Characters and Backgrounds … and Compositing Different Styles
when I started putting my webcomic out I'd been drawing for most of my life already, and knew the characters and setting really well. The stories I would figure out as I went…and still do.
Penguins are dressy little birds in white tie that swim like fish and only live in the coldest places on the entire planet, right? Wrong! They live a bit further afield than that, like the good birds of Latitude Zero, living together on the lovely tropical Galapagos Islands, hence the …
I wandered into one of those gaming shops that specialized in acrylic hobby paint, paintbrushes, and miniature figurine kits while locally window shopping for the holiday. The interaction went like this:
Me: “Hello, do you know of any fantasy table-top role playing games happening in the area?”
Happy new year! This is coming out on new year's eve, so it's the very last newspost of 2021, OMG! What a year it's been… our second year of the pandemic and still no end in sight. Hopefully 2022 will change all …
In the behind-the-scenes interviews about the show "Seinfeld", Writer/Creator Larry David talks about the ending of an episode, I think it's "The Marine Biologist".
To sum it up, the show is about fairly normal-yet-eccentric antics of the four characters, including George claiming to be a marine biologist to impress a …
There is a town called Eau Claire in Northwestern Wisconsin, East of Menomonie, and neighbor to Chippewa Falls. Fresh in recent history, the Stick-Figure Apocalypse is a journal comic that began at the start of the global pandemic of 2020 and serves as a written record of the local events …
Photo: (clockwise from upper left) nightmarelunatic’s gift for Andreas_Helixfinger; sleeping_gorilla’s for Tantz_Aerine; lothar’s gift for usedbooks; kawaiidaigakusei’s gift for davidxolukoga; and Tantz_Aerine’s gift for hushicho.
A huge Thank You goes out to all the participants of this year’s Secret Santa gift art exchange! Everyone who signed up followed through and …
What are the chances! It's the first time my day to post in the blog is so perfectly timed for well wishes! So first off, I'd like to wish you all a happy Christmas Day, and if you don't observe it, a joyous day as you …
Merry Christmas! Well, Christmas eve, haha! Today we have a webcomic seasonally themed fashion icon, to whit: Black Santa. He's a distinguished gent with his own particular style and personal fashion and he's happy to experiment and show it off. I hope …
Last December saw the return of iconic hero Luke Skywalker in the Mandalorian. It was a shockingly well-kept secret and I can tell you that I sure didn't see it coming. As a fandom-dweller, it was a beautiful moment that still brings a smile to my scraggly, wrinkled face to …
About 50 years ago people with superpowers started to emerge. This caused chaos and terror as society tried to find a new balance and cope with all these crazy people running around with amazing abilities causing destruction and fear, even vigilantes on the side of justice were a problem. Eventually …
Merry Christmas and whatever you celebrate :) Interesting topic from Banes! It's his idea that sometimes the literal elements of a story (the plot etc.) are simply too weak to properly support …