Due to the fact I can't get them to display the way I'd like here, I'm also uploading the comics to a DrunkDuck account, where the templates are a little more flexible, since it's designed to handle this sort of thing.
I know a guy who says he knows a guy who would give me some webspace, but I'd rather use some soft of template-equipped service, due to the aforementioned lack of HTML skills.
The fate of this blog is up in the air, but it lives. --for now.
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Complexization
Well, it's quite a while past "next Wednesday" and the comic isn't ready.
I've finally finished the art for the first panel. The actual work all happened last night, but the rest of the time between now and then was well spent. I spent a fair amount of it staring at the panel and murmuring darkly.
There were a lot of things I had forgotten to do, and I could tell it wasn't finished. Tonight, I achieved clarity, and the work moved forward. I added five new lighting layers (3 titled "Fires below", one "heavens above", and one "darkness within") and added in a cloak, that was present in the sketch, but somehow absent in the final linework. It adds considerable weight to the character in the center of the panel, and balances the image a lot better.
I should probably add some more shading layers to the principal background object, to give it texture, but I'll leave that decision for after I get the other two panels into an acceptable state. These panels are smaller and less detailed, so things should go faster.
I'm not really happy with the experiment I did with the linework on this one, but I should probably make the page consistent.
I've finally finished the art for the first panel. The actual work all happened last night, but the rest of the time between now and then was well spent. I spent a fair amount of it staring at the panel and murmuring darkly.
There were a lot of things I had forgotten to do, and I could tell it wasn't finished. Tonight, I achieved clarity, and the work moved forward. I added five new lighting layers (3 titled "Fires below", one "heavens above", and one "darkness within") and added in a cloak, that was present in the sketch, but somehow absent in the final linework. It adds considerable weight to the character in the center of the panel, and balances the image a lot better.
I should probably add some more shading layers to the principal background object, to give it texture, but I'll leave that decision for after I get the other two panels into an acceptable state. These panels are smaller and less detailed, so things should go faster.
I'm not really happy with the experiment I did with the linework on this one, but I should probably make the page consistent.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Must find lost spark
So now I'm jobless again. Have been for a couple of weeks.
There's nothing physically preventing me from posting here, and really making this successful is probably the project most personally important to me right now, but I just haven't been able to make myself do it.
I'm going to have this page done in the next seven days. That's three panels, one of them larger and more detailed, in less time than I've wasted on the first panel. This course of action is likely to lead me to conflict with my brother, who will want to play League of Legends on the computer my files are on, so I'll be moving my working pages to the public folder, so I can get them from over the network.
There's nothing physically preventing me from posting here, and really making this successful is probably the project most personally important to me right now, but I just haven't been able to make myself do it.
I'm going to have this page done in the next seven days. That's three panels, one of them larger and more detailed, in less time than I've wasted on the first panel. This course of action is likely to lead me to conflict with my brother, who will want to play League of Legends on the computer my files are on, so I'll be moving my working pages to the public folder, so I can get them from over the network.
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