HAHAhahah XD it's understandable when you make simple spelling errors but now you misspelled your own characters name! XD (I'm speaking about that fishy god) for some reason it apperas as pretty hilarious to me :)
I love that girl's expressions – the way you draw her and the faces she makes. But panel 3 looks weird to me – as if she was getting male-pattern baldness O.o'
oh, I also love the way rat-mommy got startled and went back to sleep :) How old is she in human years?
I do the same thing when I'm typing from a script to another source, it's actually quite common. Same thing when drawing letters, it's because you're using a different part of your brain to type the words from the script into the speach bubble (I use a vector program for that), instead of having them flow freely and consciously.
your sense of flow on these two pages is really good. I really like the direction and sense of frustration on the characters. I dig it the expressions are dead on. Keep it up jason….
This is kinda the moment where the rubber meets the road. Victuals and Sonja are starting to get on each others nerves a bit. The honeymoon stage is over and now dealing with each others character flaws is starting. It’s hard to let your characters, who have had a mostly peaceful time, start to get frustrated and start showing signs of weakness but it had to happen sooner or later.
The toughest thing is to let bad things happen to your characters, whether arguments like this or more serious stuff. But that's where conflict comes from. And I've yet to read any western literature without conflict. Unless you count Rod McKuen's poetry. Which I don't.
I think it's a nice departure, graphically, to let your characters get a little exaggerated in their looks and expression. It breaks up the seriousness of the plot, but also frames the next stage of the conflict really well. A tight progression of action like this is really hard to carry off – as you mention – because you have to maintain a really tight consistency from panel to panel. A lot of people use the computer to cut and paste but that becomes a crutch way too easily – I remember seeing that in a Jill Thompson "Invisibles" comic and immediately thinking "LAAAAAAAAAAAME!" But here, you seem to at least vary the linework – I imagine you traced each panel individually but from a single master. Not a bad technique but still, I guess, tedious as all hell. Reminds me of drafting construction documents by hand, which thankfully I've only had to do very rarely.
I love the comic, just read through it all, came from the meek. This is definitely a comic I'm going to buy when you release it on paper. Your art is so beautiful and the story really intrigues me!
HAHAhahah XD it's understandable when you make simple spelling errors but now you misspelled your own characters name! XD (I'm speaking about that fishy god) for some reason it apperas as pretty hilarious to me :)
I love that girl's expressions – the way you draw her and the faces she makes. But panel 3 looks weird to me – as if she was getting male-pattern baldness O.o'
oh, I also love the way rat-mommy got startled and went back to sleep :) How old is she in human years?
* the misspelling appears hilarious, not the name :)
Hahha! that is pretty funny to be misspelling my own names. Thanks for pointing it out. I'm lame.
I do the same thing when I'm typing from a script to another source, it's actually quite common. Same thing when drawing letters, it's because you're using a different part of your brain to type the words from the script into the speach bubble (I use a vector program for that), instead of having them flow freely and consciously.
your sense of flow on these two pages is really good. I really like the direction and sense of frustration on the characters. I dig it the expressions are dead on. Keep it up jason….
trav
This is kinda the moment where the rubber meets the road. Victuals and Sonja are starting to get on each others nerves a bit. The honeymoon stage is over and now dealing with each others character flaws is starting. It’s hard to let your characters, who have had a mostly peaceful time, start to get frustrated and start showing signs of weakness but it had to happen sooner or later.
Thanks, Trav, for the comment!
The toughest thing is to let bad things happen to your characters, whether arguments like this or more serious stuff. But that's where conflict comes from. And I've yet to read any western literature without conflict. Unless you count Rod McKuen's poetry. Which I don't.
I think it's a nice departure, graphically, to let your characters get a little exaggerated in their looks and expression. It breaks up the seriousness of the plot, but also frames the next stage of the conflict really well. A tight progression of action like this is really hard to carry off – as you mention – because you have to maintain a really tight consistency from panel to panel. A lot of people use the computer to cut and paste but that becomes a crutch way too easily – I remember seeing that in a Jill Thompson "Invisibles" comic and immediately thinking "LAAAAAAAAAAAME!" But here, you seem to at least vary the linework – I imagine you traced each panel individually but from a single master. Not a bad technique but still, I guess, tedious as all hell. Reminds me of drafting construction documents by hand, which thankfully I've only had to do very rarely.
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Humour reentering the comic again!
I really enjoy some of the whimsy you throw into Remind, even if it has been more absent during the lizard scenes.
Still waiting for "mom" to talk….
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I mean how awesome would it be to have a normal looking rat remind you to brush your teeth, wear a coat and eat your vegetables?!?
I love the comic, just read through it all, came from the meek. This is definitely a comic I'm going to buy when you release it on paper. Your art is so beautiful and the story really intrigues me!
I’m not sure if anyone pointed it out already, but I just noticed that Sonja’s lips aren’t black in the first panel.
I just noticed the "you-showed-up-with-sti…"
And Victuals crying when he sees the lizard's (Erzats'?) skin on spread 15.
I can't wait to see this on real paper .-)