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- Just for Fun
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LOOM
- Mar 17, 2013 2:48 PM
Flexible Tools Demo: Inking with a Brush Most people that know me know how crazy I am about ink and any kind of traditional tool out there. Since the last tutorials I did focused on rigid tools like technical pens and liners, I was kicking around the idea of showing a softer, more organic technique used making a brush. I have a couple of people ask about these more flexible tools and what kinds of free, dynamic effect lines you can make with them. This technique is great for suspense and horr...
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LOOM
- Jun 18, 2012 2:51 AM
Musings on Paneling 04: Big 2, LIttle 2 More manga thoughts. Hopefully is ADD friendly. I hope it is approachable and leaves every viewer feeling free to do with the general ideas what they like. This one incorporates the fist tutorial, but show how the 2 miniature "2's" are incorporated into the horizontal page deisgn. I guess I should note that this is a very flamboyant performance, wherein two people are engaging in passive-aggressive behavior. Finalized, Unmarked Reference Page Used Can b...
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Wally
- Jan 27, 2013 11:23 PM
Sixty hours of work every week is no fun. But money is good. And I have a day off today, which means comicking. With my trusty TTGL music, caffeine and nicotine, the page shall be done today \o/
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LOOM
- Mar 31, 2012 7:48 AM
Musings on Paneling 01: The Big #2 No, not poop. The number! I've been asked about paneling before, but paneling is such an individual thing. It's a very broad topic to approach without getting stuffy and academic. A lot of the time I just notice things and draw randomly without ever putting words to what I'm doing. Luckily, Erin has been asking me things about stuff I never though to put words ot. So, I decided to do some laidback "tutorials" that simply present a principle and apply it. May...
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LOOM
- Jul 23, 2012 12:34 AM
M A N G A - A P P S 3rd Annual Manga-Apps Prompt Contest I didn't think about posting a blog before, but if you're interested, there is a comic contest going on over at Manga-Apps on Deviantart. The aim of the game is to create a oneshot/standalone comic from 8-50 pages, and incorporate one of the yearly themes: bullying, wings, chase, or dehumanization. We always have a load of fun with this contest and we try to give those who want it in-depth feedback on entries! We would love for you to c...
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Wave
- Jun 30, 2012 10:52 PM
I'm hardly a professional letterer, but part of my day job is to work with lettering files for comic books. I picked up a lot of really fun and informative tips and tricks by learning from the pros! Lettering's important! When we pick up a book, we want to be able to read them very well. There shouldn't be anything in the way that should make us go: "Huh? That's hard to read!" "I don't know what that says..." "What should I be reading first?" It's our job as comic book artists to draw our re...
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Sharean Morishita
- Apr 2, 2012 6:51 AM
Have some of you struggled with getting page composition idea's to come out? Or have you looked over your script and you just couldn't think of a nice layout for the page? Well the same thing happened to me as well. I was super stressed and tired and I just could wrap my mind around how the page should look, even with looking over my script and knowing what I wanted but I just couldn't draw it out the right way so my husband decided to step in and help me. So with his awesome skills he sketch...
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InkBlazers
- Feb 12, 2013 11:29 AM
We don’t care that it’s only February, we just want to celebrate this non-holiday season by giving away some free 1-month subscriptions with a scavenger hunt! Here’s how it works: Feburary 18th to March 31st, we’ll announce hints for the locations of several Easter eggs via Twitter and Facebook. These Easter eggs are hidden links embedded on a page. When you mouse over the hidden link, the cursor will change to an Easter egg. When you get the hint, be quick to find the location on our web...
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LOOM
- Apr 5, 2013 9:37 PM
OR READ AT MY BLOG! I seem to be getting questions about style and design a lot lately, whether that's on my personal site or profile, in relation to the Manga-Apps competition, or even at our Rocket City Comickers' Club. (Hi, Deanna!) I decided to try and address some of these questions in a positive light by writing about them on this blog. I'll be throwing in my two cents about a variety of topics, and some of them are kind of sensitive, so I will do my best to talk about them appropriate...
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LOOM
- Apr 25, 2012 10:24 AM
Musings on Paneling 03: Hand Gestures More manga thoughts. Hopefully is ADD friendly. I hope it is approachable and leaves every viewer feeling free to do with the general ideas what they like. This one incorporates the previous two tutorials, zigzagging and stepping up/down in terms of panels. I guess I should note that this is a very flamboyant performance, wherein two people are engaging in passive-aggressive behavior. Some things, like pointing, are very aggressive, and might be troub...
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LOOM
- Mar 12, 2013 8:42 PM
I've been hard-pressed to get to the Internet these days, as most of you close to me know already. (For reasons that still remain rather extreme, confusing, pendulum-ish...for even when I think things are looking up temporarily, they swing back into the netherworld of darkness. ;o;) I hope you enjoy the recent double-page spread color page in lieu of frequent early-month updates. More pages to come! I am actually feeling amazingly productive...when I can be! The time I originally had to comic...
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InkBlazers
- Mar 21, 2013 9:00 AM
We’re giving away some free 1-month subscriptions with a scavenger hunt! Today’s hints in the pages of Vampire Fetish: In chapter 3, Tony has his PSP taken away. Simmering, he looks at the Easter egg. In chapter 8, Jude & Tony land in a bathhouse and one of the girls is looking at the Easter egg. For more details about the activity, click here. Happy hunting!
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Studio Kawaii
- Apr 19, 2012 2:19 AM
I know you usually enjoy our blog posts, because we´re crazy as hell. Today, unfortunately we´re not in the mood for it. Sorry if we´re getting a bit serious. Today it´s been a year since the worst day in our lives. Actually, the end of the three worst weeks in our lives. So... we just wanted to say thank you, everybody. Thanks to those of you who´ve been supporting us through this year, even with a single word. Thanks to those of you who know why chapter 12 of Soul Chaser is so importa...
