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[comic] *Page 4* Shines One Year After; NOW IN GLORIOUS COLOR
Topic Started: Jul 30 2009, 12:44 AM (636 Views)
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Okay, this is something that's been knocking around my head for awhile. Quite awhile.

I wanted to do something with that old, old, old RP that bizness turned into a short lived fanfic. After I finally got my act together, I proposed this idea to bizness, and he gave me the go ahead. But while this retains the main characters, and most of the side characters, there are some major changes. Namely, an original setting (or about as original as this can get).
This is still a work in progress, but here's some background for now:
Think of your standard RPG world. You know, isolated cities/towns separated by inhospitable, monster filled lands. Now imagine this was an actual world and all that would entail for trade, communication, growth, etc.
Every person has some sort of magic, whether it’s elemental magic, telekinesis, increased strength, etc.
Oh yeah, and there’s this dark shadow/disease/plague thing that’s spreading across the land. It makes land barren and mushy, taints plants, posses animals to make monsters, posses monsters to make even worse monsters, and, of course, posses people to make shambling zombie things. While this will be the sort of meta-arc, the story will primarily be about the characters, and their various lives/neuroses.
As I said, this is all a work in progress, so things are liable to change or become more streamlined as I figure out what the hell I’m doing.

Anywho:

#1 - *BUMP*

For now, it’s just a sketch with the title, copyright (yes, that’s my name), and the sound effects added. No speech in this one. As for their names, the tall one is Javan and the one with the ponytail is Gabs (yes, that’s just Java with a “V” and yes, that’s a real name).
I fully intend to color this by screwing around in photoshop. That’s sort of why panels 1-4 look so empty, as there’s eventually going to be some sort of color/gradient there. Also, it hides the rather significance between the characters, adding a subtle little visual joke.
I also fully intend to finish these at a rate of about once a week (not so good with self imposed deadlines).

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Yay! The backgrounds on the first four panels seem a little plain, but I think it's good so far. The shading's not really what I had in mind when I started, and I may go to another style later. For now, it looks nice.

#2 - Interesting

Here's the second one, and only one day behind schedule! *dances*
The reason this one took so long was the back grounds. Not so good with scenery yet. But I rather like how it turned out, although the perspectives look a little wonky, as does the width of the street. Ah, well.
Anyway, this is the first comic that begins to establish characters. Javan's polite, but a little out of it, though as things move along, and he get's more screen time, he'll become a little screwier. Gab's, from what her little dialog says, is rude and indifferent. Also there's a little more to what has happened, if you managed to catch it in the comic and have a little background from the fanfic. It's not really all that subtle, but hey, whatever.
Oh, I'll set up a Smackjeeves thing, as Twilightsown suggested. But later.
And not done with coloring yet. I'm pretty much set on character coloring, but I'm still trying to find a good way to color the background.

#3 - Fall From Heaven

Still no SmackJeeves thing, but I'm working on it.
Yeah, so a little over a week late. I really have no excuse, other than that I've been busy and things slip. Also, this was a little ambitious for me. I've never drawn crowds or large city views before, and this one has both, so...
Anyway, here we switch from Javan and Gabs to Hyuda. No one actually has gad their name introduced in this comic yet, but they will. Eventually. Hopefully the whole falling this easy to see.

#4 - All Eyes On You

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Yup, three weeks later. And still no SmackJeeves. I really have to sit down and get on it.
As for notes on this, there's nothing much to say, really. We get our first look at Hyuda. Funny thing is, I've had rather hard time picturing him. I wanted him to seem mature, but not you know, really old (though he is). And serious. Which I think I finally managed to get. Also, I really like the sixth panel. I've never really been good with perspective and crowds (it's not really a crowd though) but here I think I drew it fairly well.

That’s all for now.
Edited by Java, Sep 20 2009, 05:56 PM.
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Sounds awesome! =D Can't wait!
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Sounds awesome Java ^^ I can't wait to see more.
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You copyrighted? And I hope you can carry this farther.



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I suppose I did. It's just something people do on webcomics, so I just did it with out thinking. I can credit the original idea to you, if that's okay.
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You should post these to a webcomic site like smackjeeves. It makes it so much easier to up[date and looks more professional than jsut putting them on a website. Then you could jsut link to em like I do with mine and Rogue's webcomic ^^

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Second comic up.
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You can't leave us hanging, Java! D: What does Javan find so interesting?
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Ah, well, if you remember from bizness's fanfic, Gab's has a habit of stealing items that don't belong to her. That's what those last four panels were about. When he puts his hand back into his pocket, he notices something missing, shuffles around for it, then finally realizes his wallet's gone, and that the girl just stole it.
Of course, the next one will shift to introduce someone else, and this won't be continued for a little while. Heh.
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ah....that is interesting
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