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🐔🐔🐔 chicken prints here!

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Lots of onomatopoeia in this page. Fogel said this is his favorite gag he wrote for the script and it is pretty amusing that is the one with no dialogue.

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Me when I get a DM for a commission

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IT’S TIME! To let you know I’m chipping away at this a bit more slowly than I’d like, but I’m steadily and routinely making progress (and having fun with the project in general). That gives me confidence to keep going, knowing that one day it’ll be finished :)

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More clean panels hehe

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Just wanted to share a few reworks for this particular page(s). It started out really wordy (feel free to skip the huge wall of text):

Ironically, I could stand to be a bit more concise myself, or at least space things out, so, for the second draft, I actually split the dialogue into two pages:

Much better, imo, however, my good friend Fogel (the person who’s writing the script for this comic!) envisioned Varita’s speech more like her being frustrated but trying to hold it in, so I went back and added some reactions to that second page:

Better? Personally, I quite liked the little flashback panels, specially because I wanted to show at least once that Varita's job also includes cleaning up and organizing the old lady's nerd stuff - but, it did look a little cramped, in the end, we decided the "flashbacks" depicted just weren't necessary. Then I cleaned the page up:

I ended up depicting the speech with a lot less restrain from Varita's part (and adding a few exclamation points!).

Anyway, just wanted to share this page's process. Thanks for reading!

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More cleaning, I’m still trying to find a workflow I’m comfortable with, so I feel like I haven’t done as much work as I’d like to since I’m still learning as I go.

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April was a very busy month in general but things are winding down, so hopefully I’ll be able to get more progress on the comic done. Drawing backgrounds is hard btw.

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hghgh te deje de seguir por accidente intentando enviar este ask

Mas o menos a esto es lo que me refiero de lo del globo de dialogo, no se si me explique bien

Jajajaja ntp, pues fíjate que no se si tenga esa opción el programa que estoy usando, es procreate en un iPad, voy a investigar porque si definitivamente se ve mucho mejor como el ejemplo que me pusiste ;A; muchas gracias por el feedback

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More clean panels! Progress has been a little slow on the comic but the softlock text game is progressing a lot. Will keep sharing more as things develop~

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Hello, haven’t done a lot of progress on the wwagun comic, mostly because we’ve been working on a different project, well, we started working on it a while ago and my friend Fogel just finished making a small prototype for testing, lemme share what it’s about - it’s a text-based puzzle game where the goal in each scenario is to render the scenario unwinnable, in other words, getting softlocked. The protagonist is Nopor Puss (a pun on “no purpose”)

This guy! He's Fogel's character and his whole deal is doing things that are pointless, Fogel has a couple of forum adventures starring him archived on his website, they're really funny, I recommend the 2nd one but both are great! Here's a link

(oh yeah, I forgot I drew a cover image for it and never posted it anywhere)

Anyway, that's Nopor Puss, he's the Master of Pointlessness™ and we're making a text adventure where he messes everything up because it would be pointless to do so. Here's a couple of excerpts Fogel wrote detailing the plot of the game:

"The (virtual) scenarios are put together by a programmer obsessed with an adventure game he played long ago. Nopor Puss stumbles onto this man’s complex, and manages to softlock every simulation."

So far, Fogel managed to put together a functional build to test things, and we're going through it seeing where we can add visuals and stuff. I'm pretty excited about this project and I'm glad we're getting a lot of progress done on it.

So, I'll be mostly working on the wwagun comic, but splitting my attention with this project as well. I'll share more stuff as we go, of course.

Thanks for reading and look forward to it I suppose!

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Finally cleaning up pages!

After a few tests, I’ve decided to clean everything up using Procreate. I’m gonna be honest, it’s a bit daunting to think about cleaning all 50-something pages and then coloring them, but it’s also a pretty comfy thing to work on, so I guess it’s just a matter of not being impatient. Anyway, hopefully it won’t take me an eternity.

Oh, also! Little reminder, I have a Patreon and I’ll be posting all the drafts and other files in there, even for free members, so join if you want :) https://www.patreon.com/frappompi

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Random panels that might get scrapped because they kinda don’t flow very well with the story but I still would’ve liked to clean up.

Progress on comic making: I’m officially done making rough drafts for every page of the script, ended up with around 50 pages in total. Next step is going back to earlier pages and tweak some stuff, mostly pages being too wordy, or not a lot of interesting visuals going on. Other than that, I’m testing things to see how I’ll go about doing cleanup and colors, most importantly, making panels, I kinda don’t want to think too hard about it since it is my first time making a comic and would just like to focus on getting it done and learn things as I go. Anyway, i’ll share more stuff soon-ish

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I’m almost done with the drafts for now, but I’m wondering how exactly I’m going to be cleaning up the rough sketches. My computer is kinda not working atm, the power source broke down, and I have an old one that does work but it’s pretty shitty and doesn’t even fit in the case so all the guts have to be out, so Ive been working on my iPad for a while… dunno if I can clean the pages on it, maybe I can and I’ll do the paneling on the computer once I get it working again? I will think about it.

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A splash page!

Ok I thought I'd be done with the rough drafts sooner but I keep expanding the action sequences a bit, so it's taking me a bit longer to finish the drafts.

I'm also starting to wonder how exactly I'll go about cleaning all the speech bubbles and stuff...

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I started using Procreate, and I'm really digging it so far! Specially the brushes and /specially/ the animation tools.