January - 2021

Where The Work Things Are

Jan 30
3 min

Where The Work Things Are

Today is about digital clean-up. Since this is my first time really doing digital clean-up on my comics pages, I had to learn by experimenting. Scan all pages. Touch-up colors and contrast where needed. Bring the pages into my Photoshop layouts. Make selections of every panel from the pages, one page at a time, cut, then paste onto their own layer. Add a stroke layer around each. Arrange the panels into their proper areas of the page. Merge the panels back into one page, and

Things I Learned About Making Comics While Making Comics

Jan 29
3 min

Things I Learned About Making Comics While Making Comics

I was originally writing this post to talk about how I'm going to get The Nightmare Tree sent off to the printer this weekend but made that a Tweet instead. Last night, I finished the art for those pages and I'm scanning them as we speak. So let's talk about what I learned from working on this book as I go into work on The Golden Apple. First, character design and development. I talked about this on stream last night, and I mean every word of what I said. Part of my pre-produ

One Act Update

Jan 21
1 min

One Act Update

So let me get this out while I'm thinking about it! Golden Apple is the story of an adventurer giving her lover a literal golden apple as an engagement gift. It's literally a romantic "Will you marry me" gesture. The twist? Her lover has one for her, too. I was struggling with this story because... I tend to edit ideas as they come and move on them until I know where they're going. I figured this one out. My original idea for this story was very different. So the two are walk

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