Comic for Friday, July 27th, 2018
Suffice to say it’s been a long week. Nothing too bad, just work managed to come up with a problem I actually couldn’t solve, which might be a first. I suppose that technically I still solved, but it was more like building a bridge over the whole thing, and calling the canyon through the middle of the functionality a feature. I dunno, I’ll look at it more later, but for the time being it’s… uh, fixed. In general I am pretty overqualified as a software engineer for what I do, but the problem with business software is that half of the code is property for different companies, so you can never just debug code, it’s like wiring together half a dozen black boxes just sort of guessing what they are doing. It’s sort of like coding with a blindfold.
Typically I count on work not taking up that much time to support all my various hobbies, but sometimes it strikes with vengeance.
Anyway…
So, we need to talk about armor, tanks, and walking mech things. Frankly they are beyond what I can really draw, so we are just going to have to sometimes use a little bit of imagination to fill in the blanks, I’ll do my best, but…
Many comics that feature them heavily use 3-d models for reference and consistence, which is a good idea, but the problem is I don’t use any one particular model enough for that to really be worth it, since everyone’s looks slightly different. We’ll make due somehow. Maybe I will get good at drawing them if they show up too much.
At one point I was going to cut them from the story because I couldn’t draw them, but, well, I never was very good at cutting things, the world refuses to cooperate so there they still were in it.
While we are being frank… this page is definitely a little, ah… rushed. I really should have done half a page, but I couldn’t decide how to cut it, so I didn’t. Hey, don’t look at me like that. I never claimed to know what I was doing. Will fix spelling and grammar as I go, but don’t want to delay page too much more so posting now 🙂
I will probably skip a page next week. I really should have just skipped this one (as I know some of those smarter than me will tell me) but I didn’t wanna, so, there’s that brilliant and logical stance… 😉 I just don’t like skipping without saying I will, which is why I’m saying now I probably will skip on next week 😉 – really need to get a buffer again so all this silliness is avoided.
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So where did these magic walking tanks come from? According to earlier comics, only Kor’s world had figured out remote magic. Does that mean Arpon made a breakthrough? Is Arpon working with Kor’s world? Are these tanks full of or piloted by mages?
My understanding is that Ila is the only “non-human” mage in both Central and Palindra.
Hey the magic could be being performed by people inside. In an assisted autocaster sort of way. Also note the word ‘tank’ as opposed to ‘drone’ or ‘robot’, suggests manned devices.
Unless there’s a recharge time between magic attacks, carrying the street sign is mostly just showing off…
Assuming that tank is correct, there are people inside, who are supplying the Eidos key(s) necessary, and probably also providing power for the magic attacks. And they definitely do have a recharge time – probably both short and long term.
“…..the security breach so big I could drive a building through is telling me this is important….”
(Is the site a bit different or is my computer just being odd? (Or am I just mis-remembering?) Looks like different fonts/font size for regular text, and maybe slightly wider page….)
Well, yes, but you see, it’s talking about another security breach someone is currently driving a building through… Or is that the line you were deliberately setting up for?
Ah. The internet. The best source of humility. ‘Cuz I thought I was pretty good at this stuff.
Then you show up, and show me up, ‘cuz that probably never would’ve crossed my mind.
I can’t get over that it is apparently using a street sign as a club. I think it looks fairly badass, so no complaints here.
As usual, Mium is one step ahead. Well, probably a few laps, actually.
I was so distracted by trying to figure out the size and assuming it was standing next to a tire and using that for scale I didn’t even notice the street sign. That’s hilarious! ^.^
(Considering how Peter plays things, are you sure Mium’s not already finishing up the next race?)
Someone has been playing Plants vs Zombies.
You done good.
Mech looks good. (kinda reminds me of Zoids for some reason)
Also no grammatical errors that I can see. It’s a pretty good page considering it’s rushed and there’s no Ila around.
I wish my slow and considered, post editing work were half as good as your rushed work with areas you don’t know how to handle.
Thank you, again, for the wonderful stories and characters. Take the time you need next week and in the future.
Well, if we are talking about drawing… remember that my art was this just a few years ago, so no matter where you start, you’ll get better.
I just wish that I had more spare effort to work on the art – I dunno, more energy. I end up always rushing to scratch something out, so am rarely happy with things, plus what I want to draw is always too ambitious.
In the original idea, magic wasn’t really visible so to speak, but when I came up with how to visualize it for the comic… was still complicated. I hope to get closer to what I want someday with the visuals, but… yeah. At this point I will settle for getting better characters expressions and distinctness, as those are probably more important for most of the story.
…I’m rambling again. Good luck with what you are working! 🙂
Personally, I find facial expressions and body language to be what I care about most in comics. Which then makes my attempts at art very frustrating as I’m far better at drawing objects and machinery, and quite bad at drawing people, expressions, and body language. As a result, I’ve never had the patience to get any good at drawing the things I want to draw.
Instead I took up writing, except I’m bad at describing scenes and generally don’t bother, leaving me wishing my story had art to accompany it…