❄ Tapastic Winter Fest 2015 - Day 25❄ [FINALE]

[carodoodles]

LMAO yessss! I'm like "that's SO Ri." Poor Ian having to deal with that plus being understaffed. xD

[hades]

I just wanted to say a really really big thanks for all the cameos of my ocs so far. ;w; it means so much to me since I wasn't able to participate in the long run.

Also this has been really lovely so far!

[PotooGryphon]

You're still apart of it, in spirit! XD :hug:

[PotooGryphon]

Tapastic Winter Fest 2015 Dec 9 :: Not Quite There by @VeloursRose

Today! It's Day 9 of the Winter Fun!

Today's episode is on Jax Nguyen's series Not Quite There. It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a gift landing right on top of Ant's head. With Chell and Ant on the case of delivering the gift, I'm sure they'll succeed flawlessly. Check out the episode to see how they crack this case!

Not Quite There is a really fun Comedic comic series following Ant as he adjusts to his new life of dealing with ghosts, aliens, and the supernatural. For a good time, check out the rest of Jax's series while enjoying today's Winter Fest episode, and hit that subscribe button.

@VeloursRose If you'd like to share any fun behind the scenes stories about the making of your episode or tell us more about your comic series, please do share!

[TsarLenaSunLit]

Maaaaan. This is what I get for 1) failing at updating more comics and 2) not going on these forms more. I wish I could be a part of this >.<

Awesome works guys. Love the story and the co-lab of everyone. It did the trick, found a few new comics that I am following now.

[PotooGryphon]

Weeeeeeeeeelllll....I do have some ideas kicking around on how to add more people and simplify the collab concept.

An event where readers ask Tapastic Santa what they want for Christmas and we divide all the requests up among a big group of volunteer artists and draw their Christmas gifts. It'll be like the artists of Tapastic giving back something special to the readers of Tapastic.

I may experiment with this idea in February with another Kiss-O-Gram event like what Feyuca did this last Feb but with a lot more artists, hopefully.

(Examples of Kiss-O-Grams 2015 that I did)

[AnnaLandin]

An event where readers ask Tapastic Santa what they want for Christmas and we divide all the requests up among a big group of volunteer artists and draw their Christmas gifts. It'll be like the artists of Tapastic giving back something special to the readers of Tapastic.

This seems like a nice idea. I'd be up for that next year!

[VeloursRose]

Haha oh dear, it was really a trip getting this little extra comic done but it was worth it! I'm so greatful to @CyndiFoster and @noxfox for organizing this really awesome collaboration and keeping everyone on task.

The funniest part of working on the winterfest comic was being able to draw some of the characters! Everyone had some really cute characters and I wish I had more time to put in more cameos but school seriously ate up all my time.:')

Also drawing Ant and Chell in ugly christmas sweaters was a plus.

Not much else I got to say except thanks for checking out the Winterfest and I hope people continue to follow it through to the end! Happy Holiday guys!=u=b

[PotooGryphon]

Tapastic Winter Fest 2015 Dec 10 :: Isaac at Life by @Thefatzombie

Reaching the double digits now with day 10!

Today's episode is on The Fat Zombie's series Isaac at Life. How will Isaac deliver gift? If you know Isaac he'll do it in the most awkward way he can. haha

If you're a fan of funny situational gags, give the rest of Isaac at Life a read through. You'll laugh at all his socially awkward antics. Just the thing you need to help get you through your day.

@Thefatzombie If you'd like to share any fun behind the scenes stories about the making of your episode or tell us more about your comic series, please do share!

[AnnaLandin]

Yay! Hats off to @Thefatzombie for the awesome work on this episode! Really impressed that it got done with such short notice. <3

[SimeriDraws]

Thanks a bunch! I'm so glad I got to join <3

[getsuart]

Love all those episodes and their atmosphere, this package is really mistreated, poor thing.. XD

[PotooGryphon]

If I may share a bit of behind the scenes info, about your episode, you really helped save the Christmas collab. Like you might just be the Rudolph at the front of our holiday sleigh. (lol couldn't resist being cheesy)

So originally @hades was our Dec. 10th artist. Hades also makes 3 very beautiful comic series which I highly recommend and Hades characters from Tyree of Amarynth can still be spotted as cameos in a few episodes. However, due to very painful tendinitis Hades had to drop out and @noxfox and I scrambled for like a day or two trying to find someone who could join-in in such short notice. Thankfully @Thefatzombie was like "ok" and Nox and I literally just dumped a massive amount of 3 months worth of collab info ontop of him and FatZombie was all like, "ok". lol

And to everyone's amazement, FatZombie was one of the first to submit a final finished episode with everything that was needed added in, cameos, continuing the story, just everything.

