Yet Another Web Comic

Wow. Big thanks to Tracy Butler of http://www.lackadaisycats.com/. She`s got a series of art process pages which don`t go into great detail but have helped me tremendously. Seriously, setting my linework layer mode to “multiply” instead of “normal” has made a huge difference. Oh, and her art just simply blows me away. Plus, I like the era and the story style. I can`t recommend her work enough — It has helped me realize quite a few things, which I will be working on improving. Go today. Send her an e-mail and tell her that her work is awesome.

I originally wanted to take this to the female character feeling like she was trapped in the house playing games all day, so work was to give her purpose beyond the house. It was a tie-in to a few days back when I pulled that Thoreau quote (one of maybe half a dozen out-of-context quotes I use) out of my…brown paper bag of out-of-context quotes. I couldn`t tie it together, so I went this way. Hopefully it was a cheap laugh. It`s not what I wanted, and I set this arc up for this, but it`ll work. I hope I covered up my lack of writing ability pretty well.

I like the “He Said / She Said” style comics, but I wanted to do something I hadn`t seen before. I hope this is a new, or at least uncommon, style for you as well. It was a lot of fun to do, but I`m still getting the hang of basic brush work and I had a bit too much ink for this one.

It`s weird seeing this colored and put up for the first time today — I`ve had this drawn for five days and inked for three. I`m used to being barely on time, so it`s weird to have known about this strip for close to a week. Usually I have ideas floating around, but ideas and sketches are not the same as even a penciled strip. I feel like this is old news, but I keep forgetting this is new to you. Enjoy.