Day 20 - PAGE 20!

YAAAY! PAGE 20! Okay, so this page looks pretty good. It has the most panels of any page so far. Which is pretty cool. And, this page is a good place for... THE REVISIONS! Now, I noticed some grammatical and spelling errors, not to mention just plain rotten speech sometimes. So I changed a goodly number of things. All of these things shall be fixed in the slideshow. In fact, I'm revising the slideshow a little, so its completely up to date.

Also, around this blog I'm going to be putting up some minor revisions as well as in the comic. That aside, it's time for...

Unfortunately, in this page I do not have shading. So sorry about that, but I was really trying to pay attention to detail and I was too worn out by the end of it all that I didn't do the shading. Sorry, its my fault, and I should have done something wiser.

Nice and highly detailed! You will notice that in the second panel its sort of in a frame. That is because I did a sneaky trick which I will explain in...

Okay, here is my sneaky trick: In order to get out of redrawing the shop I only drew the open door and Lighting Bug in the second panel. Later, in Corel, I cut that part out roughly and used the Magic Wand tool to make the edges format to the shape I wanted. I then copied the colored shop from panel one, stuck it under Lightning Bug in panel two, and then colored Lightning Bug in. It was much simpler then me drawing and coloring the whole shop all over again just for the second panel. Everything else I draw again.

I have decided that BOOM!Kids is definitely the place for me to go when looking for possible publishers. Maybe it will end up in the slush pile, but maybe not. We will see.

And that is all for today! See you!

- Tsitra563

Day 3 - Pages 2 and 3

Well, I'm back on the good old computer!

And guess what... Two more pages!

Yay! I bet you're glad you aren't doing this.

OK, anyway, we have our main characters' name mentioned, and we have our first little "Store Problem." Big Fist can't find his hero-statis podlink. You will notice that Big Fist's logo, "BF" can also be interpreted as "Best Friend." I probably will incorporate this into the story at some point.

Ah... The shading. How nice it looks. OK, enough of that. Now to...

OK, there were a few technical issues with these two pages. The first is, I messed up a panel.

So I had to add a panel to the other page and move up all the other panels on the page to get things even.

Also, my coloring got a little lousy on these two, mostly, I guess, cause I didn't do the Brightness and Contrast right. You will also notice Zach's eyes in the first panel of the second page look off slightly. Thats because I had to redraw one. And in the second panel of the second page, the aisle thing, (cabinet? product holder? shelf?) is completely out of perspective (Not that anything isn't!).

Now for...

OK, last time I bailed out on this one, but it has to be solved at some point, so...

Yes, I am going to have to run around like a chicken on fire after I finish this comic trying to sell to publishers. I am not well known, and I am not very old, and plus I don't have burrowing eyes and a long beard, so you can tell already nobody will be impressed by me. So the fact remains, which publisher?

Well... Maybe I'll try Tokyopop first. They do lots of graphic novels. If not I may have to try some small time, unofficial, small business that nobody knows. Hmm or BOOM!Kids maybe. I'm not sure. But what I can be sure of is that this blog is going to have 365+ posts on it after I finish. :P

OK, thats all for now. Have fun! Look out!

-- Tsitra563

Happy New Year! - First Page

Page 1! 2011 is off to a good start!

I hope you had a happy new year! And now on to the page...

Here we have some nice introductory dialogue, with the title of the part.

We establish the name of the store, and we have our first dialogue, coming from  The Stranger in Black and Zach, who is paying his bills. Notice the high detail and shading. 

There is another thing that has come up. Because of a series of events totally outside my control, we don't use power on Sunday. But not to worry! That does not mean that I can't do a page a day. It just means I draw two pages on Sunday, and then on Monday fill them in.

OK, that wasn't such a big problem. Here is another. 

What Will I Do With This 365 Page Comic After I Finish It?

Nice question. I... Uh... Might have to get back to you on that one.

Until next time,

- Tsitra563