Comic for Friday, June 5th
This page was fun to draw. Despite nominally being under the impression that I was writing an action comic when I started, it is only very occasionally an action comic so far, so I’ve had pretty little opportunity to actually draw action sequences; hopefully they’ll get better with practice. This page probably has more for-shortening (I think that’s the artsy word) than the rest of the comic combined, as we may recall most previous attempts were really bad, so keep that in mind! 😀 I continue to iterate on effects. There is very little method to the madness with Naomi’s, though I’ve left a bit of an easter egg in the last panel 😀
I would expect that they will frequently be double pages (twice as long) like this one, but I prefer to have the extra space and feel bad about long periods of time in which only a few seconds have passed and nothing has really happened!
I didn’t get quite get to draw everything I wanted into this page and some of the panels didn’t quite live up to what I wanted, but I’m pretty happy with the last one.
For those that have wondered about the various levels of sanity among the cast, perhaps this will help, and by help I mean add fuel to the fire rather than resolve any questions. Are we sure the main characters are the good guys?
Because it’s unlikely to come up in the comic (at least any time soon) it’s worth noting as was discussed in a long ass time ago there are different types of autocasters – what the IDS agent here is a pretty fancy multiple purpose one; it can usually trigger several spells, but at the cost it’s usually more complicated to use and its activation is slower (since you have to select your spell and its activation calculation isn’t as streamlined/specialized for the one spell).
5 updates in a week was fun. I will probably be back to 3 next week, but we’ll see. Next update is Monday either way (unless we get a Patreon bonus page, ofc), but I’ll make sure to put up some new stuff over the week – at least a new sketchbook and maybe something else.
Edit: New incentive is up! Sorry it’s a little late. To be honest I had no idea what to draw; did a few sketches but didn’t much like any of them. I realized I still hadn’t uploaded one and figured I better just put something up! So you got what I was currently drawing. Enjoy! Will be a new (better) one sometime this weekend, so check back sometime 😀
Edit 2: New Incentive… round two! (Just a sketch though) Apparently I lied about the “better” part, haha. I wanted to play around with the powered armor suit design (bet those will never be a plot point) since the Avon one was so bad (though it was supposed to be sorta bad). In the end I spent a fair bit of time sketching things and didn’t end up with a finished product. If I finish one I’ll put it up, but drawing that kind of suit in a finished format (while something I plan to do at some point) takes awhile!
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That last panel she is having way too much fun. o.o
I sort of feel sorry for the IDS guys!
It’s a tough life being a mook. 😀
Hee, hee, Voting Incentive. That’s his motto, all right–love it! ^^
No fair reading it, it’s blurry and mostly obscured! 😛
Chaos vs Order. Always bet on chaos, because even if it doesn’t always win, it’s always more fun to watch.makes her look taller
You really are getting better at foreshortening, although Naomi’s feet may be just a bit too small in panel 2 since she’s closer to us than Peter is–makes her seem taller.
Panel 7 is gorgeous. I particularly like the way the autocaster’s precise spells contrast with Naomi’s wild magic. Oh, and the foreshortening is about right. ^^
The trickle of visitors should be a little heavier, now.
Ignore the last four words in paragraph 1, it’s a glitch. 🙁
I was confused as to how how chaos made people taller, but I figured it out when I read the rest of the comment :D. Totally agree – panel two is pretty screwy. It’s a two fold problem – one I’m pretty bad at foreshortening and two I tend be bad at perspective. When you have both of them in one shot, well, that’s pretty much game over.
A lot of the comic has just been shots of people talking, so my art skills were unprepared for things to actually happen! Fortunately practice makes perfect and I have the feeling I’ll get some practice… I may play with the format more during fight scenes as well, I sort of like the more modern cascading format for action sequences since it gives a little more space and timing, but it would be pure hell if I were to ever print it or something…
Did you miss the part about having gotten better? Your perspective has improved,too.
My laptop loves to scatter words around like that. I have owned three different laptops and have had the same problem with all of them. I don’t know if it’s something I’m doing, or just my bad luck in getting substandard ones. ><
Well, the last last attempt at foreshortening that I recall was this back during the droprover mini arc, which was pretty awful, so yeah, better! Long way to go though 😀 Still I had fun with this page, a few of the panels are pretty awkward but despite the flaws I was pretty happy with the last panel at least.
I was going to fix the comment, but than half the rest of this comment chain wouldn’t make sense. 😀 Good laptops exist, but they tend to be the ones with ludicrous price tags attached.