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building a toolkit
Fucking around with some brushes. The two sets of strokes on the right are the exact same bristle brush, except with some Appearance panel trickery applied to the right-hand copy. Most of the solid...
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tentative specifications
I sure looked at a lot of fonts today. This morning’s ‘playing with techniques for Drowning City’ turned into ‘picking fonts for Drowning City’. Walt Kelly’s work taught me the power of careful font...
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Drowning City: toolbox
I’d made a couple of little test fragments, but I felt it was time to do a real test image for The Drowning City. As I did this, I tried to codify what I was doing into a handful of styles. For Rita,...
View Articlelaurels: not to be rested upon.
I’m looking at the final version of that Drowning City test image I did yesterday and I am delighted: it looks exactly like the way it looked in my head when it started coming together in the winter of...
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More events in a sequence.
Stuff I did today: I joined a hashtag going around on Twitter. #fourcomics that were important to you as a creator/fan. I couldn’t keep it down to just four so I posted twice: Thrice, actually, if you...
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process: drowning city cover sketches
Today I started seriously fooling around with the site style for The Drowning City. After some work on the computer, I decided I needed to work out the image for the landing page – essentially, the...
View ArticleA brief worry about race and character design.
This article about how Schulz added a black character to Peanuts has me thinking. I can sympathize with his fear of Doing It Horribly Wrong; I’m slowly dealing with a little of that myself as I work on...
View Articleat long last, a beginning
This morning, I opened up Illustrator. And I opened up the template I’d made at my table at APE. And I opened up a script. And the experimental drawings. And I roughed out the first page of Drowning...
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Drowning City: first step.
These are the first two finished panels of The Drowning City. They look pretty much exactly like I envisioned the comic looking fourteen years ago when it started to really take shape. They took a bit...
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some comics reviews and some comics making
Yesterday, I went out to a cafe with the intent of getting some work done on Drowning City. Instead I just sat there doing a couple of smaller things that needed doing and staring glumly at the last...
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