Tag: stepsprocess
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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
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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?
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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…
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working on the next steps strip
this rough is pretty rough but its the building blocks of a new steps strip
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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…
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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…
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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…
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self-rejected steps strip
here’s a look at the first version of yesterday’s steps strip i hated it when i got done with it the son character was too difficult to distinguish from the background i tried a lot of different things to get the background to ‘fade back’ first i tried erasing it (you can see where the…
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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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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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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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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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procrastinating sketchbook post
No time or energy for a finished strip So you get this sketchbook sketch which isn’t a strip yet Which is definitely the opposite of how it usually works but I’m tired I hope doing it this way doesn’t take away the punch from the eventual strip when I get to it
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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