Sci-fi/Fantasy Webcomics
Happy Thanksgiving! I was going to draw Ace catching a turkey, but Pelkern doesn’t have much in the way of feathered creatures. (Nor would they celebrate a USA holiday, if we’re being technical). Pelkern does have boars, though, so here is Ace getting ready to spear a boar for a feast. : D
Here is the inking layer:
Hi all! Here is a video capture of when I was drawing Ace in the first panel of Page 24.
Page 23. It’s 4 AM.
<All text between carrots is in English.> All text without <> is translated from the main language of Pelkern.
Page 22. I’m pleased with how panel 3 and 4 came out. : D
<All text between carrots is in English.> All text without <> is translated from the main language of Pelkern.
I will be posting Page 22 next week. Here is a preview: In panel 4, the setting has window blinds, so here are some of the perspective lines I’ve made to get the window blinds right.
I was trying to capture that feeling of not being able to sleep; on the nights when your limbs ache to your very bones with tiredness, but behind your eyes your mind stares out sleepless.
(Continuity Edit: I forgot his wedding ring in panels 1, 3, and 4, added it in.)
Page 20, Chapter 2. Introducing…Ace! His crooked nose is from a sparring accident. Artor still feels bad about that one.
In this comic, <all text between carrots is in English.> All text without <> is translated from the main language of Pelkern.
Chapter 2, yay! Here is a bigger size image of the Polaroid. Artor is not one to smile for any new-world contraptions, that goes double for cameras.
*Edit — Between this page and the next I had changed Ace’s design slightly, so I went back and made the changes retroactively. His nose is now more crooked, and made him clean-shaven. You can see the original in the photo below.
I am finishing up the prep work for chapter 2 this week. The thumbnails, color-scripts, and other prep work have taken a little longer than expected, but I am pretty excited for this coming chapter. Stay tuned, new page next week!
This is a rock formation photo I took while holding my camera down close to the ground. I probably looked quite silly squinting up into a camera with my chin resting in the dirt, but if you photograph an object from a lower angle, you can make the object look bigger than it is. It will not look quite right in the photo–our brains can still figure out the scale from the information the photo provides–but you can correct this when you draw it. This is a trick I use for creating reference photos for fictional landscapes/settings.