I regret to inform everyone that, due to school work needs and my going out of town for the weekend, I won’t have a comic on Monday. I’ll rustle up a filler drawing for everyone, but the next full comic[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Up until this Stroll in the Park storyline, I used the pencil tool to draw the comic, which has the benefit of really hard edged sharp lines. Been using the brush tool for this arc, and part of me feels like I've taken training wheels off. I like the variety and softer feel of the lines... but good god, do I hate having to search every panel for nooks and crannies. Brush tool doesn't color-fill quite as nicely as the pencil tool did. XD Those underwater panels kick Pencil Tool's butt, though.
There's hasn't been a lot of reason before to show Selkie's feet in detail, so this marks the first usage of the partial ball-joints on her toes that allow her to fan out the webs.
This one goes out to all the times I’ve slipped into casual cursing around young’uns. Which with my motormouth is fairly often.
Gonna be an adjustment period on the artwork for a bit. In addition to the tweaks to Selkie and Todd's faces, I switched to the brush tool instead of the pencil tool to try and get softer lines overall, but after correcting for all the little nooks and crannies the brush tool leaves behind, the end result is more or less the same... (which is honestly no surprise, based on the sketch pages awhile back) >_< It also took way too long, but that comes with changing up a workflow process..
(I’m going to have to shade the comic later. I dallied a bit too long, and I need to get to sleep.) Aaaaand this closes the arc. The next few sets are going to be a bit different from the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was going to have Todd give a little more detail on his background, but I chose to save it for later so I can give it a bit more fleshing out than a two-panel blurb.
Original dialogue for Todd in the last panel: Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh……………………….
I was going to have the drive home at twilight again like the Grandparents visit, but it seems to me that they wouldn't stay at a dinner party quite as long as they would a family gathering.
Wind Sprints at Heather’s age are just an excuse to run around the field randomly. ↓ TranscriptAlternate joke dialog for panels 3-7 because it is 2am and I am insane: B: That poor deluded sap. K: Indeed. Heather, did you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today's edition of the Secret Commentary is empty, because Dave failed to come up with something for it.
And here is the 4th round of head tests. I want to thank everyone for their feedback regarding the first three rounds. When I am considering multiple solutions to a problem I like getting outside opinions, so thank you for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today's edition of the Secret Commentary is empty, because Dave failed to come up with something for it.
Everyone, I’m sorry for the black and white comic. I have a paper due tomorrow plus I had a chance to have dinner with some friends from out of town I haven’t seen outside Facebook for almost a year, so[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I wasn’t originally going to reveal Selkie’s “true” name this early, but I’ve bumped it up because the original reveal point no longer makes sense due to some rewrites, and having her mother dodge around saying her name while saying[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Plo Quar's name comes from a story I wrote back when I was 12 about two twin monsters, Fing Mar who had scorpion tails and created smog and storms, and Plo Quar who had caterpillar legs and created rain and breezes. I drew them both on notebook paper and cut them out and made them fight when I should have been paying attention to history. In Selkie canon, Plo Quar has a twin sister named Fing Mar who I have yet to include as anything more than a piece of background information.
Third round of test heads. 12-14 were made using a more textured paint-y brush instead of the smooth standard brush at the current pixel size I use now (10pt). Not enough detail at this size to really tell, I don’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today's edition of the Secret Commentary is empty, because Dave failed to come up with something for it.
