feeling hulkish today
that is all
drawing whew
a little timelapse showing of the background drawing of the latest steps strip
i forgot to record me drawing and finishing the comic strip
shop is back up!
and the shop is back up!
(thank you wordpress for fixing the bug)
to celebrate, how about a new ‘steps’ strip?
shop back up…but…
shop back up, but that means my archive of webcomics is down:(
wordpress doesn’t know when it will be fixed. they rolled out an automatic update of woocommerce that doesn’t play well with the webcomics plug in
and they can’t roll back the woocommerce update
in the meantime here’s a snippet of timelapse featuring me digtially inking the latest ‘steps’ strip, which you can’t read in the archive, so i’ve posted that below as well…
gah! shop is down but…
i have a solution
woocommerce’s recent auto update broke my store and they can’t roll it back, but in the meantime, while they get things fixed, i hope, if you are interested in a book, simply shoot me an email at tone@screentone.org and we will get you taken care of
here’s a peek at the books:
it’s been awhile, but a new steps strip is up
go now! read it! it’s great! (to be fair, though, i am pretty biased)
it’s been since november of last year that I posted a steps strip, which just seems crazy to me…
spidey and doc ock’s tentacles
doc ock is my favorite spidey villain
working on the next steps strip
this rough is pretty rough
but its the building blocks of a new steps strip
steps volume 2 is printed!
it looks great! and they feel great in hand. find out for yourself
i wish my mom could see these. she would love them
late layout changes to steps volume 2
the nice thing about printing these up myself is that i can make changes late in the game
when i printed up a few copies of steps volume 2, for instance, i was unsatisfied with the size of the images in the book (in a way that i wasn’t with volume 1)
the comics felt too small. they had no oomph. no impact at that size
so i decided to go with a 2 x 2 frame instead of fully vertical
with this change in the layout the images are quite a bit bigger. i didnt realize how important having those panels be as large as possible is – especially since the panel don’t change much
you can still preorder volume 2 in the store. or save some money with a steps 2 pack if you haven’t yet picked up volume 1
my plan is to start printing these no later than april 16
redacted’s dream
this dream’s not mine, it was a friend of mine, but it was a good one to turn in to comics
i wrote down as many dreams as i could remember in march, so i’ll be making more of these
and today i picked up a ream of cardstock, so i’ll start printing copies of steps volume 2 soon. preorder now!
and if you didn’t pick up volume 1 yet, pick up the 2 pack. they look and feel really good
steps volume 2 cover
ok i finally decided what the cover will be for volume 2 of the steps zine
here it is, keeping with the tradition established by volume 1 of using a panel from one of the interior strips
the art file for the book is all set up, now i’ve just got to get them printed up
you can preorder now or if you didn’t yet pick up volume 1, you can preorder the steps 2 pack
putting together steps volume 2
last night, after little guy went to bed, i started laying out steps volume 2 while watching avengers: infinity war on netflix. (it was good. but brutal. spidey’s death was heartbreaking.)
i was going to reveal the cover here, but right before i pressed ‘publish’ i decided to keep it hidden…
volume 2 collects all of the february 2018 comics
volume 1 is still available in the shop. ( i’m biased of course, since it’s me assembling these by hand, but it’s still amazing to me how good these little zines feel. the colors look great too.)
of course you can still read steps here on the website or watch some timelapse videos of the comics coming together
and i’ve started filling my sketchbook with the bones of new strips i can’t wait to get to work on
zines look so beautiful out in the wild
especially with that backdrop
thank you for sharing d pov
truly
u.s. orders only:(
zinefest & a store
here’s the wave of zines i printed last week on display at the zinefest this past weekend
there’s ‘balloon head man,’ collecting the book i serialized on screentone last year
also, ‘steps volume 1,’ a collection of the first 15 steps strips
and, ‘sh*tty sketches,’ featuring my favorite doodles from 2017 – 2018
(the books feel so good in hand… i didn’t expect that)
and maybe this is burying the lede, but i created a store to sell the copies that i didn’t sell
so if you want one you can get one! i’ll mail it to you! u.s. orders only currently:( since i don’t know what i’m doing
printing zines
printed up some zines for a local zine fest this past weekend
just using my desktop printer
for some reason it doesnt like scooping up cardstock in to the feeder on its own so i have to feed the cardstock in sheet by sheet
each book took about a half hour to print
then i fold them staple them and lay bricks down on the books to flatten them out
new hey carl strips
i finally have the hey carl strips together in a collection for easy browsing. theres a few new ones there now
hey carl 5
this might be the worst looking telescope ever drawn
hey carl 4
for some reason i can’t make a new comics collection for these, but if you’d like to catch up, here’s a link
hey carl 3
i dont know what these are yet but now theres three of them
hey carl
i’m starting to dig these guys
4 minute comic challenge
i think it was a 4 minute challenge
via the comics genius and guru lynda barry
loving hilda
we’ve read the first three hilda books by luke pearson so far.
i love their celebration of keeping a sketchbook, reading, coziness, tea and cocoa, and the outdoors.
all of which comes through in the animated series on the netflix.
not only is the animation, music, and voice casting great, but it features an extraordinary color pallete, charismatic character design, and most importantly a lot of heart
peter parker burns the midnight oil
my series of sh•••y drawings continues with peter parker burning the midnight oil
i think i forgot to draw his left arm
is this drawing too sh•••y? can you tell he’s in a dark room looking through a microscope at a sample
well tomorrow’s sh•••y drawing will be better. (though honestly it could be worse.)
onward!
a sh•••y prowler sketch
a sh•••y prowler ink and watercolor sketch based on my memory of the character from the new spidey-verse movie. go see it. it’s so good
is it better to most more often but have more sh***y drawings or less often but fewer s****y drawings?