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No “thok” this week. Only “ghk”. Sorry! — I’ve been trying out some different background drawing methods that are a bit more viable with the Cintiq. For whatever reason I always found doing lineart for...
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That face ain’t gonna stay pretty for long at this rate. — So, chapter end! Sorry for the site downtime during the week, there was a server migration happening and it was pretty much unavoidable....
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Mixing things up a bit for the cover this time round, I couldn’t really get this image out of my head. I have to say, one of the unexpected upsides of getting the cintiq is being able to use a normal...
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TOOT TOOT MAKE WAY FOR AIRSHIP — Hey, New Zealand readers! Some of my good friends are trying to kickstart a board game café in Auckland, and I would kill for something like this in Dundee, so please...
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Nailed it! Or… they only crashed a little bit, at least. — So I started a print store on Society6 ages ago without really mentioning it to anyone, and they’re doing free worldwide shipping for the next...
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Landed! So now what? — Not much buzz on the page this week, though I did have a very good time drawing it! Ugh, I love colours so much. Getting all that green in there was quite satisfying.
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Stood up. Awkward. — Wow, this page was a pain. Not due to the page itself, but I came down with a cold about halfway through the week, just as I was starting work on this, and had to slog through it...
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And the dirt is gone! — Ah, British ad jokes. Anyway, turns out I was a massive liar last week when I said I was feeling better. A massive liar. I’m off to go sleep until Monday.
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:) — In the ongoing saga that is my health, I’m pleased to say I’m mostly feeling better! I think working on this page cheered me up a lot.
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Who invited these nerds? — I think this is my favourite page so far. Congrats to my friend Liam who, after asking several times to be drawn into the comic, has finally made it in as a one man band.
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The ship on top of the cake is made of chocolate. The exhaust cloud is made of spun sugar. The trees are made of marzipan. See you next week!
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For Samara’s expression in the first panel, I mostly just thought about what kind of face I would make if someone put something I take very seriously on top of a bunch of cakes.
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Top banter, Sam. — Pretty pleased this went up on time considering I spent most of the week in bed with what I think now was stomach flu. Now time to spend the whole weekend sleeping!
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Someone’s always left holding the cake. — I was trying to avoid this, but unfortunately there’s going to be a small break in the update schedule as I’m going to be out of the country for the next week...
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I’m back in Scotland but fresh off the plane and still not back to my work computer, so no update this week – we’ll get back to the party next Friday. Fortunately, the wonderful Xenia Streck has...
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Comforting words from Jasper. — Back! I was in Italy while I was away, and don’t even get me started on how many photos I took. Enough to keep me in Dakaia-relevant stock images for the rest of my...
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Oh Sam, you big liar. — I didn’t quite intend this page to look like a big hellscape, but once I started with the warm colours I couldn’t really stop. Anyway, dead from backgrounds! I will rise again...
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Getting on like a house on fire. — This week I learned a lot about drawing spirals in perspective. Like… a lot. What idiot wrote that in there, anyway?
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In retrospect I should have filled this page full of pumpkins. Happy Halloween~ — So my friend Amy just launched a new webcomic, Harlowe Vanished! The first five pages are up and it already looks...
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