Here's a non front page blog.
I understand not everyone has facebook and twitter so I am going to make an effort to post things like the art that I put on the fb here as well.
I was just looking over a calendar and at the current rate of release and chapter 1, which is 25 pages (all chapters are), will conclude on August 1st. Now I am ok with this, it will take a while to get through but I am fine with that production rate especially while I have work. Please keep in mind what I am about to state is NOT decided, NOT set in stone, and has a possibility of NOT happening. While maintaining the current update schedule through the conclusion of chapter 1 I would like to, at some point, be producing more pages per week. Right now I am working on a commission comic so I am already kind of producing two pages a week but because of this as you have seen sometimes it is a mad dash to get avernyght up on time so I couldn't possibly increase production until that project is finished. That being said what my tentative plan is is while through the end of chapter 1 the update schedule would not change I would try and produce 2 pages a week. The best time for this production would be the summer as since I am a teacher I have summer break (I might work an art camp if I feel like it but I am sorely tempted to just take the full 2 months off). If I could accomplish this to a fair degree then starting with Chapter 2 I could attempt a biweekly schedule rather than once a week. My main goal is for Whisp's Journey, which is in truth a 4 chapter story, to not take me 4 years to complete. I have too many Avernyght stories and the longer I take telling one the more others come to me.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Monday, March 21, 2011
Extremely Small simple page
I'm not cheating here I promise!
I know in light of recent "non proper" updates this page may look like cutting corners or something but trust me this is 100% how I wrote it over a year ago. And you know what. I still think it works. Sure it's not a large page and there is very little dialoge but this page right here is an information dump. A visual information dump. That map may look mighty familiar and it should. That map was made then used on the webpage you are looking at right now so yay.
The origin of the map is pretty neat. Well at least I think so.
In one of my uni classes we were doing paper marbling and some friends borrowed some gold paint of mine to use and when they were done let me pick one of their marbled pieces to keep since I had helped them. Well I took one look at it and saw, finally, Avernyght. I took it into photoshop, broke it down, and eventually made what you see here.
So there it is in all its glory in all its stages. Until I saw this I didn't think about Avernyght being SO full of water. But when I saw it everything clicked into place. This also made Whisp's story fall into place, I knew what I had to do when I saw this map.
I know in light of recent "non proper" updates this page may look like cutting corners or something but trust me this is 100% how I wrote it over a year ago. And you know what. I still think it works. Sure it's not a large page and there is very little dialoge but this page right here is an information dump. A visual information dump. That map may look mighty familiar and it should. That map was made then used on the webpage you are looking at right now so yay.
The origin of the map is pretty neat. Well at least I think so.
In one of my uni classes we were doing paper marbling and some friends borrowed some gold paint of mine to use and when they were done let me pick one of their marbled pieces to keep since I had helped them. Well I took one look at it and saw, finally, Avernyght. I took it into photoshop, broke it down, and eventually made what you see here.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Seriously you guys I have no clue
Prepare thyself for a non phoned in blog. See I PROBABLY could have gotten the shading done but I need some air before bed. I did this whole page in a day and damn I'll be straight with you that is hard for me. That kind of comicing leads to Mv burnout and no one wants that. Now I know alot of spectacular people who can do it, do it well, and have more than one running comic. But then again I know some crazy people. I am actually currently working on a very late commission comic so I am essentially trying to get two comic pages done a week and damn it it's hard. Like I said I am just not built for that..
But lets talk about this page, which will be shaded before the end of the day I just have work first and lets face it, molding young artists is important.
NEW WORD BUBBLE FORMAT! I will be going back through the first few pages and changing this about them. I like the new format, it's less lazy and I can save some of the art that was getting covered up. I think I've learned more in my past year of NOT making comics than I did in the years I WAS making comics simply because I was paying more attention to other comics.
So as I know I have mentioned before I really like Raaweh. I'm not entirely sure why, it's one of those occasions that you hear writers/comicers talk about where the character begins to write themselves. He is one of the 100% original to me characters but I feel about him the way I feel about other peoples characters in comics I like. I am a fan girl for my own character. And that's weird to me. But on the point of a character dictating things without the authors control today I noticed something I did not know about my character. Raaweh is left handed. He is consistently left handed. And I never knew it. I just instinctively drew him using his left hand. Strange yes?
But lets talk about this page, which will be shaded before the end of the day I just have work first and lets face it, molding young artists is important.
NEW WORD BUBBLE FORMAT! I will be going back through the first few pages and changing this about them. I like the new format, it's less lazy and I can save some of the art that was getting covered up. I think I've learned more in my past year of NOT making comics than I did in the years I WAS making comics simply because I was paying more attention to other comics.
So as I know I have mentioned before I really like Raaweh. I'm not entirely sure why, it's one of those occasions that you hear writers/comicers talk about where the character begins to write themselves. He is one of the 100% original to me characters but I feel about him the way I feel about other peoples characters in comics I like. I am a fan girl for my own character. And that's weird to me. But on the point of a character dictating things without the authors control today I noticed something I did not know about my character. Raaweh is left handed. He is consistently left handed. And I never knew it. I just instinctively drew him using his left hand. Strange yes?
Monday, March 7, 2011
OMFG YOU GUYS IT'S RAAWEH
Sorry about that. As I said some things came up and the page was late. and I know I said 1 om but hubby took me out today so 7 pm is what you get but it's still Monday so there.
I am constanty tryign to find a faster way to get the page quality and look that I want. I think I may have found something. Time will tell. I think the page looks great and similar enough. I want to preserve the painterly look I don't want to go cel like the old comic. But I don't want the dudge burn look junkRIOT had..if anyone even remembers junkRIOT...sometimes I even forget that I did junkRIOT. Except when I am in remake mood.
So I love Uber but tell him goodbye I think he's only got 2 pages left? And I think he's only in about 2 panels from here out. I may write him in in some meanwhile back at the ranch type things but for now this is pretty much the last time you see him until the end.
I think I spent a great deal already talking about Raaweh so I guess I won't this time. I already told you where he came from. I think he's the bees knees. He has grown so much since I first conceived him. I hope he is received well, before this the last time you saw him was only 2 pages here. I was so excited when his original pages went up and oddly enough those had to go up and get colored later...heh...
I'm gonna go work on next week's now so I am not latey mclate pants again.
I am constanty tryign to find a faster way to get the page quality and look that I want. I think I may have found something. Time will tell. I think the page looks great and similar enough. I want to preserve the painterly look I don't want to go cel like the old comic. But I don't want the dudge burn look junkRIOT had..if anyone even remembers junkRIOT...sometimes I even forget that I did junkRIOT. Except when I am in remake mood.
So I love Uber but tell him goodbye I think he's only got 2 pages left? And I think he's only in about 2 panels from here out. I may write him in in some meanwhile back at the ranch type things but for now this is pretty much the last time you see him until the end.
I think I spent a great deal already talking about Raaweh so I guess I won't this time. I already told you where he came from. I think he's the bees knees. He has grown so much since I first conceived him. I hope he is received well, before this the last time you saw him was only 2 pages here. I was so excited when his original pages went up and oddly enough those had to go up and get colored later...heh...
I'm gonna go work on next week's now so I am not latey mclate pants again.
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