Welltun Cares Presents: Found!

"Hey Captain Ahab! I found your harpoon!"

This one first had the title Saved October 10, 2006, so it’s at least that old.  I probably should have cleaned it up a bit (I think this was a photograph and not a proper scan.)  However, that seemed more effort than it’s worth at this point.

I love the whale, even though I doubt it’s correct.  I also love the little dialogue that came with it.  That (more or less) comprises the given caption.  Originally, of course, the dialogue sat beside the image in my childish scrawl.  I’ve deleted that bit to protect the eyes of the sensitive.

No need to thank me.

Entering a Title Here #1369

One of these days WordPress is going to find a theme I can’t do without. Then maybe I’ll stop changing themes all the…

Wait, is this thing on?

Oh hey there.  Thought I’d give all two of you a heads up on what next week has in store for you.  Assuming you are the types who routinely follow my mad, futile efforts to make myself known on the net, that is.

Tuesday will see another update on the web comic. While I missed the past two updates, this one has its inks and colors done and now awaits  the cold caress of FTP.

The sad thing about all of this is that at one point I had nine pages drawn and waiting “inking”.  Then my style shifted and I’m forced to redraw what I had.  As my talent hadn’t caught up with my ambitions the previous style, this has resulted in… shall we say, frustration?

Anyways, I hope this puts me back on track.  But no guarantees.

Hopefully before the weekend is out, I’ll have another review up and running.  Which means y’all get two reviews again this month.  How I spoil you all.

I’m a little nervous, though.  This is a Godzilla review, and the last time I posted one of those, there was a major earthquake in Japan…

Comic Still Alive and Kicking

We continue on to page 2 of our tale.  Pacing seems better than previous attempts.  While it took entirely too long to finish, I’m learning a pace.  The hope, as always, is to a.) get a buffer and b.) post at least twice a week, if not three times.  Not shading things helps… but it also hurts, as any one can see.

I’ve also pulled the previous story, “The Tower of Seph-Hathi” from the archives.  While I intend to have the story up and finished, I don’t like having an incomplete work there.  Besides, it’s now Story 4 or 5 in the sequence.

And that’s all I got.

Prometheus I Ain’t

Here’s my first attempt to draw fire with Manga Studio:

Yeeeeah.  That’s going to need work.

Review Up! Comics Up, Too! Maybe.

Been a busy, busy weekend. Got a couple of things finished/updated.

First off

We have my very first visit to the land of Lucio Fulci.  I review City of the Living Dead, and man, was I disappointed.  I expected to do a lot of jokes about this being better than Oasis of Zombies, only to find this isn’t a zombie movie at all

Who knew?

Anyway, give it a gander.  WARNING!  There are a couple of pictures of maggots in the review.  But believe you me, considering the source it coulda been a lot worse.

Next up:

On the One Road to Ruin has been updated.  Or will be…  I don’t know why it’s up now instead of Tuesday.  But hey!  It’s up!  Enjoy!

I’m Learning to Use Manga Studio Debut 4 – Hester (2)

The original Paint.net version

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The Manga Studio version

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Comparison of the two (both with the Manga Studio background)

I’m Learning to Use Manga Studio Debut 4 – Hester (1)

I’m working on a longer… well. larger post on this, bit I haven’t posted something here in a few days and it’s starting to bother me.  So here is Hester.  On the One Road to Ruin restarts (hopefully) March 22 of this year

Left was "inked" with Paint.Net. Right was "inked" with Manga Studio. Both came from the same pencil source.

 

More On On the One Road to Ruin

OtORtR Announcement

Below is a sketch. I drew the whole thing with the mouse using Manga Studio.

I love the diplodocus, even though I'm sure it's not historically accurate in appearance.

Here is the inked banner (click here for a redderversion.)

I also love how I can spell diplodocus and my spell check can't.

Page one is finished. Inked, colored, word ballooned, the works. I’m working on page 2 now. With a little luck, I can get the story all finished by the due day (March 15 is the current hope, though that is the Ides of March and perhaps not the best day to go with.)

I’m Learning to Use Manga Studio Debut 4 – Dredmor

As the title implies, I am now in possession of an art program that’s not a decade old. Well, I did download Paint.net and I’m fairly certain the Microsoft Paint that came with the current Devil Box is recent, but leave us not pick on my first sentence too much, hmm?  It could always be worse.

That all too early aside aside, I have my hands on Manga Studio Debut 4, an art program, and I figured yesterday to fool around with a practice sketch of one of my characters from On the One Road to Ruin, my web comic.  I wasn’t expecting too much from it, though I had used it to ink a comic page last week and I thought it had promise.

Below is the results, step by step.  Click to enbiggen:

What's he so happy about?

It has this feature or layer or something called “Sketch” where it mimics mechanical pencils.  On the basic drawing level, I can choose various pen nubs.  I have no idea what the names mean, but I can choose them, the size of the tips (in dread metric) and whether the line tapers off at the end.  There’s also tone, panels, and a whole bunch of things I know nothing about.

For the record, I drew all this with a mouse, and there was not only some cut and paste, but a wee bit of computer drawn ellipse.  No computer drawn curves, though.  As far as I can tell, that’s for the heavy-duty, three hundred dollar (!) version of the program.

Does it look like I needed computer draw curves?

It looks like I drew this wrong handed. In the dark. With my eyes closed. And any artistic talent I have locked in a jar some place.

Take the Sketch image and compare it with the Jasc one I did of Krevan using Brother Todd’s (sadly now non-viable) tablet. I dunno, maybe I didn’t take enough time with it…

Not that this is perfect, mind.  Not sure about the way I handled the eye brows, for instance.  And the shading… well, part of it I had to use Jasc with.  Be that as it may be, the image is up to my best with pencil and pen, and I did it with a mouse.

Next big purchase for me?  Probably something that replaces Todd’s tablet and start learning how to work it.

Next big project?  Figure out more about Manga Studio…