How are you doing, comic-wise?

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Thu Oct 10, 2013 5:11 am

Well to be fair most old people smell pretty odd.....

Cope · Post by **Cope** » Thu Oct 10, 2013 9:51 am

I just finished drawing what I think may be the second biggest page I've ever done. Phew.

VeryCuddlyCornpone · Post by **VeryCuddlyCornpone** » Thu Oct 10, 2013 1:53 pm

I'm just truckin along. Just truck truck truckin.

I have another page going up later this weekend and that- barring whatever- brings me to the halfway point in this chapter. But I have a weird craving to sit down and script out the next chapter. Maybe I'll do it, just briefly. I'm a little worried about whether I can realistically do the little jaunt I'm envisioning just yet, on the one hand it's kind of important and can afford to wait, on the other hand without it the chapter would be pretty hollow.

I think I'll just go for it.

And I've been practicing figure drawing lately, about 15/20 minutes a day, and I can already feel things getting easier, though weirdly I'm finding female bodies much easier than male bodies (the reverse is true for faces, maybe I just need to start drawing exclusively transsexuals). To reward myself for being a big girl and doing grown-up real-artist-looking practice, I'm also doing one fun sketch of whoever I'd like before I go to bed at night, to get comfortable with what I'm doing during the practices and seeing how it can be applied to the comic.

A lot of my time is spent reading up on the winning comics of the smack jeeves awards and doing those little write-ups. Which has been mostly fun except for the fact that some (a small minority, mind you) of the comics I've found to be almost unbearable to read and process, which makes writing their brag-blurbs challenging. Oh well, no accounting for taste I suppose. Either way people seem to appreciate it so it's cool. Reading through such a variety of comics is just making me more excited to work on my own at the end of the day, which is really nice. It's not like a "I can do better than them" or "Maybe I can be as good as this person" type thing, just kind of rekindling my desire to tell stories

Sorry for treating this thread like a fecking personal art blog

Warren · Post by **Warren** » Thu Oct 10, 2013 3:54 pm

VeryCuddlyCornpone wrote:maybe I just need to start drawing exclusively transsexuals

Favorited, but only if they're M2F...

RobboAKAscooby · Post by **RobboAKAscooby** » Fri Oct 11, 2013 8:57 am

VeryCuddlyCornpone wrote:Reading through such a variety of comics is just making me more excited to work on my own at the end of the day, which is really nice. It's not like a "I can do better than them" or "Maybe I can be as good as this person" type thing, just kind of rekindling my desire to tell stories

I know the feeling, I've been re-reading Sluggy Freelance (my gateway webcomic) lately and it's got me pumped up for my new comic.

VeryCuddlyCornpone wrote:Sorry for treating this thread like a fecking personal art blog

We want this!!!

Cope · Post by **Cope** » Fri Oct 11, 2013 3:17 pm

Well, Drunk Duck just came back after a two-month server crash. Right now, I'm trying to decide if it's even worth uploading my backlog.

Terotrous · Post by **Terotrous** » Fri Oct 11, 2013 10:54 pm

Progress on my second novel is going good, I've gotten to the point where the characters are well-established enough that some of it is starting to write itself.

VeryCuddlyCornpone · Post by **VeryCuddlyCornpone** » Sat Oct 12, 2013 6:50 am

Terotrous wrote:Progress on my second novel is going good, I've gotten to the point where the characters are well-established enough that some of it is starting to write itself.

That's the coolest feeling in the world.

RobboAKAscooby · Post by **RobboAKAscooby** » Sat Oct 12, 2013 8:48 am

Just finished the first page of my new comic. Yay me!

VeryCuddlyCornpone · Post by **VeryCuddlyCornpone** » Sat Oct 12, 2013 2:05 pm

RobboAKAscooby wrote:Just finished the first page of my new comic. Yay me!

Hell yes!!

It's getting to that time of year again, where I get that itch to redesign the site again. I have an idea that I think will look more pleasing and less amateur and maybe inspire more people to stick around and read. I have a nice idea for an image to replace the one currently on the gateway page, and I'm going to break up the space with a main div so that the background isn't just a dark gradient void, make things look a little less grim.

But what I really need to do before anything else is make a new banner. Got an idea, not sure if it's dumb. It might not work for a 468x60 because I always overestimate the vertical allowance there. I could definitely use it in a 728x90. Whatever, I have two ideas.

The page I worked on last night, just sketching it, but it took a really, really long time, and I hit a wall at one point, but then I was like "no fucker work through this" and I stumbled past and got to the end, and am actually very pleased with it! Time to ink and color it and destroy the magic

Komiyan · Post by **Komiyan** » Wed Oct 16, 2013 4:43 pm

Cope wrote:Well, Drunk Duck just came back after a two-month server crash. Right now, I'm trying to decide if it's even worth uploading my backlog.

Goddamn, how many times is that now? I hear Smackjeeves is a pretty good alternative right now.

