COMICS CHALLENGE October 2022 - Get Stuff Done!

[Kelheor]

Well we actually got our full time autumn right on September 1st. The temperature dropped drastically and it's been cold and misty since hahaha, nasty weather honestly. It's very nice to know it's a good autumn somewhere!

Just published today's update and will try to sketch tomorrow's after a short break

[SynergyEclipse]

I finished the machine I was modeling yesterday and rendered a shot of it on the stage, and a close-up of it. Today I added these renders and another to my webtoon. There were also two backgrounds that I rendered earlier and blended in!

This render is the machine on the stage. It’s a steampunk-inspired computer but has glowing buttons on it like a lot of 1960’s sci-fi computers! It’s a bit grainy because of some limits with Blender’s built-in de-noiser, but I can manually smooth this out when I add the line art and blend in the shading.

[Kelheor]

Published today's update and two pages for Hexameron, and I am under the weather, so I guess I am done here lol. Love Vulfgaar's face today.

[gabriellabalagna]

Day 6! Giving my dominant hand a little break and used my non-dominant hand to finish flats for some backgrounds today. (I work two pages side by side, and then later convert to scrolling format.)

@Kelheor Aww, hope you feel better soon. And yes, that facial expression is too good.

[SynergyEclipse]

Started editing a rendered crowd shot to draw in the line art and paint in the crowd (the people were just rendered like mannequins) but now I’m experiencing technical difficulties! My iPad dropped connection part way through and I can’t reconnect through Sidecar at the moment.

Trying to edit what I can until then by cleaning up lines and paint with just my mouse.

[Kelheor]

@SynergyEclipse ugh, I hope you will be able to reconnect it with no problems a bit later! A mouse is too crazy to use for drawing, I know some artists who are drawing with it and I am absolutely shocked with the fact they are able to do it

The 6th strip is finished for today and it really feels nice already! Funny fact - originally I had no idea how Beleard's nose should look like in profile, no shape was good. I ended up drawing him a nose on the first strip, but it looked really unnatural. So this time I decided he won't have a nose in profile...at all xD

[gabriellabalagna]

Didn't get much done today. Gonna buckle down and spend 20 more minutes drawing now though.

@SynergyEclipse Technical difficulties are the worst. Glad you were still able to work on it though.

@Kelheor I agree, strangely the absence of a nose actually suits him. Also, I love his coat. The fur is so big, but I love it.

[SynergyEclipse]

Fortunately, I was able to complete the line art and most of the base coloring before my connection dropped! It’s working again now so I’m focusing on finishing that background.

Trying to do some cleanup and coloring with a mouse was tough!

[simonitropunk]

WIP panel

[IndigoShirtProd]

Meant to contribute to this thread earlier but I got... distracted . But anyway, this is most recent page I worked on this month. In the middle pf lining an action scene and it's just as much of struggle as you think it would be.

@Kelheor I've been keeping up with the comic on instagram, it's so funny!
@gabriellabalagna your line work is so clean, love to see it!
@SynergyEclipse Hope you don't lose connection again

[SynergyEclipse]

I hope I don’t again too. My Wi-Fi connection isn’t the most reliable, but I have to rely on it.

The action scene on that page looks great! Action scenes can be so tricky to plan out to get the best angles and flow of them!

It’s definitely tricky planning out the scene, the best angles for it, and arranging the panels to get it to flow just right!

[Kelheor]

@IndigoShirtProd aw thanks!
I totally agree, great action paneling! It was much easier to plan such panels in scroll format, even after all these years I am still intimidated by pages layout

I kinda had a meltdown today feeling like a fraud, I actually hoped that I had my rest and the drawing will go smooth from now on, but nope. Anyway I hope I will be over it tomorrow, but probably I will just do an illustration, we'll see.

[gabriellabalagna]

Day 8! Didn't get much lineart done again today. If I work on it more later, then I will share a pic.

@simonitropunk Welcome! Love that panel shape/composition/camera angle!

@IndigoShirtProd Welcome and thank you! This looks very dynamic, great job!

[gabriellabalagna]

Okay, worked a little longer today. Here's a few panels I was working on.

If I have time, I hope to finish the lineart for this spread tomorrow. But we'll see.

[SynergyEclipse]

Shaded this panel yesterday; it’s more menacing with the lighting! This is the base shading. This panel will have a purple lighting effect added to it when I export the episode for the finishing touches!

Today I shaded the next two panels after this.

[gabriellabalagna]

Day 9 of the Comics Challenge!

It's been really nice having people to chat about comics and motivate each other so far. Hoping this October continues to be productive and fun for all of us!

Finally completed the lineart for this spread. Next is more flatting and then shading.

[simonitropunk]

[Kelheor]

Well, did an illustration yesterday and published today's update. Hopefully tomorrow will be better.

[SynergyEclipse]

I’m pretty close to completion with this episode! Shaded 5 panels of it today, and caught up to the last vectored panel. Only the last section has panels that have been sketched but not vectored yet, and there are just a few more backgrounds that need to be rendered!

[gabriellabalagna]

@simonitropunk Whoa cool coloring style!

@Kelheor Yup, just gotta keeping moving forward. Also, I really like how those facial expressions turned out.

@SynergyEclipse Hooray for progress! Hope everything goes smoothly as you finish it up.