Art Blog

Lifeguard

Just a drawing of the Saturday Tales character Johann. Eventually I want to do character bios and this is testing the waters.

Food Inks

I like looking back on my old sticky note character drawings because it reminds me which characters have made it into a comic or not. The mustached dog just popped up in my last story and the Canadian goose was in my very first. The bow tie goose and fox haven't appeared in anything yet.

Home & Away Updated

I updated the comic Home & Away with a new page! I realized in an upcoming story I needed Plum have already graduated to a scholar witch. The possibility was only mentioned in the in the first story but it happening needed to be prior knowledge for the reader otherwise I would need to info dump that it happened off screen. So I decided to add it to the montage of scenes that make up the Home & Away short story. For context I like doing these "short stories" between longer stories that just basically shows what characters were up to. The shorts Beach Day and Balloon Day show the first dates between various characters.

When you own and control your work you can make adjustments whenever you want. Kind of like how J. R. R. Tolkien making revisions to LOTR well into his retirement. Do what you want with your work. Your uniqueness is what separates your work from the corporate studio stuff.

Pizza Confession

I like all pizza. Even the weird ones. I'll never turn down a pie I haven't tried. There are so many good ones. Give me a Deep dish, cracker crust, folded single slice, St. Louis style, proper Marietta, or even Altoona style pizza and I'll be in heaven. But my comfort food favorite is Sriracha and pineapple. You need a good hot sauce otherwise the sweetness, that grosses some people out, can overpower the balance. Smaller pineapple chunks are better or you run the risk of lava bombing your mouth.

First & Eighth

Last week I posted a comparison of the two versions of the first page of my first comic. One version being the original from 2020 and the other being the updated art version. Here is the fourth page from the updated version of my first comic compared to the first page of my eighth comic.

As I'm posting these pages I already see I'm missing the "shines" and thicker outline on the new page. So I lot my train of though and I'm off to fix my page.

I just notice both pages has Plum saying whiskers as a curse word.