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Game Journal #31 - He's Back!

I've had a very productive week since last post! After finishing up Monday, and having gone through the motions of adding new feature animations three times, I managed to get half of Lou's new sprites...

Game Journal #30 - Three Down, One To Go

I've been busy this week. First thing's first though, I got some artwork for Glyphsong done so we can have two game demos at Emerald City Comicon. Glyphsong is a puzzle game where you use music to unl...

Comic Report #22 - The Long Haul

As mentioned before, we got the last minute opportunity to go to ECCC in Seattle March 2-5, we weren't planning on having the chance to go this year since we were waitlisted so we're in the mad scramb...

Emergency Update (good emergency)

Hey guys, I just wanted to make a quick post about something that just came up. We'd applied to ECCC in Seattle but were put on a waitlist, and I've sort of resigned us to not making it to ECCC this y...

Game Journal #29 - Show Off Your Moves

I was very pleased with how much work I got done this work stretch!  A bit of this is bleedover from last week but I wanted to present the sprites all at once. I'll go top to bottom and explain a...

Comic Report #21.1b - That Was Quick

In my last weekly report I said I'd have this page finished "sometime before the end of the weekend". Well, uhh, I just did it tonight. Here's the letterless version, I'll be lettering it and putting ...

Comic Report 21.1 - Almost There

Just as I promised last week I'm gonna push through and keep working on this page, and since I'm at that "almost done" home stretch point I'm gonna keep going all the way to the end, which I should pr...

Comic Report #21 - Expressions

Hello! I hope everyone either has had or is presently having a nice holiday! I've got some more stuff to share with you today so I hope you're ready.

I think it was earlier this year where I set up ...

Comic Report #20.2 - My Final Form

Just a quick post to share the textless version of the final page, I'm gonna put words on it and letter it and get it up ASAP, but you guys can see it first, as is the tradition around here.

Comic Report #20.1 - Interior, Crocodile, etc

Here's a progress shot of the next comic.  I'm going to keep working on this and I should have it finished by the end of the week, and then I'll switch back to a gameweek afterwards, but I'd like...

Comic Report #20- Post-Festive, Pre-Festive Edition

Last week was American Thanksgiving and I was tied up with family stuff, and then I spent the weekend focusing on working on my game-week work and I missed the update time to post my comic status repo...

Comic Report 19.2 - More Page

Here's the pre-lettered page before I finish it and upload it tonight.  I hadn't originally planned to use the window lighting to draw the eye to the subjects but it was something that came up wh...

Comic Report 19.1 - The Great Outdoors

I have an obsessive compulsion, I'm sure of it. When I walk I avoid stepping on cracks, when I drive I try not to turn the engine off until a song is finished, and when I draw outdoor shots I like to ...

Comic Report #19 - Shifting Scenes

After a blistering, uhh, handful of pages we get to meet these two again! This page is set to be a quiet page, not a lot of dialogue is spoken so I let the camera do most of the talking.  Not nee...

Comic Report #18.2 - Be Free!!!!

I wanted to push through to the end and just get this thing done and out before I switched to anything else, so without further ado here's the textless version of the page before I put words on it and...

Comic Report 18.1 - Establishments

Here's my update on this art since last Thursday. I was tempted to skip the isometric establishing shots in panels 1 and 2 until later but I instead decided to just jump in and get them out of the way...

Comic Report #18 - Transitions

Here's my first comic page since coming back from medical leave. This one's a transitional page, wrapping up the confrontation in the alley and moving forward towards the next couple scenes I have pla...

Comic Report #17.2 - Finally!!

Here it is, here's the textless final version of the next page!  I'll probably update the full thing tomorrow but this is essentially the pre-release preview for you guys.  I dragged my face...

Comic Report #17.1 - Pushing Through

Here's where I am after the past week. Normally if I kept the usual routine I'd spend the next week doing gamedev stuff and come back but I feel like since this is a new cycle process I can make the r...

Comic Report #17 - Stress Management

As I predicted last week I didn't have as much time to push through this page as I'd have liked, but it is what it is. I have a fairly substantial medical thing upcoming in my life and t...

Comic Report #16: Organizing

I've been trying to find a good balance lately for posting more Patreon updates. The trouble I ran into posting game stuff and then comic stuff was that game stuff is a million little pieces I could s...

Comic Report #15.1 - Finally!!!

Here's the text-free version of the page before I finish it up and put it online! Sorry for the big delays, it's been a pretty rough, uhh, two months?  Holy moley.

I wanted to do a lot ...

A Quick Note

Hey guys,

I wanted to have more Patreon stuff up by the end of April but it slipped through my fingers, so I thought I should make a post to let you know where I am right now.  The next com...

Comic Report #15 - Drawing a Crowd

This page took me longer than I'd like to hash out the sketch version, I've spent most of my time either working on last-minute gamedev stuff for ECCC, traveling around for medical stuff or catching t...

Comic Report #14.1 - Wordless Art

Here's the textless art for the most recent page. I tried to find ways to simplify the crowd scene without going into too much detail (which is usually how I end up ruining myself) so I used the block...

Comic Report #14 - Inks

Switching back from game dev to comic mode from now until probably April, so here's the start of the next page.  

The first panel is a shot of the full crowd scene, isometric and fr...

Comic Report #13.5 - Textless

Here's the no-text-bubble version of the last page. I finished it really early in the morning and said to myself, "I'll upload this to Patreon after I sleep" but I got swept up in other stuff and forg...

Comic Report #13 - Pushing Forward

I've spent the weeks following Thanksgiving mostly just working on comics, outside of a couple real-life things, and I'm aiming to push through to the end of this one before I shift back to game dev s...

Comic Report #12.5 - Whoops!

I forgot to upload the text-free version of the latest page!  Sorry about that. It's been a hectic month for me, moreso than usual. Here it is though!

Comic Report #12 - Momentum

Here's the sketches for the next page. I've basically set up everything I want to so now I can get into action, so I'm easing into that!  Also since I don't have a ludicrous time-consuming panel ...