Tag: digital art
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dream comic
I’ve been recording my dreams for the last few months. Why? I’m not sure, exactly, but it feels foolish not to pay dreams any attention at all. I’m also trying to improve my painting skills, both digital and analog. So, here’s a recent dream sequence in painted comix form. What does it mean? Who knows? […]
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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…
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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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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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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
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the couch cushion timelapse
here’s the timelapse of the couch cushion strip from a few days ago the process usually goes like this: i see a moment in real life that i think will work for the strip: in this case it was watching little guy move the cushion so he could sit down on the couch […]
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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 […]
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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
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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 […]
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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 or read them all here while you wait
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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 […]
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timelapse of recent visiting the grandparents comic
some days you just dont feel like you can draw i think the outstretched arm of grandpa gets lost amongst the squiggles here you’re seeing about an hour and a half go by in about a minute
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popcorn timelapse
lot of struggle in this one replacing panels figuring out the timing figuring out the color
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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 […]
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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 […]