We’re back to the party! I loved drawing Harmony’s pout. She’s good at pouting. Really good.
The SpiderForest comic of the week this week is Precocious by Christopher J Paulsen. Precocious is a daily strip following children who are too smart for their own good and who get into all kinds of trouble because of it. I love all things cute and Precocious is as cute as it gets.
Also check out Duke of Solitaire by Jacob Grau. If you like tournament comics like Yu-Gi-Oh, you’ll like this one. 
We’re back to the party! I loved drawing Harmony’s pout. She’s good at pouting. Really good.
The SpiderForest comic of the week this week is Precocious by Christopher J Paulsen. Precocious is a daily strip following children who are too smart for their own good and who get into all kinds of trouble because of it. I love all things cute and Precocious is as cute as it gets.
Also check out Duke of Solitaire by Jacob Grau. If you like tournament comics like Yu-Gi-Oh, you’ll like this one.
And we’re off! I wonder what will happen to Henry? Those with good eyesight will see that the rafts are pulled by fish. These are actually the world equivalent of dolphins. The X’antu tribe trains them to pull their rafts out in ocean waters.
The SpiderForest comic of the week this week is Precocious by Christopher J Paulsen. Precocious is a daily strip following children who are too smart for their own good and who get into all kinds of trouble because of it. I love all things cute and Precocious is as cute as it gets.
Owtch, Cook. Owtch.
This week’s vote incentive is the second of the two minicomics in the next book of LaSalle’s Legacy: Bathtime! Vote to see it for free this week only. 
This week, we continue the SpiderForest comic of the week! Yaaaay! This week’s comic is Spare Keys for Strange Doors by Lucy Lyall. Toby Hathaway and Marion Sark are your local Specialists – experts at handling the uncanny, supernatural and subnatural. If you like urban fantasy with a touch of mystery, you’ll like this one. Lucy’s an amazing storyteller.
Henry, spears aren’t held that way.
Cook’s real name is Qzcanul (pronounced keez-cah-nool). You didn’t really think his name was Cook, did you? XD And Eloxochitl is pronounced Ee-lux-o-chi-tal. The guy Qzcanul is talking to is named Yaomaloc, prounounced ya-o-ma-lok.
This week’s vote incentive is the second of the two minicomics in the next book of LaSalle’s Legacy: Bathtime! Vote to see it for free this week only.
This week, we continue the SpiderForest comic of the week! Yaaaay! This week’s comic is Spare Keys for Strange Doors by Lucy Lyall. Toby Hathaway and Marion Sark are your local Specialists – experts at handling the uncanny, supernatural and subnatural. If you like urban fantasy with a touch of mystery, you’ll like this one. Lucy’s an amazing storyteller.
Will they listen?
Vote incentive this week continues to be “Gambling Blues”. Vote to see this exclusive mini-comic for free this week only!
On to part three of my work process (I bet ya’ll thought I forgot, didn’t you?) The sketch! As a reminder, we’re using this page as an example.
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This sketch is how I used to work; non-photo blue line sketches with graphite once I had the details I wanted. Why non-photo blue you ask? I started using non-photo blue when I inked directly on my pages; the scanner only picked up the black ink and I could easily get rid of the blue lines once I got them on my computer, back before I was comfortable inking on my computer. When I started inking directly on the computer, I started working on really crappy paper, the kind you use in your printer. I have a tendency to erase a lot. If you erase a lot on really crappy paper, you either tear it, rub the fiber down to non-usable flatness, or rub holes into it. Either way, this makes the process frustrating, especially when you’re on a tight time crunch. So, I used the non photo blue pencil to work out my sketches and the graphite to define where I wanted to put the inks.
You’re probably noticing a couple of things: one, that the background is not really detailed, and two, that the final panel is completely different. When I started inking on the computer, I noticed that the perspective grids I made for myself on paper never matched up with the ones I put on the computer when I needed to ink. This probably makes me a bad artist, but I figured I could forgo all the work involved in making a detailed background in the penciling stage and do all that on the computer later. As for the final panel; I wasn’t too satisfied with it when I saw it. It didn’t have quite the emotional impact I wanted. So, I changed it.
