Rough Draft Comic For 6/22/09
[Originally Published On 6/22/09]
This is the follow up to “Special Delivery.”
Rough Draft Comic For 6/5/09
[Originally Posted 6/5/09]
E3 09 seems to have been all about jumping around in front of your TV instead of sitting on the couch.
Rough Draft Comic for 6/3/09
[Originally Posted 6/3/09]
[Update 5/15/13: I made this comic specifically for me and any other old school Conan fans that might be reading at the time, knowing full well that essentially no one else would get it. This comic is about as weird as those early years of Conan. Back with no one was reading HE, no one was watching Conan and we could get away with anything.]
Original Script for “In The Year 2000…”
[Originally Posted 6/4/09]
Yesterday I posted the original rough art for this comic. Here is the original script before editing. I usually post these with annotation in red, so you can see who is supposed to be talking and such. I’m going to post this one as I wrote it to give you a better idea of how I write. I never actually assign lines to characters in the script or mark which panel is which.
so conan o’brien is obi-wan?
pay attention. carson is palpatine. leno is count dooku, the former apprentice and conan is anakin, the one that will bring balance to late night tv.
so conanakin decapitates count lenooku?
exactly! just as sith lord carnidious planned.
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so who’s andy richter?
obviously he’s c-3po. conan built him from scratch, he served his master humbly, then they were separated for a number of years.
seems like r2 is a better fit for andy.
r2 is pimpbot 5000.
where my beep-boop-itches at?
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wait… that means chewbacca is…
the masturbating bear!
Rough Draft Comic For 5/29/09
[Originally Posted On 5/28/09]
[Update 5/15/13: I made this comic about the Jossless “Buffy” movie rumor that was floating around 4 years ago. I’d say it’s been long enough that we’re out of the woods, but no bad idea in Hollywood ever truly dies.]
Rough Comic for Wednesday 5-27-09: “Why Do You Cry”
[Origianlly Posted 5/27/09]
Here’s the pencils and text for today’s comic.
Rough Pencils For A New Shirt Design
[Originally Posted 5/26/09]
Check it out. This will end up being the “Vulcan High Five” or “Sci-Five” shirt. Yes, those are my hands.
[UPDATE 5/8/13: I included the reference photos of my actual hands and the finished shirt design. These images are important to me, because when some jackoff at a jackoff t-shirt store in Canada ripped off my design by tracing the image, got caught, then had the jackoff balls to ask if he could keep selling it if he paid me with his jackoff money, I told him to go fuck himself because THOSE WERE MY HANDS. He traced MY ACTUAL HANDS in order to steal from an independent, struggling artist (which was also me). Fuck that guy.]
You can BUY THE SHIRT here.
A Sneak Peek At Monday’s Comic: “Somebody Set Up Us The Bomb”
[Originally Posted 5/17/09]
Here’s the rough art and text for Monday’s (5-18-09) HijiNKS Ensue.
The final comic is here.
Anatomy Of A Panel Background
[Originally Published 5/15/09]
I like to make my panel background’s visually insteresting. That doesnt always mean they make sense, or are realistic. I just like them to be nice to look at. In a recent comic about the TV show “Fringe” I wanted to show the characters in the lab set where much of the show takes place. I couldnt find any good reference images and I didn’t want to draw the whole lab, so I compromised. I found a promo image featuring one of the show’s stars in the lab, cut her out of the middle and drew the rest in by hand. I knew that after applying the various textures and filters you probably wouldnt be able to tell the photo from the hand drawn areas.
Here are the basic steps:
- The first image shows the two halves of the original photo, with the hand drawn middle area
- Then I added a slight gausian blur so the background wouldnt be totally in focus
- Next I did a color overlay from green to teal to make all the background colors more uniform
- The next 3 images are just applying old paper textures to add graininess to the background. The final texture is wrinkled paper which doesnt look real at all but I think it looks cool
- Then I add some light shining in from the windows on either side.
- Now the characters
- Light hitting the characters (which doesnt entirely work with the shadows I had already drawn on them. Oh well.
- Bubbles and dialog and its done
Here’s the finished comic.
