Vacation Time

As some of you may or may not know, I am going to Utah soon to go to Nerdtacular 2013.  I feel awful that I haven't been putting up comics lately and I know that I won't be able to get a full comic out this coming week.  That said, here is a work in progress from the next Renovation page.  It is only black and white and it is cropped down, as the last three panels aren't quite done, but whatever here it is.

So here we go.  This page should be finished around the 13th.  I will probably re-draw the face in the first panel.  Sorry, I am sort of rushed writing this so I think that is it.  Have a great week guys!

Sorry Folks! Allow me to explain.

So you may have noticed that I haven't been putting comics out for the last two weeks.  Last week, I did some apology with vague hand waving "I've been busy" blog post; but I figure I should give full disclosure on whats been going on. 

I am currently working on a board game.  It is in the middle of development so I can't really say anything about it other than it is pretty cool and I am doing all of the art for it.  As it turns out, that is a bunch of art.  Because of this I have been creatively drained in my downtime where I would normally make pages of Renovation or little black and white strips. 

This week I am leaving to Nerdtacular 2013 in Salt Lake City and so I won't have a strip out.  My plan for when I get back from this vacation is to find a balance and be able to get weekly comics out like I use to.  I am quite determined to do this, so please keep an eye out, this blog isn't dead yet.

Sorry for the prolonged absence, here is a drawing I did a year or two ago for some DND campaign.

Sorry Folks!

Hey everybody!  My apologies for not having a comic out this week.  Things have been strange, and as we all know when your a stranger faces look ugly when your alone.

In any case, there should be a comic next Sunday.

Robots Can't Love 2

Is this a lazy retread?  Maybe.  But I like the gag; it is the type that bludgeons you.

I started to think about it and I am not sure I agree with the premise of this comic.  As funny and dark as I find a robot in cheesy situations failing to understand emotion I feel like a bit of a hypocrite.  I do think that eventually if AI gets complex enough they would understand love and emotion.  Whew- now that I have that off my chest I can go back to whatever the hell it is I do.


How was your week?  Mine disappeared and then it was Sunday.  I can never tell if that is a good or bad thing.  I honestly can't tell what I feel about it.  All I know is that it is not apathy.  Or is it!?  People say that time goes by faster the older you get.  I don't think I agree with that.  I agree that older people have more shit to get done and so it seems like there isn't enough time to do everything you want or need to do.  But even still I seem to find myself caught in lengthy moments of work or play where everything seems so utterly stagnant. 


In any case, it has been a good and productive week.  I have thoroughly enjoyed it and I wish the same for all of you.


Here's to hope that the next week will be the same,
-K

Renovation Page 4

Hey everyone, sorry I am late.  This is as good a time as any to talk about scheduling.  From now on this comic is going to update on Sundays.  This just works out much better with how my week is typically planned out.

In other news I graduated with my BFA this week and so it has been kinda hectic; hence the late comic.

But back to business.

No playlist for this comic.  The vast majority of this was done in silence, it was just one of those weeks.  Probably the earliest sketches were done to the new Daft Punk album; but I can not be sure. 

So linework.  You may remember that in my last blog post I talked about how I was not satisfied with my lines.  Well this week I feel is a bit of an evolution but I am still not satisfied.  I was mindful in some of the panels to have a thin hesitant sort of stuttery line, just to see how that would work out.  In the end I feel like it was equal parts good and bad. It seems like where I used this type of line things seemed to fall apart.  Shapes are made, but they don't know what they are exactly; almost like they are perpetually on the verge of rattling apart.  I am not sure how I will move forward in the next page.  My guess is that I will focus a lot more on the line, cross hatching, fully blacked out shadows, that sort of thing.  That said, there is a chance that I might make things even flimsier just to see what happens.  I did have moments of weakness (panels 2 and 3) where I fell back onto a thicker line made with a more confident stroke.  So maybe the answer is to expunge that idea completely with no regrets or second thoughts.

Colours are coming along.  I have always felt that they are my weakness and I feel like I am getting a better grip.  I am still trying to stay away from anything too painterly, but at the same time I am giving myself some room away from a purely graphic approach.  I have a hunch that I might have gone overboard with the textures a little in this page.  I have been hesitant to use them in my digital work, I feel like some people use texture to cover up bad drawings or colour choices and I don't want to do that.  All in all I am happy with the colour, though I think I should have made things a little bit lighter.

 I am happy with page layout.  Nothing is too adventuress but then again not everything has to be.

As far as story is concerned I am biting at the bit to get past this prologue and introduce the full cast, but I do want to take things slow; it is a thriller after all.

I can't think of much else to say about this one.  Thanks for reading and have a good week.

Jeff K.

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