Noodles
And so here is the first of what is going to become kind of a lot of friendship endings. You can also read my competitor’s comic here, it’s quite good.
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ROUND 1 - RAYUBAN HOMESICK BLUES
8 comics.
Ring Out
One thing to note by the way is that I draw in Adobe Flash rather than, y’know, an actually reasonable art program. This is pretty much entirely due to professional inertia from using Flash for about 17 years now, but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I mentioned my issues with this comic being far too compressed; I consider this to be my weakest comic by far, and am honestly kind of embarrassed to even look at it. In retrospect, this is mostly because I tend[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
星光
This next bit is important: most of the original 64 entered Round one blind; aside from submission comics (and those were optional so some contestants did not have anything more than a character sheet and a quick blurb), most of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Bounding
For most of the round, the singular thought running through my head was “is 8 pages going to be too excessive?” and used the time I had to streamline the story and carve out some pages. This ultimately I think[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Round 1
Now, just because I hadn’t drawn comics in a while didn’t mean I had completely lost all my previous experience with comics, so I ended up scavenging my old workflow from the days of somewhere in nevada and scripted out[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Tea Time
Keep in mind, the rules of the competition were pretty simple: for each round, contestants had to draw a minimum of two pages in two weeks, the comics had to feature both characters interacting (though not necessarily killing or even[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Rayuban Homesick Blues
The first round started with me being matched against Yul, whose character was Yazh, a nineteen-foot tall psychic Quetzalcoatlus, AKA “bird auntie.” Interestingly, this colorscheme was initially selected simply because the first two pages took place at night, and thus[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…