cintiq13HD) and...
2018-02-25 12:09:34 +0000 UTC
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Hi from Switzerland where I was at Japan-Impact for the week-end to give two lectures and a signing session (photo). One lecture was a presentation of Pepper&Carrot and the other one was about the impact of anime brodcasted on French public TV during the 80's and how it affected my art style. It was very interesting to write this presentation and share it. If you want to know more about this topic , read ...
2018-02-18 23:23:55 +0000 UTC
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Hi! I remember a time, not long ago, when I was writing Weekly News of what was happening in the backstage of Pepper&Carrot production. I have my little idea about why I lost this habit: probably a mixture of fear to disappoint and lack of time... I'll try to redo-it!
The past month
I can't really talk about what I did this week without introducing what is happening recently. I'll give a quick overview:
Episode 25 scenario
Do you saw the 4min long vi...
2018-02-09 15:20:36 +0000 UTC
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Hi Patrons! I'm back from the conference in Kerala (I'm waiting for the Swatantra team to post the videos to make a blog post about it). Since I'm back home, I spent my time on episode 25 scenario and maintaining all the lang (work on fonts, updating files, closing bugs, etc). You can check the full activity on our new tool Framagit!
Today, I just posted a new tutorial on my blog: "What is the bes...
2018-01-04 15:43:37 +0000 UTC
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Hey patrons! I wish you all a Happy New Year 2018! Thank you SO MUCH for another year of support for Pepper&Carrot.
(CC-By illustration, Krita sources file available here)
2018-01-01 19:49:45 +0000 UTC
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Hi Patrons! The new Pepper&Carrot Episode 24: The Unity Tree is now published online! Thank you all for your patience! ( Link: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/article433/episode-24-the-unity-tree ).
Behind this little parody about Xmas I hope you noticed the metaphor about the creative process described in the steps of this story: the desire, the frustration, the combina...
2017-12-15 20:33:30 +0000 UTC
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I was invited by the FLOSS event Swatantra 2017 (in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India) to talk about Pepper&Carrot! My talk will be on 20 December at 14h00 and I'll talk about the creation of the artworks and pages on Pepper&Carrot episodes. It will be for sure the longest trip I made for a Pepper&Carrot talk. Also on Swatantra 2017 you'll meet a very interesting panel of talks: RedHat, Krita, GNOME, Purism, GNU Health, FSF India, Blender, Gcompris and more. I'm really honored and ex...
2017-12-11 11:20:19 +0000 UTC
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Hi Patrons! Here is a new bonus article. (link: http://www.davidrevoy.com/article338/10-things-i-learned-during-inktober-2017 ) This one will go public in two weeks. I hope you'll find it useful!
2017-10-18 16:33:00 +0000 UTC
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