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This was my first "test panel", which I partially showed already, to prep for how I might handle background shots.
some strips will feature these sweeping backgrounds and simplified character silhouettes, although I do intend to do a lot more character art than backgrounds!
I wanted to test out the workflow and see how it felt to gather resources for a panel, do a quick pass on ink, color, and dialogue.
some of my early planning sketches of our protagonists.
Sky (they/them) was an airship mechanics apprentice before getting dragged into the salvage corps. They've never left home before and now they're experiencing the whole wide world, with equal parts dread and excitement
Ruko (she/her) is a mage from ????. She's laid-back, occasionally whimsical. Says she's never been this way before, but always seems to know where to go and who to talk to.
my #webcomic project that i've been cooking on for a little bit:
Stars Light Our Path is a warm fantasy journey following scavengers Sky and Ruko as they travel through strange forests, windswept ruins (perhaps some haunted boneyards as well), reclaiming old tech and magic to clear their debts and get a chance to start new lives.
It's a learning project for me and it'll release on an "as its made" basis, but the first strip will be out next week, with more soon :)
- oh by the way are you going for square images for social media sake or a wide rectangle format OR tall, page format
- oh right and what resolution do you want this to be at
- hey have you thought about a website
- hey have you thought about what comic viewer software to use for your website you've totally thought about
- what do you characters look like
- how do they talk
- what do your backgrounds look like
- do you want to do constant "in-location" backgrounding, or simplify to just colors/gradients after you've established a scene
- what fonts do you use
- what colors do you use
- what do your speech bubbles look like
- what do your Exclamation!! bubbles look like
- are you doing lots of sound effects, what are those like
- what's your framing gonna look like
- hey how do you wanna put the title on there
hey did you know, that making comics is just like, a LOT of decisions?
make a thousand decisions before the first strip ever gets posted. heck, before it gets drawn.
face sketchiiin tonight
are you a creative who's:
👀 looking to keep warm this winter?
😏 stuff your stockings?
🥴 add a little spice to your nog?
😈 some other holiday related euphemism?
well why not join us in celebrating The *Fucking* Holidays by making some horny art/writing/suggestive woodworking/<insert creative pursuit here> this December?