I don’t like this strip quite as much as the last one, because the last one had mushroom pizza. But if I squint, it looks like maybe DK is standing on pizza in the last two panels. That’d be a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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I’m getting better with watercolors. This isn’t all dissolved crayon. There are some actual paints in there, and they look a lot smoother. Some tiny experiments in blending (see the orange grease in the pizza cheese?). But I’m also using[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This comic is not as good as it could be. Not #075 specifically, but all of them. Sure, making 75 is something of a milestone. (They’re all milestones if you look at it a certain way.) It’s almost been a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hand lettering rules. Hand lettering forever. (The speech bubbles are just a lot easier to draw.) Maybe I should try pasting computerized text into hand-drawn bubbles . . .
I’ve come to the realization that lettering is the worst part of making a comic. There are too many words in this one. Yeah, I wanna write a lot of stuff for Octopus Kid’s spooky story — but when you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I feel good about this one. It looks even better without speech bubbles, if you’re kind enough to ignore the awkwardly non-Euclidean bed. Still going back and forth on handwritten vs. digital lettering. Anyone going to the Plaza Art Fair[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A maybe-or-maybe-not-so-subtle change in the process for today’s comic: the lettering was done digitally. My hand lettering looks pretty bad, I think, and I was kinda hoping it wouldn’t look as bad if I made a hasty compooter-font out of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Kansas City Royals are doin’ so good right now, and it’s hard not to be excited. This past week they keep setting new records for Most Watched Royals game, and we just beat the Red Sox twice in a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s comic is sorta strange, materially speaking. I ran out of heavier watercolor paper, what I’ve been using recently; so instead I used a lighter, less textured paper for mixed media. I think it’s easier to dissolve the waxy crayon[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was gonna do a process post for this one, but I forgot to take pictures during inking and coloring. I’ll do another sometime soon. You can look at this instead! This is a comparison of different coloring methods. I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…