Our pipes sound like a motor boat.

I kid you not. Nearly every time someone turns on the hot water in the kitchen, there is a horrible, moaning groan that reverberates through the house. My room is under the kitchen mostly, so I hear it ALL THE TIME. I'm kind of glad that I'm moving at the end of the month, since we've asked our landlord to fix it, and so far he hasn't done anything. He came, heard the horrible noises, told us he'd be back later, and evidently ran for the hills.

UMMM sketch! right - Messing about a bit with Carmen, who, if we're doing Film noir archetypes here, is your "Virgin" character - unrelentingly sweet and all that

( Sketch below the cut )

In other news Digger is free now. If you weren't reading, or aware of Digger before, go read it now. Ursula Vernon is a supremely talented individual, and Digger is funny as hell sometimes.


Progress: 26 Pages

One of my characters has been frustrating me lately. His motives have gone all ambiguous, and I think he's also suddenly changed roles so drastically in the story so as to become a bad guy. Felix wasn't going to be a bad guy, but  I think he is now.

That is nothing to say with how frustrating it is to draw him consistently. I only manage consistancy with the main character, serpent, because I draw her ALL  THE TIME. Felix is harder to get right, since I'm not sure exactly how  to get the expressions I need on him. Everytime I come out with something I like, it dosen't look like Felix at all.

The first version I ever did of felix over a year ago was pretty close to how I wanted him to be:
( Sketches below... )


Progress : 14 Pages

So, being not content with only ONE comic project, apparently I have to start up a second. This one is short though! I promise myself... ish.

Anyway, I have no compunction about sharing with this one since the first big twist comes on basically the first page - second page if you want to get technical.

I'm not doing any planning for this one. I know the beginning, middle and end of the story, generally, but I'm writing the dialogue as I draw the pages, and I kind of like it this way - I get to focus more on telling the story with pictures instead of words. It its really quite liberating.

I'm on to page three now, and I am already glad of the freedom that being my own writer allows me. I changed the dialouge mid page, and just went with it from there. I even went in an entirely different visual direction with the page than I had originally planned because it made more sense that way. I don't know what it is, but i am much more comfortable working this way. Included under the cut is a snippet of page three, the words modified.

here is a picture just for the hell of it because I feel like wasting my time  - a minor character with little to no purpose that I can think of - because the part one cast isn't girl heavy enough as it is. Alanna, the bad cop to Morris' good one (as far as either is either)




I've  been thinking about  revising the  comic's structure a  bit  and  changing the plot rather alot - there are a bunch of things that I can do with it if I do. I guess it is because I am realizing now more than ever that this is not the story I would write now, as opposed to a year ago. If I make these modifications, it will be both longer and shorter, to be quite cryptic; to be more specific it would abandon three separate parts and change the end to something approximating the original end, back when the comic only had one part.

This could all just be idle speculation/midnight ramblings/ mid exam insanity though, so we'll see

On a semi - related note, for some insane, illogical reason, I'm in the middle of switching to a Dvorak keyboard layout, so this took me about a million years to type. I average a measly 12 WPM right now, but I just made the change about 4 or 5 days ago, and figured out where all the letters were about a day and a half ago (I don't really feel like re labeling my keyboard - this way I know that I am at 100% touch typing, since I can't look at the letters at all) , so it isn't THAT crappy a speed - it's just frustrating as hell, knowing that I can type faster normally. I hope that in the end, I am made a better typer.

Just a two panel scribble, trying to plan out an upcoming scene ( sort of , to the extent that you can  plan something without context)

Also, an excuse to see the protagonist use classic gangster speak ~_^

Practing the facial expressions of the main character - I think she looks best when she's annoyed. You can draw your own conclusions about the first one. I need to practice my low angles alot more

( Cut for Sketches )