Bloody bowels
Ozoneocean on Jan. 17, 2006
Page description:
More stinky, greasy, bloody, rusty passages. This is just a short trip through some of the bloody bowels of the Buccaneer. Soon Pinky will be out of this makeshift morgue.
Commentary:
Finally, a two panel strip! Some more dead bodies here, but this time they’re a bit better covered. Drawing dead people isn’t really that fun, I prefer not to do research for that kind of thing. I rely on memories of news footage, war documentaries and war footage, (not movies, movies are too full of crap), the rest I just make up (like they do in the movies ^^).
I like the angles here. That stairway was easier to do than you might think. I promised an explanation of how I did it the first time I posted this and never delivered… So here’s a quick one:
*First I did a few sketchy lines in grey for the diamond grip-plate, and then I used white to highlight to the tops. When the pattern looked good, I copied and pasted it until I had a whole stair shaped rectangle full of it! After that I just used the straight line tools to rule up a stairway seen from above in perspective and pasted in all the grip-plate stair tops in the right places! (Scaling them to the right sizes)
*The banister rails had a three colour gradient over them to give them a cylindrical look, (grey, white, grey). I just applied that to a vertical shape and then stretched, distorted and rotated it into shape and place. I used the same initial gradient shape to build the ladder too. Then it was all flattened and set to “Multiplyâ€.
*Colour was even easier: Each panel had a simple two colour gradient applied to the whole thing. The brass rails and ladder were just selected and coloured flat yellow, (the grey gradient over the top makes them cylindrical). The background colour details were just added in very rough painterly splodges, but the textures make them look a lot better than they are. ^_^
A note:
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Ozoneocean at 9:04PM, Jan. 18, 2006
Wow, new comment features. I've made around 400 comments, 46 of them have been reported, 5 of them muted and 1 erased! Bizare. Some people mustn't like me much. Hey Sub! Grail? I dunno? I put the "add comic" thing just under the comic. Thanx Spaz, Mazzoo, Kytenji, Mikasso, Hero, Coinillius, ArekuDemon, Coy, That's cool Cheeko ^_^ She LOOKS like a Punk at the opera Office haha! Heya Shadowless! Long time man. I have to get Cod2 now. Pinky and CC in Matmata? That is a pretty cool compliment. It would really PONG in there Sarah ^^ Ruka, Green, it actually sort of creeps me out too.
subcultured at 7:55PM, Jan. 18, 2006
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subcultured at 7:55PM, Jan. 18, 2006
yesshh that grail must have taken a long time. BTW put in the code for "add to favorites" so i can add it on my list.
spaz at 7:37PM, Jan. 18, 2006
Your detail is always amazing.
Mazoo at 7:36PM, Jan. 18, 2006
Wow, the coloring in that last panel is fantastic!! (And the stairs in the first panel...) You've done a great job of making everything look grimy and gritty.
Kytenji at 6:30PM, Jan. 18, 2006
Wow, how much more fracked up can people get thats frack'n nuts! I love the way you can convey the comic.
Cheeko at 4:25PM, Jan. 18, 2006
Hey, thank you very much for all the comments on DAMAR. You have a lovely comic here, and your coloring skills leave mine in the dust. I'm going to go look through the archives now! :D
Office_Zone at 1:57PM, Jan. 18, 2006
Pinky seems as thrilled with her surroundings as a punk-rocker at an opera. (or vice-versa)
Shadowless at 10:23AM, Jan. 18, 2006
well, nice to see the DD version of Pinky is back on its feet (unlike that poor Tasha), and my net conection is restored just in time... I will enjoy re-reading the story. Btw: I got Call of Duty 2 for Christmas, and it has a couple of misssions based in Matmata... When I played those I kept wondering If I was going to run into CC or Pinky on the next street corner...
mickasso at 9:13AM, Jan. 18, 2006
I love the pattern on the steps.
coinilius at 3:12AM, Jan. 18, 2006
Wooo.. this is one good looking comic! I'm intrigued :)
ArekuDemon at 2:35AM, Jan. 18, 2006
Lovely just lovely *_*) I just love how you use color and perspective~!
SarahN at 11:10PM, Jan. 17, 2006
That problem SMELLS unpleasant too.
Green_Tangerine at 9:41PM, Jan. 17, 2006
The casual way that sailor refers to his shipmate's bodies always did creep me out...
Ruka E Pocky at 9:34PM, Jan. 17, 2006
Oh, I feel much better knowing she was burned BEFORE she lost her legs! XD
Coydog at 9:18PM, Jan. 17, 2006
Ai yiiiiii.....