So, here’s a fun background production factoid you may not be aware of. From strip #301 onward, I made a change to my production system for the comic which I am really liking the feel of. I’ve brought a little bit of traditional art to the table instead of drawing everything in Photoshop.
While the backgrounds and colors are still done in Photoshop and Illustrator like they always have been, I’ve been doing the line-art of the characters on watercolor paper with india ink instead of drawing with my tablet. It’s a small, probably imperceptible difference, but I really like the more hands-on feel it gives.
"Snowmageddon" comes from my cousin, who used it to describe a 10-inch snowfall blizzard we had in my area a couple weeks ago. Which turned to warm sunshine in less than a week. What the hell, Midwest?
What’s with Moonsong’s eyes? First time we see his left eye, and it’s white?
Might be blind in that eye.
Oh, yeah- cataract?
Maybe he’s blind in that eye.
would explain why we always see it covered up XD
I thought it was just a snowflake that happened to be in that position, but looking again, the snow doesn’t seem to be obscuring anyone else’s face …
And the coughing begins – looks like Selkie will soon be down for the count.
New style; looks good. Approval.
Yeah, I can be brief.
Ditto.
(I brief-er.) 😉
Ah, the soul of wit!
I see no difference in the style.
I’m no artist, so excuse my limited vocabulary in this matter. I think the figures are more varied, less monolithic. The action is more fluid and natural-seeming; there was a static element in the original style. It always told the story, but now the art contributes more- it’s become part of what’s being conveyed- the medium has become a little more of the message.
(Squirms uncomfortably) I do maths, you know…
If you do math can you explain to me why I should care what X equals? There’s never a narrative hook, no compelling protagonist or antagonist, not even a story to follow or a quest to pursue. Just a dude named X who keeps asking me to define what he is and to resolve his dilemma of finding his real meaning and purpose in the greater scheme of an equation.
That greater scheme or equation is one of which we are all a part and to find x is one step closer to finding your own meaning.
BOOM MATHED
I’m not even a Math person…
Yeah, I get a lot of that. Especially from taxi drivers. What if he called himself Mr. X?
Because he could turn out to be anything, real or imaginary, mundane or exotic. The re-entry speed of an alien spacecraft. The exact sum of a lottery win. The concentration of a poison in the blood. The repellant power of a force field. The magnitude of the momentum of a charging oliphaunt. The output of all the tea plantations in India. The number who fell at Thermopylae. The age a mutation first manifests. The number of weevils in the rice bowl of a war prisoner. The number of inhabited planets in the galaxy, the local cluster, the universe.
… and yes, the number of minutes it takes two men to dig a 5m*5m*17m ditch, if each can move 11 cubic metres an hour. The trouble is, textbooks go for the mundane equations and ignore the exotic. We could be telling Lord of the Rings, but we insist on telling bus-stop anecdotes.
frdghjt, you could be.
Uh, I got a page in my RSS feed and now it’s gone. O_o
Basically, I went out drinking with friends last night, drunk-blogged the website with proclamations of love and adoration, and removed it in the morning when I realized it would sit on the front of the site and never leave.
awww i liked it, how will we feel loved now? T_T
<3 u
10 inches? We got hit with 39 in one night where I was a few months ago and that’s not normal for our area!!!
Psh, where’s the teachers? As usual when the bullies are around, the teachers aren’t. Less than impressed with this school system still.
Yeah, that’s normal. They’ll show up after the bullies are through and wonder what happened.
*sigh* I really WISH this wasn’t art imitating life but…