Scott Bieser

Summer Snafu

• So it figures that while I'm trying to get my household moved, and I've lined up some fill-in strips featuring Philomela, written and rendered by "Butterfly-Dragon," the dang Big Head Press /...
  2023-07-24 02:12:30 +0000 UTC View Post

QV09 page 50 art

I probably should not have so enjoyed making this page.

But I did. So long, Greta and Mordecai. You deserved each other.

QVO9 page 49 art

The invaders thought they were clever making their portal immovable, huh.

Somehow the bit in "The Secret of NIMH" where the owl tells Mrs. Brisby to move her house "to the lee of the stone" ...

QV09 page 48 art

Black-out panels are nice because they cut down on my drawing time.
I'm not really happy with how that nebula turned out, though. Next time I paint it I hope to do better.

QV09 Page 47 art

Another page of people just talking. So I try to make it more interesting with varied camera angles.  This is more difficult than it should be, although I think the tweaks I did at the middle ...

QV09 page 46 art

In which Alyss becomes bigger and badder

QV09 page 45 art

Albert Montoya, and more than a million other people, are avenged.

This is one of the longest set-up to pay-off sub-plots I've ever written.

QV09 page 44

That's the problem with those new-fangled personal Miyagi shields. They burn up juice like crazy and then you're screwed.

QV09 page 43

Y'all are so quiet I'd forgotten I needed to upload more procedural art. So, here is page 43. Sorting out how to portray the "Zinger" blasts and shields took most of my time.

QV09 page 42 art

This page really blew my schedule, but only part about the extensive use of Clip Studio materials. It was mainly that scene in Panel 3 with all the extra characters. (The waitress being rudely knoc...

QV09 page 40 art

(oops, forgot to post this before the page 41 art)

In which the hunters meet their quarry, and Li gets shot.

QV09 page 41 art

William doesn't have any combat experience and it shows.

Also in this and some subsequent pages I spent more time with lighting and other "effects" work than I did drawing the lines.

Kickstarter vs Indiegogo

I'm planning another crowdfunding campaign later this year (not This Means War Part 3, that won't be complete until next year) and have been wondering whether to run it on Indiegogo or Kickstarter....

QV09 page 39 art

I might have made the town  exterior scenes a bit too dark. Especially as ink-spread will make them look darker in the print version. But I've set things up so I can lighten the dark a bit if ...

QV09 page 38 art

I did do a fair amount of copy-paste of the pencils and inks for panels 2-4. Well, actually a lot of copy-pasting. But it helps the comedic effect when rodent-munching William pops up in panel 4.&n...

QV09 page 37 art

Another cool feature of Clip Studio Paint are brushes to lay-in "trees" and "foliage". The brushes are single-color so I paint-in the darker colors first and then the lighter colors on top...

2023-01-26 06:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post

QV09 page 36 art

Catching up a bit ...
Here I'm taking more advantage of Clip Studio Paint's cool "materials" feature, quickly placing pre-rendered clouds in the sky for the landing panel. It doesn't have a simi...

QUANTUM VIBE 09 Page 35 art

And back to the Pillars' meeting room, which is the closest thing to "home" Alyss has at this point.

Holiday time-out

As per usual, QUANTUM VIBE will be taking a week off at the end of 2022. Updates will resume January 2, 2023.

Unfortunately I've fallen a bit behind schedule on Not-Safe.Space. I could uploa...

QUANTUM VIBE 09 page 34

A lot of detail in the last two panels. This page took an extra day despite essentially re-using the last panel of page 33 (with minor changes) in the first panel of this one.

QV09 page 33 art

Pencils, Inks, Flats, tones, and effects.

Alyss' face in Panel 5 took a lot longer to finish than I anticipated. I was going for "dangerous" and kept getting "ugly" until I figured out how t...

QUANTUM VIBE Vol.9 page 32 art

To make up for the slower output and not uploading any QV content for Patreon the last couple of months, I present this four-parter for page 32. Pencil roughs, inks, color flats, tones and some eff...

Running late, sorry

I'm behind schedule on updates, and I apologize. I've been battling some kind of flu bug these past couple of weeks. My temperature fluctuates, some days I feel fine others I have no energy. I just...

HowIMadeIt: QV09 page 25

From Clip Studio Paint's "record" feature. Which I remembered to start after I'd half-inked the first panel.

This page might be of interest because it uses a lot of layers. The background of...

Mapa de Novo Paolo / Bubbleopolis

This is an updated version of the map that has appeared a few times in this strip, the first being Volume 5, the Château Perilleux arc. It shows the areas fully controlled by the IGC invaders in t...

How I made that crazy-ass Panel 4

(Actually panel 4 not 9)
Another procedural video that I thought might be interesting to view.

I know I haven't posted much here lately as I've been a bit time-crunched between the last c...

Not-Safe Under Construction

Note to all:

I have created new tiers for supporting the Not-Safe.Space content but the story doesn't launch until July 14 so you won't see anything. You can select one now if you like so you...

How I made Page 5 of Volume 9

A straight time-lapse from my Clip Studio Paint inking and coloring.
No text commentary this time, but if some detail interests you, you can pause or slow the playback speed.

NOT-SAFE.Space coming soon

The NSFW spin-off to QUANTUM VIBE will launch right here on Patreon, in July. Probably late July. When I'm closer to being ready I'll set a firm date (probably a Thursday for a weekly update) and t...

QV09 Page 4 layer by layer

Pages 3 and 4 featuring some aerial combat were a bit complicated  to generate, so I thought a quick run-through of how these were assembled might be of interest.

1. In Photoshop, lay i...