Hey! I just finished the art on the latest page so I thought I'd put up a wordless preview. I don't want to destroy my sleep cycle too much so I'm gonna leave the words for tomorrow and put it up then...
2015-11-23 10:01:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, weeks later and Panel One of this comic is done! I fleshed out the detail on the buildings, added the floodlights on the night side and ran wire all around town to power what's important. ...
2015-11-17 04:10:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Just for fun, here was my original town plan, you can see how much it's deviated from the sketches. You can see how much things have changed so far, and maybe why I need to nail down where every...
2015-11-12 21:12:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, I went through my comic a hundred times and I think I have all the buildings I've already drawn where they ought to be. I had to make a few adjustments on the fly- like there were buildings behi...
2015-11-12 21:09:32 +0000 UTC View Post
I wanted to get this part done earlier but it was a holiday weekend and, well, you know. I took the weird blob shapes and I sharpened them up into actual buildings and I roughed in my lighting. ...
2015-11-02 07:09:48 +0000 UTC View Post
As I might have mentioned before, the shot I need to start the next page is a bit of a pain to put together, so I thought I'd capture some progress shots on it and grudge my way through it, posting th...
2015-10-29 04:15:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Now that I've got a moment out of the way I want to push time forward and set the next arc of the story into motion. I have the next bunch of pages planned out to crisscross a lot of narrative t...
2015-10-26 23:25:23 +0000 UTC View Post
When the current page went up I'd typed a whole post about my choices for using EKG waves as a mechanism for showing increasing tension within a scene, but when I posted it the post vanished in a Patr...
2015-10-26 23:12:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Here' the sketch phase of the next comic! Convention season is largely over for the year so I'm not in any particular rush to animate things for the game, so I can focus on Just Comics for a while. Th...
2015-10-07 23:41:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Last weekend I promised that I'd have a finished comic by this weekend, and dammit I held myself to that! Here's the letterless art for the next page, which you can see before anyone else does! Oh I w...
2015-09-12 10:09:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! We've been tying up some loose ends with the game, getting it ready to play at the end of this month, and I've started work on the next comic page. Here's an ink preview; I'm looking to h...
2015-09-04 20:34:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi guys! I'd thought about what I could do to make Patreon posts more meaningful to patrons and I thought, well it wouldn't be -that- much more effort to just paint all my backgrounds in behind the sp...
2015-08-02 00:48:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello again! I just thought I'd make another post here with the inked version of the page I just posted about. As mentioned in other articles, I don't put too much detail into my inks since I le...
2015-07-18 08:27:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I finished up my game sprite obligations so I'm switching back to comics, so here's the sketch phase of the next page. This one knocked out quickly compared to the last few I've done because it's pret...
2015-07-17 07:19:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a look at the current page (544) without any word bubbles- this time rather than wasting a bunch of time painting in background I was just gonna cover up I added my speech beforehand and used t...
2015-06-24 22:19:48 +0000 UTC View Post
When I posted my last strip I wanted to get a second one done and uploaded within the same month, and I feel like I can almost do that, but I hit some snags along the way. Here's the sketch phase for ...
2015-05-23 19:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm just about ready to finish up the next page of my comic, we just need the lettering done and it'll be ready to go, so I thought I'd put up the letterless page for you guys to see beforehand! This ...
2015-05-06 23:13:17 +0000 UTC View Post
For as long as I've been making comics I've lived with the guilt that I was making them "wrong". In my schooling I was trained as an oil painter, and one of the foremost things we learned was to paint...
2015-04-27 06:05:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi there! I've been super-busy lately traveling to cons all over the place but I'm back on my current work cycle (sun-tue freelance, wed-thu comic, fri-sat gamedev) and I've got the next page blocked ...
2015-04-13 07:43:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Sorry for the delay in updates, I had a bit of an issue with my computer (the motherboard had a meltdown) but I'm back in the saddle and finishing up the next page ASAP. Back in 2007 I decided to star...
2015-03-11 22:30:48 +0000 UTC View Post
So I took your guys' advice and instead of spending a long time thinking about, drawing references for and typing up a journal post I just took all that time and started on the next comic page. I'm pr...
2015-02-23 08:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostHello! I'd first like to say thank you to everyone who has supported this Patreon over the past however many weeks it's been going. You've really made a tremendous difference in my life and enabled me...
2015-02-14 06:14:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Our faces tell a lot about us. We can convey whole ideas with just a turn of our brow or the pull of our smile, and the look on our face can mean the difference between “I’m fine!â€...
2015-02-14 06:03:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Back when I started making comics I actually stuck to a rigid twice-a-week schedule. Every thirty or so pages I’ll try to find a story beat to close out a chapter on, and for three up...
2015-02-07 02:39:33 +0000 UTC View Post
My comics are usually very visually dense. I’ll pack as much detail into the backgrounds as I can basically all the time. But even as noisy as my pages might get, I’m always t...
2015-01-30 10:50:54 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been going really hard for a long time but I feel like this week I've finally hit a wall where I had so much other work to do and I'm stretched so thin that I would take a breather from big wordy...
2015-01-25 07:23:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a page progress update since last week. I've had to split my time up between a couple different obligations and get some contract work out of the way so I didn't have as much time as I'd have l...
2015-01-16 11:34:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Everyone has their own approach to character design. Some focus on using rich color palettes to give a character a certain mood or hint at their personality, while others employ a wide ...
2015-01-16 11:32:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a current in-progress shot of the next comic page. I'm having a lot of fun with expressions on this one, and it's basically the second time in the whole comic a mop is actually being used as a ...
2015-01-09 11:41:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Every page I’ve ever drawn has started with a sketch phase, to hash out my ideas and block in what I want the page to do, which goes without saying at this point. But while this has a...
2015-01-09 11:38:28 +0000 UTC View Post