unlimited wonder comics day 3
day 3 prompt: lava
i struggled with the inking of this one. and i don’t feel like i really did the lava justice
here’s the pencils
working on the next steps strip
this rough is pretty rough
but its the building blocks of a new steps strip
scroll – 30dayscomics day 12
gaaaaahhh! i’m still behind!
UPDATE: Replaced this comic. Fixed the timing. Reads much better now. Check out the previous version below. I think you’ll agree:
the couch cushion
i guess this is now the second in a series of couch cushion strips🙂
timelapse of the easter strip
color was really important in this strip (i mean, color is always important for me, and i kind of sweat it when coloring the strip, but color was especially important to the storytelling of this particular strip)
i don’t think this strip could have worked in black and white (and some of my past strips absolutely could have, but i like color…and now i’m not even sure of what my original point was.
anyway, hope you enjoy seeing the strip come together at high speeds, it always seems a minor miracle to me when a strip is finished
coloring easter eggs
paper towel roll timelapse
here’s about 45 minutes of drawing compressed into about 45 seconds
if you watch closely you can see how lazy i am
once i get a good drawing i recycle it in all the panels and just adjust what i need to
search timelapse
here’s the screen capture of me working on the ‘search’ strip from a few days ago
i also reorganized the ‘comics’ menu item so it is just finished strips now. no process videos or sketches making it easier to scroll through past strips without all that junk in the way
so if the sketches, videos, and various other asides that appear between strips aren’t in your wheelhouse, you can just bookmark the comics page and see the most recent strips
paper towels
hey kids! comics!
a new strip for today
it’s been 11 days since the last strip
way too long
but now the wait is over
well, kind of
now you have to wait for the next one
zipper comic timelapse
it is hard to wear a zipper sweater and carry him because he likes to zip up the zipper and catch my neck skin in it
i don’t know if that came across  in the strip or not
not only were the drawings difficult for me on this one, but so was the ‘timing’ of the strip – trying to figure out which moments to show so that the reader understands whats going on and the punchline  is effective
popcorn
visiting grandpa and grandma
search
putting together the pepper strip timelapse
what’s great about this timelapse is it shows how nothing came easy on this one
and when i saw little guy trying to grind pepper with the pepper shaker at the restaurant i thought i had it made
but then i realized i needed to show all of the other times he saw me using a pepper grinder
and none of the drawings came easy
the staging of that last panel was especially difficult. and the drawing was pretty bad. I’m not even sure it is clear what is going on.
even the colors of the strip were dificult. i worried that there would be too many colors in the last panel so i decided to go monotone throughout.
i decided on yellow just because i thought it would be funny to color in the yolks in panel 3.
my first attempt at yellow looked like pee. so i made it bolder.
i’m not sure i agree with that decision.
ultimately i still think the idea was good, but the execution lacked on almost every level.
i think ive mentioned before i have no idea what im doing
the zipper
snowball time lapse
here’s the timelapse of me drawing the snowball comic strip
this is an interesting one to look at because the strip went through so many changes after i stopped recording
i decided to run it vertically
having no expression on the little guy in the last panel felt most right for the ‘punchline’
but even more interesting (to me i guess) was the decision to change the first panel
the close up of little guy packing a snowball seemed to ruin the ‘rhythm’ of the piece
that panel seemed too ‘big’ – too ‘loud’ for the next three panels
for some reason, it seems like the strip works better the smaller the changes between the panels
smaller the changes between panel the more power the final panel seems to have for me
i wonder why that is…
the squirrel
robin timelapse
timelapse of the robin strip from a couple of days ago
i didnt know i was going to erase the pencil lines of the tree until i saw how it looked
so much of the final look of these strips comes out of the doing of them
the final is always different from the idea of them
pepper
robin
the first robin of the year
spotted sunday february 25 2018
chicken noodle soup
laser
cushions
getting this one in under the wire tonight
click on the ‘steps’ tag or click here to scroll through a bunch of these webcomics
snow pants
draw timelapse
when these drawings go by this fast it almost looks like i know what i’m doing