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Run, Heroes!
Doing some more style tests for the upcoming relaunch of The Front, and I thought I’d do a matching desktop for the Run, Mercenaries! one I did a few days back. Click for the full-sized image. Now the...
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Using Tumblr for Webcomics
So as many of you probably know, I’m getting ready to start making a new Front comic. The thumbnails are finished. Now it’s just a matter of making time to build a buffer, then get to posting the pages...
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Drawing for Myself – Inking in Manga Studio
So after seeing Audra Furuichi draw in Manga Studio at the AADL Comic Artists Forum, then watching a demo by Stephen McCranie on Comics Are Great! 46, I just had to set aside some time to play with...
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Drawing for Myself – Using Sketchup for My Settings
Working hard on the new Front comic, entitled Petty Dreadful, and one of the pre-production items I need to take on is the main setting for the story, the MNSA (Multi National Security Agency)...
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Drawing for Myself – Painting the MNSA Building
Last time I showed how I used Google Sketchup to build a 3D model of a major setting in my upcoming Front comic, Petty Dreadful. Today I took on the next step, coloring the image in Photoshop: It’s not...
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Drawing for Myself – Petty Dreadful Progress!
Stole some time today to work on the new Front comic. While I got one page penciled, inked, and flatted all in one afternoon, the truth of the matter is that I’ll have to speed up. I was being far too...
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Petty Dreadful Progress: Changing Gears
So after inking my first page of The Front: Petty Dreadful, I was dismayed. As happy as I was to be working on The Front again, it took far longer to pencil, ink, and flat the first page than I...
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Petty Dreadful Progress: Deciding on a Workflow/Update Schedule
Good news first: The Front: Petty Dreadful, is now updating with its first page. You can see it right now on my Tumblr, and soon on Sugary Serials. Now the “it’s complicated” news: It took a lot longer...
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Petty Dreadful Progress: Introducing Dudley Kourage
With today’s update of The Front: Petty Dreadful, we meet a “new” character. Dick Kourage’s brother, Dudley! I put “new” in quotes because Dudley is actually one of my oldest characters. It’s only now...
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Petty Dreadful Progress: Comics Process, Soup to Nuts
Now that The Front: Petty Dreadful is underway with updates, I plan on blogging the process as I go. I talked about the whys in a recent Lean Into Art podcast. So how do I get from story idea to final...
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