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Hi! This was an existencial and surreal comic of a character that descends down a mole like tunnel, finding different characters in the ways, and having to choose different paths, and in the end it finds an anglerfish like character that tells the main character that any atempt to return is futile.

It was drawn in black and white, almost without shading, and pictured by the side.

Does it ring any bell?

Hi! This was an existencial and surreal comic of a character that descends down a mole like tunnel, finding different characters in the ways, and having to choose different paths, and in the end it finds an anglerfish like character that tells the main character that any atempt to return is futile.

It was drawn in black and white, almost without shading, and pictured by the side.

Does it ring any bell?

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One of the big issues in working on a comic is in figuring out where and when script, layout and illustration are done, because usually those all start fragmented: you have an idea for a cool image and certain things the story needs, but they are not a fully-formed gestalt that fits into the specified page or panel count.

My latest strategy for this is to start by collecting a lot of reference images, then to go ahead and make a 4"x4" panel with a t-square ruler, and sketch in one of the references using some colored pens...and then continue the story from that point, drawing more outside the panel boundaries and just adding text wherever. If I want to try an image multiple times, I have permission to do so.

The rationale is that at the end of this process, I pick up the tracing paper and sample the best stuff into it at any position or angle, then copy it using the "cover the back side in graphite and trace again" technique, ending up with clean pencils that can be inked over directly with little erasing.

Because I started with a certain scale of panel, the relative proportions of the other drawings stay in line with what's needed without resorting to digital edits(although I still use digital to composite). And it acts as a first pass on the drawing that is thumbnail-like and can apply any kind of materials or techniques, which adds fluidity - if the drawing needs a lot of development it can be gone over with different passes of color, and small elements that need a rework can be broken out. At the end of the process, the story has been gotten through(an important milestone) and the remainder of the work is more editorial in nature.

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Official homepage of Pepper&Carrot, a free(libre) and open-source webcomic about Pepper, a young witch and her cat, Carrot. They live in a fantasy universe of potions, magic, and creatures.

Serving you mostly last week’s stuff (and older) because I keep “forgetting” to clean out my file (because I keep “forgetting” to get a new box.)

Anyway! The list: *TMNT vs Street Fighter 1 *Amazing Spider-Man 122 (facsimile) *The Quarry *Frank Frazetta’s Mothman 1 *Sudden Death 1 *Jeff Lemire’s Tenement 1 *Nightmare Country Glass House 3 *Octobriana and the Underground 1 *The Neighbors 2 *Star Wars Mandalorian Season Two 1 *Star Wars Vader Black, White, and Red 1 Momoko cvr *Last Ronin hardcover edition (took me long enough!)

I will try and remember to post back here as I read some of these :) for example I have not seen or read Mando at all so that one is off the table for a bit. I’m also finally working through my backlog a little, which is great but I have literally like two years worth of stuff to read. So.

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