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a new steps strip is up
it’s been so long since the last one but a new ‘steps’ strip, ‘potty training’, is up almost every other ‘steps’ strip has been done in digital, pushing pixels around but today’s is fully scribbled in pencil, with lots of (kneadable) erasing, then brushing down puddles of watercolor, and finally a bit of inking…
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clearly some self doubt
clearly some self-doubt is creeping in as i continue to play with watercolor
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digging in to the brushes and paints again
what i like about working digitally is not having to see my mistakes for very long i can get through more bad drawings faster but posting old work on screentone is giving me a chance to get back in to the brushes and inks and paints here’s a few stages from a piece last night…
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last of the 2015 everybody comes to raph’s
Here’s the final five 2015 strips of the Casablanca/TMNT mashup webcomic, ‘Everybody Comes To Raph’s by Mcwhitseen and I. It’s been fun to go back through them again since first posting them on the tumbles back in 2015. It’s still staggering to me how well the world’s align You’ve probably noticed the shift in styles over…
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a few more raphs
posted a few more raph’s in the once ongoing, now nongoing mashup of Casablanca and The Teenage Mutant Nina Turtles, co-written with fellow scribe mcwhitsteen, and originally posted on the tumbles you can start from the ‘beginning‘ here, but i’d like to warn you… it’s not the beginning and thank you to Michael Barrett for the…
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more everybody comes to raphs
so if you’ve been reading along in our casablanca/tmnt mashup, the story continues here or you could start here. which was kind of where we started, but its not the beginning of the movie. mostly we skipped around to the parts where we could make pizza jokes. the photo here is one of the sketches…
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a new comics page
I’m pretty excited about the new Comics page I set up. It will give a home to all of the webcomics I’ve made over last few years. Here’s a quick intro to the new (to you) strips: Everybody Comes to Raph’s is the Casablanca/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle mashup that no one asked for. (…
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lunch sketches
doodled with colored pencils and ink pen on lunch break by the lake a month or more ago i remember hating them at the time but now i kind of like them did i already post these?
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analog storyboards
here’s a shot of the original storyboards from the video the other day i guess i did these back in 2006 which doesn’t seem possible…
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timelapse of the airplane drawing
Forgot to turn on the screen capture of me going from the sketchbook sketch to the digital sketch, from yesterday’s on the airplane strip, so here’s the sketchbook sketch: And then the timelapse begins after i get the digital sketch overlaid. As you can tell, I really had some trouble figuring out the color…
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new strip up: on the airplane
a new strip is up (this is a close-up of the sketch) take a look this one gave me a lot of trouble, especially the color i took a more…painterly? approach so the process was pretty…winding a couple of false starts the timelapse video should be pretty crazy:)
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storyboards
These storyboards are from a pitch I made while still in school. (Posting the interactive fiction adapted from an old short story I wrote has me digging into the archives, I guess.) It’s called ‘Gepetto’ and is a familiar story viewed through a new lens. Gepetto, a brilliant toy designer whose abilities with artificial intelligence allow…
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interactive fiction experiment
it’s always frightening to share something new even more so when it is very different from the other stuff i’ve made and shared this is a little experiment in interactive fiction, adapted from a short story i wrote a few years ago the best interactive fiction is more like a choose your own adventure, with…
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dialogue dilemmas and color quandries
I’ve struggled with the idea of using dialogue in ‘steps’ for awhile. I’ve used it a couple of times in one panel strips like this one and this one, but it has never felt right for the four panel strip. So using it the other day was a personal milestone. I hope that it opens…
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timelapse of yesterday’s airport strip
here’s the timelapse of the making of yesterday’s strip, the airport about an hour of creation-time goes by in just over 30 seconds
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drawing yesterday’s downhill strip
here’s a quick look at drawing the latest ‘steps’ strip, downhill you get about 40 minutes of drawing, hemming, and hawing in about 30 seconds i first posted the sketch for the strip back in march
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still doodling
haven’t made many comics lately but I’m still drawing here’s a sketch of the neighbors house
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the scrape timelapse
finally a new strip up, the scrape and here’s the sped up screengrab if you’d like to see how it all came together. or didn’t come together? i’m never sure if these comics work or not.
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scarecrow timelapse
here’s a timelapse of the making of yesterday’s scarecrow strip i’ve also added the webcomics plugin so that you can easily read all of the past ‘steps’ strips. (i don’t know why i call the strips featuring little guy ‘steps’ but i think it works. this plug in lets me keep the latest strip…
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scarecrow
it has been three weeks since my last post, so i hope you enjoy today’s comic as i get back in the swing of things. the first screennotes newsletter ever went out today. you can subscribe here if you like.
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new here?
if you’ve found my cozy little home on the internet from the kottke newsletter (thank you for the signal boost, jason) then I’d like to take a moment and welcome you can i get you anything? you might enjoy the 4 panel dialogueless comics I’ve been working on most recently or check out a few illustrations…
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2:30 am comic strip timelapse
i just realized how wonky the perspective was in the drawing of the doorway and of course you can see how lazy i am when i just copy and paste the doorway from panel to panel view the completed strip