Thanks so much Simon for stepping in and being amazing. <3

[PotooGryphon]

Tapastic Winter Fest 2015 Dec 11 :: Heroes of Thantopolis by @Strontium

Day 11!

Today's episode is on Strontium's series Heroes of Thantopolis. Can the Champion of the ghost city, Thantopolis, help deliver this mystery gift to the Tapastic Mascot? With the help of his friends, anything is possible!

Heroes of Thantopolis is an all ages Fantasy Adventure series that is easy to get sucked into with fun visuals, likable characters, and an interesting mystery to latch on to. Check out the series from start to finish and enjoy getting hooked.

@Strontium If you'd like to share any fun behind the scenes stories about the making of your episode or tell us more about your comic series, please do share!

[Strontium]

Of course Cyndi!

For the story of this extra comic update, I wasn't sure whether I wanted it to be Trickster or Sagittarius who went around the festival with Cyrus and Xisea, but I thought of a way to include both of them, which was to have Trickster be the character running the HoT booth! It also gave me some time to show Cyrus and Sag interacting, which we'll get more of in upcoming chapters.

Another thing I wanted to include in this comic were some other Tapastic comics that I like that weren't part of our collab group. They are Boulder and Fleet, Sharp Zero, DeadEndia and Jubee Sweetz. I like these comics and I knew I would run out of booths to draw... I did draw all the collab's booths but some of them are covered up by characters XD

When it came to drawing and coloring the comic, I was in a bit of a time crunch, so I cheated a bit on the color palette. I went to google and searched "winter lights" or something and found a picture that I think is of the Watertower downtown (in Chicago) that had pretty colors. Then I stuck the photo in a color palette generator website that takes images and creates two color palettes, like this:

I ended up combining the two color palettes for my comic. Here's the end color reference:

It was fun to work on this project but also very challenging! Haha! Maybe next year it won't be such a challenge because I will have graduated college.

[LittleEndian]

WAH ! so interesting ! It's an excellent way to work on colors. I should try O_O

[PotooGryphon]

Tapastic Winter Fest 2015 Dec 12 :: Apoppytheosis by @jocosejoni

Day 12, nearly halfway to Christmas now.

Today's episode is on Joni's series Apoppytheosis. Can the Gods of Apoppytheosis help deliver this gift to the Tapastic Mascot? If they can't who can, right? haha

Apoppytheosis is a fun adventure campy horror series following a stubborn angsty boy named Anthony as he's granted a wish that peaks the curiosity of the entire pantheon of Gods. Read Joni's whole series for a great stylized comic series with fun campy humor.

@jocosejoni If you'd like to share any fun behind the scenes stories about the making of your episode or tell us more about your comic series, please do share!

[AnnaLandin]

This is the sassiest episode. SO sassy. XD

[PotooGryphon]

I love the high sass levels XD LOL

So many funny gags in the background.

[jocosejoni]

Yooooo Thank you so much for the little write up Cyndi, its so beautiful. I love it so much oh mannnn.

I had a really good time doing the winterfest. It was a fun experience and I appreciate the heck out of being able to work on a big project with a ton of other artists!

Lets talk about artistic choices, because if you've read Apoppytheosis it doesn't ///look/// the same as the winterfest episode.

In Regular updates of Apoppy I'm inking traditionally and alternating the same color palette on the entire project. In the winterfest special I wanted to go for more of a Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer feeling because thats like my whole childhood and I wanted a fun challenge. I even made a little Kayden doll (incase I wanted to add any stop motion, instead I just did a cute photoshoot)

I would have made a Hezekiah and Anthony doll, but unfortunately I couldn't find anything that I could have used to make Hezekiah's hair with. (I used bits of a black grocery bag for Kayden's hair)

ANYway, the TL;DR of why it looks different from the regular comic is because I wanted to try something different for a second, and I had fun doing it.

Uhhmmm If you guys would wanna know more about the making of the KAYDEN DOLL I can elaborate on the process and I took pictures while making it!