Terotrous · Post by **Terotrous** » Fri Oct 18, 2013 8:17 pm

VeryCuddlyCornpone wrote:
Terotrous wrote:Progress on my second novel is going good, I've gotten to the point where the characters are well-established enough that some of it is starting to write itself.
That's the coolest feeling in the world.

I think I would rate it as the second-coolest feeling in the world. Actually finishing something is the best (though virtually unattainable in practice as I'm sure all of us can attest).

Cope · Post by **Cope** » Fri Oct 18, 2013 10:54 pm

Komiyan wrote:
Cope wrote:Well, Drunk Duck just came back after a two-month server crash. Right now, I'm trying to decide if it's even worth uploading my backlog.
Goddamn, how many times is that now? I hear Smackjeeves is a pretty good alternative right now.

I actually signed up with them earlier this year when Drunk Duck had a shorter server crash. I haven't got the whole archive up on SJ (there's no quick way to upload 500+ pages), but it is a lot more reliable. Drunk Duck's been good to me in the seven years I've been with it...I even got featured there in 2009...but I think it's time to let go.

Terotrous wrote:I think I would rate it as the second-coolest feeling in the world. Actually finishing something is the best

I find it slightly depressing, personally.

VeryCuddlyCornpone · Post by **VeryCuddlyCornpone** » Sat Oct 19, 2013 7:27 am

Cope wrote: I actually signed up with them earlier this year when Drunk Duck had a shorter server crash. I haven't got the whole archive up on SJ (there's no quick way to upload 500+ pages), but it is a lot more reliable. Drunk Duck's been good to me in the seven years I've been with it...I even got featured there in 2009...but I think it's time to let go.

Has the batch upload option helped at all? I know it's a bit more cumbersome than just manually ftping a shitton of files like on ComicGenesis, and I'm not sure how many pages you can upload at once (if there's a limit), but it shaves a little bit of time.

Cope · Post by **Cope** » Sat Oct 19, 2013 3:29 pm

Is that the option that comes up when I click Add Multiple Comic Pages? It was okay for uploading the 40 or so pages that existed of Book II at the time, but not so great for uploading the 491 pages of Book I.

VeryCuddlyCornpone · Post by **VeryCuddlyCornpone** » Sat Oct 19, 2013 5:34 pm

Cope wrote:Is that the option that comes up when I click Add Multiple Comic Pages? It was okay for uploading the 40 or so pages that existed of Book II at the time, but not so great for uploading the 491 pages of Book I.

Yeah it is, and I see what you're saying. It's still a little cumbersome but i guess it's just the way the system is set up. And it's not like you can just do it in batches of like 50 at a time because that would be really confusing to a reader who happened to come along at that time (unless you do some sort of "under constructoin" thing)

JSConner800 · Post by **JSConner800** » Mon Oct 21, 2013 9:22 pm

We've finally finished our website renovations, which we started right around the time WAY began. Our About page now has all its unwieldy text hidden in jaunty collapsible menus, and there are even some images thrown in to spice things up. If anyone's feeling adventurous, we'd like some feedback, especially since the site tends to look very different on different browsers, monitors, font sizes, etc. So if it looks weird to you for any reason, we need to know about it so we can make adjustments.

If you want to take a look, the About page is here:
http://www.steelsalvationcomic.com/about.html

chainmailbikini · Post by **chainmailbikini** » Mon Oct 21, 2013 10:14 pm

That's really sharp lookin! No problems on my computer.

JSConner800 wrote:We've finally finished our website renovations, which we started right around the time WAY began. Our About page now has all its unwieldy text hidden in jaunty collapsible menus, and there are even some images thrown in to spice things up. If anyone's feeling adventurous, we'd like some feedback, especially since the site tends to look very different on different browsers, monitors, font sizes, etc. So if it looks weird to you for any reason, we need to know about it so we can make adjustments.

If you want to take a look, the About page is here:
http://www.steelsalvationcomic.com/about.html

Sortelli · Post by **Sortelli** » Tue Oct 22, 2013 9:08 am

I've been making a fool out of myself privately trying to design super cool forward and back icons for my comic (and deleting every single one I've tried) and dragging my feet on actual production even though I finally ironed out my script issues. BUT last night I finished painting the cover of the next chapter so updates ahoy!

edit: check it out http://sortelli.deviantart.com/art/Alch ... -408859309

VeryCuddlyCornpone · Post by **VeryCuddlyCornpone** » Tue Oct 22, 2013 11:32 am

Sortelli wrote:I've been making a fool out of myself privately trying to design super cool forward and back icons for my comic (and deleting every single one I've tried) and dragging my feet on actual production even though I finally ironed out my script issues. BUT last night I finished painting the cover of the next chapter so updates ahoy!

edit: check it out http://sortelli.deviantart.com/art/Alch ... -408859309

i went to high school with a girl who could leave that handprint

she was goofing around one day and grabbed onto something and jumped and the last two joints of her finger got ripped off by her class ring

it a cool picture u made

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