11 November, 2008

Piracy runs rampant in these waters yarr

I think I'll do a new Artangel soon. I need a red one to match the comic for a while...

05 Nomember, 2008

Comic up! I am not sure if posting on Wednesdays is going to become a habit or not. Anyway, it's good to be out of that fight scene and drawing different things for a change. I'm looking forward to drawing the next chapter! :D

04 November, 2008

Colours for Wednesday's comic are up!

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30 October, 2008

Comic!

Colours and refinements to follow. I started this one kinda late and I may be away from tablet from a few days straight, so I figured it was better to post this in black and white than go another 4-5 days silent.

I went on kind of a binge today in regard to comics. I started off experimenting with drawing the storyboard plans in pen (success! I found I prefer it to pencil), and got a little carried away. I now have the rest of this chapter and three pages of the next chapter pinned above my monitor to be inked in the coming weeks.

Anyway, I need to be alive and functional in four hours and sleep should probably happening in the intervening time. See you on the other side!

25 October, 2008

Comics? On my Saturday?

Considering trying to find a way to condense the prologue into under 10 pages of comics so I can run it quickly without interrupting the flow of the main story too much. I could run it as a couple of pages of dialogue-heavy flashbacks to avoid having to rearrange the chapter structure and archive again, but I think it's probably better for the story as a whole if I just tack it on the beginning again like I did with Chapter 1.

Also I need to finish QE's first half.

18 October, 2008

Really, Alex is just trying to impress the girls. And failing miserably. Maybe if he'd used a ninja rope...

Also, it's been a while so just in case: Rachel is referring to this conversation.

11 October, 2008

It are that time of the week again! The weekend. When I update my comic.

I say this a lot but I'm still working on QE! It's what I tend to do during the week, since I've got it all scripted and planned already, and the art style (and lack of colour) is a lot easier to work with than Balance's. I'll release the first chapter whenever it's done, but the second chapter will have to wait until Balance catches up, or there'll be massive spoilers!

05 October, 2008

Finally a chance to continue the plot thread I started and left hanging ages ago!

27 September, 2008

All my characters get hazard pay, I swear.

19 September, 2008

Ooookay. Drawing on Mon-Thurs is going to be pretty hard to do, unless my course gets a whole lot less intense after the initial two week induction period of drawing insanely all day. I think I might try for 3-4 comics a fortnight though. Depending on what I'm doing with myself at the weekends, I might be able to do one-and-a-half comics a weekend...

But I guess it'll speed up after this chapter or two, because then I'm switching to updating Questionable Ethics for a while and that's black-and-white! :P

12 September, 2008

COMAK

This is my last weekend before my summer holiday's over. I'm hoping to be driven to update faster like I was last year. I slow down in summer because there's less to avoid doing, so I need less guilt-free procrastination time. Which is why this comic exists.

>_>

08 September, 2008

Update! I'm terrible at schedules. And I really need to get a buffer started...

29 August, 2008

Blah. Updates taking too long. I'm going to try to speed up the action a bit, because I'm more interested in the next chapter :P

23 August, 2008

"Clang"? That's really got to hurt.

17 August, 2008

I really like the way this one turned out, for some reason. I managed to keep the faces fairly consistent, and I just love Sandra's face in the fourth panel :D

11 August, 2008

Meanwhile, somewhere else in the ruins...

05 August, 2008

Today in Balance: finally some proper characterization for Sandra :P

After that brief interlude the storyline will be chugging along again. Currently my plan is to finish this chapter - tie up this part of the storyline - then draw a chapter which come chronologically way before Chapter 1 but I feel really needs to be included. It's the very starting point of the Balance storyline, and it's really pretty important. I skipped it before because I didn't feel the need for it, but it properly introduces Lysandra and her past and the more she's in it now the more she needs that first chapter.

01 August, 2008

Comic finally up! This one took a long time to draw for some reason. The dialogue took some squishing to make it all fit, and I'm not exactly familiar with drawing all these characters. Baby Sandra was great fun to draw though :D

27 July, 2008

Yarr! New comic. I swear this strip makes less and less sense every week.

I'm going to put up a chapter title page too today. The central character for the page looks, I realised after drawing him, creepily like Neil Gaiman.

22 July, 2008

New chapter time! I will put up a title page and Chapters page entry soon.

15 July, 2008

Site updated in various ways! The Artangel got bored of facing into your monitor every time you loaded the page, so now she gets to face outwards. Also, green!

Yay strip 100 pencil comic

15 July, 2008

At first I was like "whaaaa" but then I was like "why not"

14 July, 2008

Somehow without realising, I have gone past 100 strips! Huzzah. I will have to draw some kind of birthday celebration comic.

This chapter is nearing an end, which is a relief, as you can probably tell I'm pretty sick of drawing this place. I haven't made a final decision yet but I think the next chapter, or parts of it, will be chronologically before the first chapter so far, and so I may end up rearranging the comic again and moving the next story, when it's finished, to the front. The area it covers is the place I originally wanted to start the comic, and I think it's a much more logical starting point, and helps introduce the setting a lot better.

Anyway, today's comic is finally up!

06 July, 2008

That was a longer delay between comics than I intended. In my defense I have been working on other things, among them typing up the prose version of Balance. I have nearly reached the end of the first chapter! There will be a problem if I catch up with myself, since I'll have to either write ahead of the comic which will make it seriously hard to script, or write infrequently in chunks as I do the comic. On the other hand it's fun to write, as I get more room to write conversations and descriptions that have to be cut down to fit in eight panels a week.

On today's comic: how would you react if you found out the guys you were fighting were a huge amount of clones of your ex and current best friend?

This comic is messed up.