Comic for Monday, April 18th
I’m going to be disappointed if Miko doesn’t have an invisible fairy now… 🙁
And no, I didn’t forget question marks in panel 4. I’ve done that a few times with her speech, frequently just leaving off the question mark. If you try to read her questions as not a question, it should make it sound like her… 😉
Most of the way through updating the character sheet portraits. I’ve redrawn a bunch of them, and added a few more, updated a few bios. Will continue to add new ones and redraw the last few that aren’t redrawn (the MSB people are the last ones). If there are requests for missing characters to be added, just post ’em below.
I bought a car. I’m happy with it, but it cost a bunch (in the sense that cars are just plain expensive, not that it was a particularly expensive one). It probably won’t fall into a pile of parts and bolts while driving. Was starting to worry about that with me old one. I think I’m an easy audience to impress for the new car after coming from a car older than me to a 2016 car; even things like ‘working air conditioner’ and ‘plays music from your phone’ impress me… 😉
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So that’s how Peter gets his money! Now I understand. Mium manipulates international companies stocks years in advance and just uses good investment opportunities. Though… MYM might look at it like paying to keep your parents in assisted living, what with the investment costs and all…
Though MYM might really disagree with me on that. If it helps, I feel guilty for such a … twisted (?) anology.
Meoi Lass
@ PastUtopia
Are you okay? No illness or anything? Or are things just hectic right now? I sympathize with the process of buying new car. And I read the part about your tech conference. But wasn’t most of that last week?
I ask because I noticed that updates changed from M / W / F to Mon. & Thur and, also, how you missed a Thursday update.
Nothing so grand as a proper excuse, just busy. The reality of is that ever since I’ve started the new job in January I’ve had a lot less time. I have a tendency to overwork, and the sort of jobs I end up working have a tendency to encourage overworking, plus it comes with a whole slew of other obligations of various kinds having an office job.
I tend do the vast majority of the comic drawing on the weekend, thus buying the car last weekend is probably in part responsible for this one being late, but also just general busy with stuff.
When I first started the job I was keeping the priority of the comic high, but other things were suffering a bit – I try to run every day, go out a few times a week, etc. I think I can balance those with two a week, but I haven’t been able to build much of a buffer yet.
Ultimate I am looking to find someone to help with the art, but that’s a matter of finding someone that’s right for the job (as this’ll be running for literally years), and while I have a moderate budget for it, it’s not exactly vast. I have some mixed thoughts on it, but would like to free up more time to draw other things as well, so I think that’s the long term, but we are a ways off as I don’t have any promising candidates currently.
Anyway… new comic will be up in a few minutes, update won’t be missed per se, just late 😉
Again with the “annoying”. 🙂
Right about now, Tealy the Hacker-Girl should be beginning to realize just how badly she is outclassed–and by a kid, no less. ^^
Oberon, Titania, and Mium? ^^
King, Queen, and… no… I can’t really see Mium as among the court of the fae… 😛 I think it’d spell great trouble if he turned to mischief though; fae can be more trouble then gremlins and genies combined.
The perspective in that last panel is a little off. It almost looks like her eye is on the side of her face instead of the front. You’ve been doing a great job, so I’m kinda surprised at that one.
I agree that panel is awkwardly done. I frequently have trouble drawing character facing away at an angle, and that’s why we so frequently see them straight from the back of the head when I have them facing off the panel. Pretty much anytime I have to come to terms with the fact that the human head is not, in fact, like a face drawn on a balloon I have some problems with it 😉
It’s the sort of thing I should use some sort of basic 3d or picture reference for until I get at least a vague grasp of what it should look like, but I’m bad about using references at the best of times and currently we are not in the best of times (my art time is a little cramped).
None of this is as an excuse, and I do appreciate the feedback. The art of the comic is just another piece that’s a work in progress.