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Kindle of on a traditional row there (with many, maaaany that I don't show)

I like the unperfect look of it

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Hi. I’m very late to Webcomic Day. The concept this year was to nicely showcase what the progression of your work looks like through layers of completion on a single page, but because of the way I am, this is not very easy. The first thing I do is sketch the page. This can be anything between thumbnail scribbles, nice pencil drawings with panels, or a bunch of floating character headshots with speech bubbles on a random piece of paper. I then scan these and add them to the page document. I usually do digital tweaks to the scans until I am satisfied with the panel layout and composition. I add vector speech bubbles at this stage too. The goal is (was… it’s done) to make the entire book comprehensibly readable, so editors can read it and suggest changes before I put in actual elbow grease. Second stage is modelling important background elements in Blender. I’m not very good at this, mostly because I am new to Blender and terribly impatient. My models are usually a vague sketch of a hardscape environment that I then draw clutter over. My vehicle models are much nicer and that’s because they were commissioned from people who have years of learned skill that I don’t. Third step is when I actually start the finished page. I usually draw the character lines and flats (unshaded tones) before anything else because I find it fun and easy. I don’t recommend this, it sometimes makes the next step inconvenient. I frequently start flats or shading before I’ve finished lines, because I get bored of doing lines. I don’t recommend this either. Last step is backgrounds, and etc. If I need a Blender model, first I load an .fbx copy into the Clip Studio file and position it; then I often have to resize and reposition the characters I’ve already drawn, and then I grind out all the background lines and tones. Usually shade the characters around this time. This is also the time when I finally fill in miscellaneous stuff I’ve been dreading; like conlangs, technical details of equipment and props, conlangs, time conversions, and computer screen displays. Then the page is done. And I move on to the next one. Someday, perhaps, I will be done with all of them (so that I can work on the next book). Hope this was insightful. Take a peek at some of the other great artists making online comics, who posted in the #WebcomicsDay tag yesterday. Read Runaway to the Stars over here.

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All the torso animated studies.

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Sometimes, an idea for a webcomic pops up. It could be simple to draw and test it out, yes, if it didn't involve SPACESHIPS!

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I wanted to tackle this character design

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Hi dear

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One of these dudes only exist in the anxious mind of his student, you'll never guess which one

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Everyone liked the color charts I test printed for Basilisk so much, I felt compelled made a nice version! Great for anyone that has an interest in Risograph printing, historical pigments, or weird medieval marginalia.

(buy it here)

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Gary Taxali illustration for an article titled "Paving Over the Fossil Record"

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Duck Amuck | Director: Chuck Jones | Studio: Warner Bros. | USA, 1953

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"How to step out of the picture" a new Secret Knots comic! I hope you like it. As usual, this webcomic is made possible by the support of kind Patreon followers. Check out the different tiers (there's even a free one!) for extra content, sketches and more.

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Part 8 :]

I….sigh….I sense a lot of bad grammar in here but I’m too tired to care right now. Whatever is wrong I’ll fix it tomorrow👍

Imma pass out now. Hope you like this update or at least can understand it ahah

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Sometimes, I draw some pages I'm not really proud of. Some panels are okay, but the lack of defined backgrounds hurt this page, I think. Still, even imperfect, I let it go out

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Same character, 98 pages difference

(curious? y'can read that here)

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Part 7 … :1 The great braincell awakening as I like to call it

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Update on may 9th.

Hello, if you’re old reader you might be confused. This is completely rewamped chapter 5, kindly forget everything that happened in the old one. I’ve made some changes on some other chapters to fix continuity errors this caused, so it’s more or less smooth reading experience now. See you next time and I hope you enjoyed this change haha