Issue 1, page 9
kmajor on March 27, 2009
Been down to the wire the past two weeks, but I'm gettin' it done.
@Stig Hemmer: I guess it is a memory doodle. Hee, thanks.
@Derkomai: Thank you. He's not too important to the story but he should be showing up a fair amount, since he lives with the main character and all.
@curlpop: Thanks. I get lazy with designing a lot of the backgrounds, but since this is Genna's house, and I'm going to have to draw it over and over again I put some work into it. (The floorplan is a bit nuts, but probably no one will notice.)
kmajor at 8:33AM, April 1, 2009
@ShinuZero: Wow, thanks for all the nice comments! As far as my coloring goes, when I first started doing computer coloring, (maybe six years ago, Iunno), I used Julie Dillon's coloring tutorial, which is still up on How to Draw Manga's site. http://www.howtodrawmanga.com/howtodraw/jdillon/cgmain.html So yeah, just use the ole polygonal lasso tool to select the areas point by point, fill 'em in, and there you go. The last couple years I've started playing around with gradients, which I use a lot for the backgrounds, and I sometimes use the brush tool, which isn't as hard as you might think if you have a decent mouse. (Of course, I've been fiddling around with drawing with a computer mouse for about thirteen years, so practice probably helps too. Oh, Oekaki boards. They're good for practicing.)
ShinuZero at 11:45AM, March 31, 2009
Man, you have an awesome art style! It's so consistent it makes me jealous! :[
kmajor at 11:11AM, March 30, 2009
@Hyena H_ll: I'm glad you can tell that's what she's doing! It was really clear in b&w and when I colored the page I worried it got kinda lost. Maps and layouts really are helpful. I still haven't done a street map of Genna's town and I really need to. @Derkomai: I'm still kinda getting the hang of page layouts, (haha, I think I'll be saying that for the next five years), and I'm really trying to keep them simple. (With occasional success.) I like overlapping panels though. Which you've probably noticed. @taradaga: She should be in it a fair amount. Like Trev, she lives with Genna. XD (Also, I like drawing her. Hurr.)
taradaga at 7:30PM, March 28, 2009
Yeah, I sometimes lose track of stuff. And I change location too much to justify maps, I'd just go crazy! Ah well. BUT YES! Lovely page. Love the mother character! Hope to see her more.
The Derkomai at 4:39PM, March 28, 2009
haha, but isn't that part of the fun, Hyena? I love making maps and such. I like the layout for this page, it feels well balanced, and I think the writing is going well thus far.
HyenaHell at 11:48AM, March 28, 2009
Great page, as usual! For some reason, I love the Mom throwing her keys in her purse in that last panel. I think it's the little "mundane" details like that which really add to the art! Ug. I usually have to do layout plans of all my rooms. And I finally made a map, with all the streets/stores/background stuff so I can be consistent with it. It's a pain, but it pays off. ;)