How I do it page 2: the backgrounds

bravo1102 on May 28, 2015

Thanks everyone for reading and commenting. You are the best bunch of readers a creator could hope for. If only there were more of you. Maybe when I manage to do a comic more worthwhile. I am pleased with the graphics it's the script that leaves me cold. It's uneven. Even with all the re-writes and add-ons the tone shifts too much. Or maybe that's a function of the characters. Certain characters set up a certain tone while others are all serious. Or maybe there is just too many of them. I mean I feature every crewman on Surprise at one point or another and show every bit of the ship.
This comic is the first to be totally blue screened since Go a Viking all those years ago and there have plenty of lessons learned getting here. For instance I didn't orignally use a blank background. I thought the pen tool was enough so I shot against whatever was there. When you “thought” you're wrong.

Tune in again Monday for more pain.