This was supposed to go up last night...
(Edit 6/4/07 - newest Pigmefah! strip is now on the site too. Enjoy!)
...but I kept getting pulled away from the computer and so didn't get to finish it =( Anyway...
New Pigemfah! See it here.
Holy carp, yesterday was a productive day. I got a page of Elemental all colored and finished and posted, and now I've also posted the next Pigmefah! comic, which has been sitting on my computer for some time now.
This comic went through several different incarnations before I finally settled on one and just finished it. I did several different sketches with varying degrees of detail, chibification, and finished-ness. None of these, however, satisfied me - I didn't like any of them enough to continue on to inking and coloring. So I kept just making more sketches. Then, I finally got fed up and just sat down at the computer and sketched something in Photoshop with my tablet, thinking for some unknown reason that that would then make the process easier and faster.
If you've started following "Elemental" at all, you may have a hint as to how much Photshop hates me. This was true in this case as well - I would get frustrated with PS and so not be able to work on the comic for more than a little while at a time. This, incidentally, is why there is absolutely no shading in the entire piece - I put the speech bubbles and text in, and was like 'yay, now I only have to shade it and it's done!' And the thought of going over all those colors again made my brain start to hurt. And, unfortunately for you all, I didn't have the willpower to put it away and come back to it later. If I've learned one thing about myself in the last few years of writing and drawing, it's that leaving something almost-but-not-quite done is the best way to ensure that I will never finish it. So this time I just said screw it and went ahead and posted it.
:D
...but I kept getting pulled away from the computer and so didn't get to finish it =( Anyway...
New Pigemfah! See it here.
Holy carp, yesterday was a productive day. I got a page of Elemental all colored and finished and posted, and now I've also posted the next Pigmefah! comic, which has been sitting on my computer for some time now.
This comic went through several different incarnations before I finally settled on one and just finished it. I did several different sketches with varying degrees of detail, chibification, and finished-ness. None of these, however, satisfied me - I didn't like any of them enough to continue on to inking and coloring. So I kept just making more sketches. Then, I finally got fed up and just sat down at the computer and sketched something in Photoshop with my tablet, thinking for some unknown reason that that would then make the process easier and faster.
If you've started following "Elemental" at all, you may have a hint as to how much Photshop hates me. This was true in this case as well - I would get frustrated with PS and so not be able to work on the comic for more than a little while at a time. This, incidentally, is why there is absolutely no shading in the entire piece - I put the speech bubbles and text in, and was like 'yay, now I only have to shade it and it's done!' And the thought of going over all those colors again made my brain start to hurt. And, unfortunately for you all, I didn't have the willpower to put it away and come back to it later. If I've learned one thing about myself in the last few years of writing and drawing, it's that leaving something almost-but-not-quite done is the best way to ensure that I will never finish it. So this time I just said screw it and went ahead and posted it.
:D